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Originally Posted by Dottore
I'm down at my garage today when my neighbour pulls up with his pick up truck full of boxes from the hardware store. He opens his garage, and I see that it is stuffed to the rafters with more of the same boxes.
"WTF?" I ask.
Turns out he's discovered that you can buy copper scouring pads at Home Hardware and Costco for less than the price of copper - and he's hoarding this stuff waiting for the price of copper to rise still further. (Seems it's $4.00 +/- a pound now, and one of these ten-packs from Home Hardware also weighs in at a pound but only costs $2.49 - and sometimes less.)
The things people do. This guy is one of the brightest guys I know, but smokes far too much reefer and has never done a serious days work in his life. In the early '80's he was peripherally implicated in a plot to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and did some time, but since then he's just been cruising. Almost cornered the mustard seed market once and made a bundle.
But copper scouring pads?
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That's about what I would expect from a pot head.