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The Pec Thing was this weekend, so Mom and I went to see what bargains we could find. I managed a pretty good haul this year. I found, among other things, 11 issues of New Mutants v.1 which brings that part of my collection up to 15 issues (and merits it its own folder in my Comics Box). I was also able to lay my hands on a few books, including two of the Oz books (Emerald City and Lost Princess) and the hardback picture book of The Muppets Take Manhattan. I'm probably going to be doing a bit of scanning of that last one, so that I have pictures for my Scooter website.

For the first time in the four/five years that Mom and I have been going to this thing, we were semi-witnesses to someone actually breaking merchandise. It was a china cup or saucer or something that fell on the floor. And what was funny about it was immediately afterwards, as if on cue, most of the shoppers in the building where it happened let out a collective "ohhhhh". The vendor at the booth I was standing next to said of the breaking china, "That didn't sound like a watch."

And I saw the strangest thing at the flea market today: someone had driven a school bus to the Pec Thing. But this wasn't your regular, run-of-the-mill yellow school bus. Whoever owned this thing had sawed off the top half of the roof, removed all of the seats in the rear half, nailed up boards on three sides but left the back and top open, and painted the entire thing silver. It looked like a homemade, half-assed pick-up truck.

It's only a week until my friend's wedding. And I don't have her wedding gift yet, nor do I have my toast as maid of honor written.

*insert high-pitched shriek of terror/anxiety here*

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The Pec Thing was this weekend, so Mom and I went to see what bargains we could find. I managed a pretty good haul this year. I found, among other things, 11 issues of New Mutants v.1 which brings that part of my collection up to 15 issues (and merits it its own folder in my Comics Box). I was also able to lay my hands on a few books, including two of the Oz books (Emerald City and Lost Princess) and the hardback picture book of The Muppets Take Manhattan. I'm probably going to be doing a bit of scanning of that last one, so that I have pictures for my Scooter website.

For the first time in the four/five years that Mom and I have been going to this thing, we were semi-witnesses to someone actually breaking merchandise. It was a china cup or saucer or something that fell on the floor. And what was funny about it was immediately afterwards, as if on cue, most of the shoppers in the building where it happened let out a collective "ohhhhh". The vendor at the booth I was standing next to said of the breaking china, "That didn't sound like a watch."

And I saw the strangest thing at the flea market today: someone had driven a school bus to the Pec Thing. But this wasn't your regular, run-of-the-mill yellow school bus. Whoever owned this thing had sawed off the top half of the roof, removed all of the seats in the rear half, nailed up boards on three sides but left the back and top open, and painted the entire thing silver. It looked like a homemade, half-assed pick-up truck.

It's only a week until my friend's wedding. And I don't have her wedding gift yet, nor do I have my toast as maid of honor written.

*insert high-pitched shriek of terror/anxiety here*