I'm always on the lookout for cards especially in places where they probably shouldn't be...like Best Buy...on my drive to Wisconsin this week, I stopped in Ellsworth, IA for some gas. The station in Ellsworth is attached to a Subway so I figured two-birds-one-stone. I would say this particular Subway is the cultural center of the surrounding thirty miles and the line for a sub was the longest I'd ever seen at a Subway...I headed over to the other side of the gas station which is called a "Kum & Go"...please, hold your snickering...So right there between the Kum & Go sweatshirts and the Des Moines tourist guides sits a handful of football, baseball, and...wait for it...High School the Musical cards.
A closer view:
So is this the worst card display ever? It's bad, but they get major points for having current sets. There could easily have been 2007 Topps Series 2 sitting there collecting dust. What's the oddest place you've ever found cards for sale?
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There's a stack of cards in it for you if you send me one. I'm a size medium.
HILARIOUS!
Seriously.
and Beardy... a medium? Really? *snicker*
Mind you, this was not at the register, but in an AISLE of home improvement goods.
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Weirdest place to find baseball cards, eh? Ok, I think I was a freshman in college or something and on one of my holiday breaks I found myself out with my mom and grandmother antiquing. I don't know, man, I didn't have a car back then. What was I supposed to do.
So I'm tagging along with them looking at furniture and crap and at one of the stores I found an old Cadaco Baseball Game, the one with the spinners and player discs. This version was one of them with the player pictures on the discs so I bought it. My mom and grandmother were like, "Only you could find baseball stuff here". I was actually the only one who bought something that day if I remember correctly.