dear diary (baseball cards) 02/14/2008

dear diary,
normally, it's boys that collect baseball cards or any type of sports cards for that matter. for me, it was baseball and hockey. i had tons growing up. i took care of them. i traded them, bought them, and sold them. but when i was...i don't know...12? i grew out of them. i think most boys do. it's a sign of adult hood. so it came as a shock to me that today at work i was approached by a 40 year old man with an old football card. now mind you, this card was old...very old. he said he bought it for $60, but in "all the card books it's worth like $800". (this is what he tells me). so of course i told him, that if i had an $800 football card, the first place i'd take it is to work where i can lose it. he laughed. but it was the comment i was leading up to that made him tuck his tail between his legs, hang his head and walk away speechless. as he was bragging about his super cool card, i reminded him that normally it's little boys that collect cards of their sports idols, and that when grown men are carrying them around, it's men carrying around pictures of other men. he had nothing else to say.

happy valenTIMES day (don't you hate incorrect diction?)

maynard