To know then what I know now.

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Wouldn't it be nice to be able to go back in time. I have been in the Pawn business in some capacity now for about 25 years. I say in some capacity, because back then I was going to college & working part time for my 2 brothers in their shop. Back then, I was just getting into buying guns & wasn't really into revolvers. I definately remember at least on one occasion us loaning on a registered magnum & it coming out for sale. Man oh man to be able to go back in time.

Chris
 
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Wouldn't it be nice to be able to go back in time. I have been in the Pawn business in some capacity now for about 25 years. I say in some capacity, because back then I was going to college & working part time for my 2 brothers in their shop. Back then, I was just getting into buying guns & wasn't really into revolvers. I definately remember at least on one occasion us loaning on a registered magnum & it coming out for sale. Man oh man to be able to go back in time.

Chris
 
And don't you wish that you could know today what you will know next year. If you had next weeks paper you could get very rich.
 
Originally posted by Klondike:
And don't you wish that you could know today what you will know next year. If you had next weeks paper you could get very rich.

YEP, ain't that the truth.

Chris
 
I wished I had one of those sports almanacs like they had in "Back to the Future II". I could retire and buy all the guns and ammo I could ever want.
 
Originally posted by gunsmith11:
I have a cyrstal ball for sale

That would be the best Karma ever.
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Chris
 
I went to get it,,now I dont know where it is..Chit,,,,ok I am looking for it,,,oh where are you loving and loyal ball
 
Chris
I too worked in pawn shops for a few years
Our specialty (mine) was guns so they naturally gravitated to us. My main memory of a Smith was a MINT Triple Lock Target that I traded into for about $200 and sold for $700 thinking I cut a fat hog.
 
Originally posted by 29aholic:
Chris
I too worked in pawn shops for a few years
Our specialty (mine) was guns so they naturally gravitated to us. My main memory of a Smith was a MINT Triple Lock Target that I traded into for about $200 and sold for $700 thinking I cut a fat hog.

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WOW

We don't see good ole S&W's anymore. Every once & awhile we get a model 19 or a model 10, but not much else. Lots of Cobra's, Hi Points, Taurus & Ruger's though.

Chris
 
I did learn one thing about a pawn shop...if you are patient it will eventually walk through the door (may be a loooooong wait)
 
I would like to go back to the day that Microsoft went public....
 
My uncle came back from the war and built this junk yard in the late 40s and 50s. He had a day job and it was just aq hobby. He was a batchlor and I was his pet. Wish we just would have kept it and left it alone!

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thinking I cut a fat hog.


In the spirit of this thread..."going back in time", I just had to laugh when I read that. Haven't said that in years.

Hmmm, just might have to bring that one back. My daughter dearly loves all the dorky things I come up with.
 
I often have the "wish I could go back and do it all over" thought, but have to remind myself of the quote from Billy Bob Thornton in some movie:
"Wish in one hand and sh-t in the other and see which one fills up first."
 
It would be nice in many ways, but I wouldn't want to go back *too* early. Ignorance and innocence can be bliss after all, and money can't buy that.
 
Sure if you could zoom in and out at will. I havent forgot the outhouses in wisconsin in winter, or sitting in the storm celler in the hot humid summer panting for air before air conditioning, or haveing to lay under 60 pounds of old family overcoats in my unheated upstairs bedroom in 25 below winter nights! Carrying water before we had plumbing etc. That was in the 40s and early 50s. What was it like all over before that?
I do highly miss the family I had then, the hunting and fishing that was less restricted, and more land available to hunt.
Never saw a drug of anykind in high school, no grafitti, didnt have to lock everything down. No long lines, nobody panicing because kids are out plinking etc.
The cars were far more interesting, it seemed we had more fun with simpler events, you didnt have to have the state of art to fish, hunt, shoot, or for every sport there is. Local stock car races were just old tuned junkers, not million dollar cars. To this day I claim that we had better singers in the local church than these multi millionnair "stars" now!
We had better TV programs with 2 channels than I get on sattelight now!
I dont know if its me, but the wommen now days are sexier and the guys are dorks and wimps in comparison.
 
Originally posted by xoxoTA:
I would like to go back to the day that Microsoft went public....

I have a younger cousin who during high school worked for Bill Gates. My Uncle thought that his son was pretty stupid because Mr. Gates gave him mainly stock instead of cash. I will never forget the call to my mother from my aunt who had just opened up a statement showing that this dumb kid at 22 years old owned 5 million dollars of Microsoft. For once my Uncle was speechless.
Dumb kid still works for Mr. Gates.
 

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