dca2
Junior Member
Yesterday afternoon, around 4:00pm, I was hunting a curb strip in my neighborhood. The houses are from mostly 1920-1930's. One house (1934) has a historic live oak whose branches covers the entire front yard, travels between 2 houses and ends up in the back yard-mostly at ground level. Really neat. As a kid we would walk there from school to see the tree (1978). I figured there must be stuff in the strip.
As I am closing a plug, the neighbor (80+ female) walks up and asks me what I'm doing in her neighbor's yard. I told her I'm metal detecting the city right of ways in my neighborhood and looking for old coins, toys, and artifacts as a hobby. She says "I forgot about that, the city does own all this grass. Have you found anything neat?" I showed her the scraps of metal and an old matchbox car. She was genuinely interested so I showed her the 1943D nickle (my 1st one!) I just pulled out of the plug I was closing. She asked about other places I hunt and we talked about the parks and playgrounds. I showed her my trash bucket and she called me the "city's unknown hero!" I gave her my card and went back to detecting.
The owner of the house with the tree came out, again an older lady, and we had almost the same discussion, I gave her my card, told her if I could ever help to give me a call. 5 minutes later she comes out and asks if my detector was a good one. I said it's decent and she brought me to her back yard to look for her deceased husband's wedding band, lost over 5 years ago. Unfortunately, it was not recovered, but she was very glad that I helped.
She belongs to an amateur archaeology/history buff group and said I should give a talk. I said the handful of coins would bore them, but if I find some really neat stuff, I'll get back to her.
No BS from me, a genuine conversation, and I've got the 2 old ladies on one street looking forward to seeing me in the neighborhood!
Thanks for letting me share,
Dave
As I am closing a plug, the neighbor (80+ female) walks up and asks me what I'm doing in her neighbor's yard. I told her I'm metal detecting the city right of ways in my neighborhood and looking for old coins, toys, and artifacts as a hobby. She says "I forgot about that, the city does own all this grass. Have you found anything neat?" I showed her the scraps of metal and an old matchbox car. She was genuinely interested so I showed her the 1943D nickle (my 1st one!) I just pulled out of the plug I was closing. She asked about other places I hunt and we talked about the parks and playgrounds. I showed her my trash bucket and she called me the "city's unknown hero!" I gave her my card and went back to detecting.
The owner of the house with the tree came out, again an older lady, and we had almost the same discussion, I gave her my card, told her if I could ever help to give me a call. 5 minutes later she comes out and asks if my detector was a good one. I said it's decent and she brought me to her back yard to look for her deceased husband's wedding band, lost over 5 years ago. Unfortunately, it was not recovered, but she was very glad that I helped.
She belongs to an amateur archaeology/history buff group and said I should give a talk. I said the handful of coins would bore them, but if I find some really neat stuff, I'll get back to her.
No BS from me, a genuine conversation, and I've got the 2 old ladies on one street looking forward to seeing me in the neighborhood!
Thanks for letting me share,
Dave