Donneybrook
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This thread is great. So many new ideas to try on the little kids
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most kids are polite and fun to talk to and explain what i am doing to, but sometimes boys in the 9 to 12 year range can be a real pain.
once while detecting a large tot lot ( and having great success ) a car pulls up and out piles 4 or 5 kids and their mother. they all pretty much ignored me except the oldest boy. Maybe 12 or 13. not wanting to go trough the usual question and answer session, i did my best to ignore and avoid him. But he continued to follow me at a safe distance and seemed very intent on everything i did.
When they were all getting in the car to leave i saw him speak briefly to his mother and then he came running back to me and handed me a quarter and said
"here mister i hope this helps" and he ran back to the car and left!
I put that clad quarter in a cardboard protector and i will never spend it. Helps my perspective.
HH Ed in co.
Funny stuff people!
I also remember a friend of ours telling us that while he was detecting a beach in Canada, there was a group of kids following him around and burying cans in his path.
Anybody ever have clad tossed at ya? Sometimes I get the feeling people drop coins purposely when they see me detecting.
I've had more than one kid, after watching me for a while, ask what keeps the coil floating above the ground.
Kids have seen me out detecting & maybe noticed the pennies I dig up are different colors. Perhaps they thought I preferred them that way. And they've noticed me testing my various detectors in the back yard & not finding anything. So what did they do? Spread a roll of pennies around the back yard, after they *painted* them! HH, George (MN)
I got a nice dime/quarter signal 3'' deep. Problem was, there was a dog turd right on the top. I still wonder what was in that plug
Yep, that has happened a few times, if they are being super obnoxous, I tell them quit being so cheap, and throw down some 50 cent pieces or silver and gold. They usually look startled.