I met an old fella (about mid 50's) in the toys shelves (the story isn't going like THAT ok so stay tuned) and we got chatting about TFs.
I mentioned that I was suprised at his age and therefore was unlikely to be into the characters and the cartoon. He said he appreciated the design aspects of them as figures and then proceeded to wow me with the most incedible collection in the world. Mainly because I was testing him with some of the rarer and not so well known in english speaking countries (Victory Saber, Star COnvoy etc etc.) TF names and he seemed to have them all apparently. Then a Japanese student showed up (he was doing a home stay with the guy), I did a brief intro and chat to him in Japanese, scaring him slightly, evidently he hadn't come across many Jap sepaking aussies. He was kind enough, but his face said that he thought the "toy" hobby was a little strange.
He then mentioned that he was going to sell them in the Sunday Times and I should keep an eye out for it.
Being the kind of no bulltwang kind of guy I am, I felt the need to mention that I thought the Sunday times (or as I call it Sunday Slimes) is a complete rag not worthy to wipe my bottom and I wouldn't waste $1.50 to buy it, so it would be better for him to list them on ebay or another paper.
Never heard anything about the sale, but I sure would have liked to have a look at his.....
collection....
Nice enough guy though.
Usually my experiences are helping people who don't know the child in question very well choose toys. I once helped a woman decide which Lord of the rings toys to buy a kid as there were no TFs around (which is usually my first choice ).
Often started by them asking me to get something off the top shelf.
A curse of being taller than people. Know where I am coming from ey tall-ys?
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Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy
quite often in fact.....
