Beowulf
Villa Crawl Contestant
I have a little story to tell y'all about something that happened this weekend. As some of you may have read, I go to a lot of yard sales and auctions and buy a lot of old clubs to tinker with and some to put on Ebay. On Saturday morning, on my way to work I stopped at a yard sale. Inside the garage, the lady had two sets of clubs for sale. One was an old set of Wilson LT 1200 for $40. and the other was a mixed bag with a few spaldings, northwesterns and such for $20. I asked her if she would do both for $35 She countered with $40 and I said sure. As I was getting the money out I noticed a newer looking bag with the rain hood on behind her table. I said what about those, are they for sale. She said, everything had a price, what would I give her for them. I opened the hood and about passed out. There was an immaculate set of Burners(1.0) and an R11 driver. I said to her, tell me how much and I will see if I can do it. She rolls her eyes somewhat and says $100 bucks for all three bags. I said "deal" and dropped 5 twenties and ran to my truck with my booty!
Now here is where it gets funny. I was only supposed to work Sat & Sun, and planned on getting my NIKE irons out Mon, Tues... and so on. Well, we had some one call in sick so I ended up working Mon and Tues as well. 12 hour shifts no golf. Wed. I had an appointment to close on a property so I knew that the earliest was going to be Thursday for golf. But in all that time, I began to think about the incredible "steal" I had found. Thing is, I began to wonder if the woman knew what she was doing. Were they her clubs to sell? I had a hundred stories go through my head as to why someone would sell a thousand dollars worth of clubs for a hundred bucks. Well Wednesday evening, I loaded the TM up and went back to that house to see if things were legit. A man answered the door and I introduced myself and started to ask him if he played golf when this woman inside went ballistic screaming "That's Him, That's the Guy That Bought your clubs!! The man looked at me and asked what he could do for me. I told him if he wanted to give me back $60 bucks, I would be more than happy to let him have back his R11 and burners. He peeled off 3 twenties nearly as fast as I had peeled the original 5. He actually got choked up when I returned the set, invited me to play at his club(his treat) invited to eat dinner with them that night (I passed) And insisted that I take the other $40 back as well and keep the old clubs. I didn't take the money, but on my drive home, I gotta tell ya, I felt like a Million Dollars. It was the right thing to do!
Now here is where it gets funny. I was only supposed to work Sat & Sun, and planned on getting my NIKE irons out Mon, Tues... and so on. Well, we had some one call in sick so I ended up working Mon and Tues as well. 12 hour shifts no golf. Wed. I had an appointment to close on a property so I knew that the earliest was going to be Thursday for golf. But in all that time, I began to think about the incredible "steal" I had found. Thing is, I began to wonder if the woman knew what she was doing. Were they her clubs to sell? I had a hundred stories go through my head as to why someone would sell a thousand dollars worth of clubs for a hundred bucks. Well Wednesday evening, I loaded the TM up and went back to that house to see if things were legit. A man answered the door and I introduced myself and started to ask him if he played golf when this woman inside went ballistic screaming "That's Him, That's the Guy That Bought your clubs!! The man looked at me and asked what he could do for me. I told him if he wanted to give me back $60 bucks, I would be more than happy to let him have back his R11 and burners. He peeled off 3 twenties nearly as fast as I had peeled the original 5. He actually got choked up when I returned the set, invited me to play at his club(his treat) invited to eat dinner with them that night (I passed) And insisted that I take the other $40 back as well and keep the old clubs. I didn't take the money, but on my drive home, I gotta tell ya, I felt like a Million Dollars. It was the right thing to do!