Nothing Quite So Pleasant as SilverRedO with a Pheasant

Hick has been at it again, out rounding up bargains (and FREEbies) for his SUS2.5 (Storage Unit Store 2.5). This time they came from one of his favorite hangouts, a pawn shop on Main Street. One of his buddies runs it. Hick has been saying for a while that it's going out of business. Yet he was over there playing the fake slot machines when I met him in October for our yearly meeting with our financial advisor across the street.

Friday, I suppose it really WAS going out of business. Hick said he had to get over there to see what was left. Is it a bad sign or a good sign for the economy when a pawn shop goes out of business? Are people no longer needing to pawn things? Or have they run out of things to pawn?

Anyhoo... Hick had previously picked up some bargain merchandise that will be good for re-sale. While there, he had seen a pheasant. He really wanted that pheasant, but the buddy said it was not for sale. Who has a going-out-business sale at a pawn shop and then won't sell a pheasant? I really need a lot of questions answered about this experience!

Anyhoo... the buddy had apparently called Hick and told him there was good news and bad news. The bad being that he had another item he knew Hick would really want for his SUS2.5, thus costing Hick more money, so soon after he had made a trip to another pawn shop down in Casino Town, and traded a bunch of silver for the same kind of merchandise. But the good news was that the buddy was going to GIVE Hick the pheasant! For being such a good customer. A little bonus.

There it is, proudly posed on SilverRedO, under the carport. I asked Hick his plans for it.

"I'm going to put it in my shop!"

"Will you sell it?"

"I don't plan to. But if somebody offers me the right price, I will."

"What's your price?"

"At least $100."

"Where did it come from?"

"Somebody shot it, and had it stuffed."

"I KNOW that! But I wondered if there was a story with it. I don't know anybody hunting pheasants around here. It's quail."

"I don't know. Probably from out west somewhere. Maybe the Dakotas."

Hick's concept of "west" is a little different from mine. But technically, the Dakotas ARE west of Missouri.

We'll see how long Hick can hold onto his pheasant...