Jeremy Herndon

Tomorrow we will be heading back to work after a most pleasant Labor Day nice and long three day holiday weekend. We couldn’t have asked for better weather and most people spent as much time as they could enjoying it. I guess today was officially the last day of summer, sigh……

This has been a most pleasant Labor Day three day weekend holiday. You just couldn’t ask for better weather, and the weather can make or break your holidays, so we lucked out big time with the temperatures in the high 70′s with a cool breeze every now and then.

There is one flea market I went to today that is open each Saturday and Sunday, all year round, along with the few Mondays that are legal holidays such as today as well as the 4th of July and Memorial Day. It’s a big flea market and it takes time to walk around and take it all in. Most of the vendors there are friendly and I enjoy spending the day visiting them all, checking out their wares and to their tales, business and personal issues alike.

Dan has been selling media products there for as long as I can remember. He has a permanent booth, over flowing with old records, of all speeds, 8 tracks, cassettes, DVD’s, CD’s and Video Games up the wazoo. But he always has this one display case that he keeps his real treasures tucked away in, his silver and gold pieces.  There is a lot of buying and selling of silver and golds these past few years and he wants his hands in the kettle along with everyone else’s.

So Dan spent a good 45 minutes or so telling me all about what he has been learning online about his newest interest which is all about bullion. He is researching the best way to buy gold bullion and using the Internet to his advantage with so many options out there these days for things such as this. Like I said, he kept my attention for almost an hour and then I’m sure my eyes were starting to glaze over at this point with the key words,”buy bullion” and “gold bullion” being repeated over and over. I’d had enough and wanted to move on to the tables and booths that I hadn’t seen yet, the clock was ticking and there was still so much that I wanted to see.

I’m thankful for the customer that came in just in time to distract him in an effort to make a sale and I bid him a quick farewell and got myself out of there. Dan is a great guy but my goodness he would ramble on for hours, non stop and quick like if he had his way!