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Monday, September 10, 2012

Antiques

People enjoy going to antique or thrift shops, I do too.  We went to one of does expos in Atlanta on Saturday. There were vendors in the parking lot and we decided to look around and they had beautiful stuff. Remember," other man junk is someone else treasure." Everything was over priced, but as you know sometimes you can make an offer. Well, we finish outside and the place open, right away we enter. My God, I have never seen so many beautiful antiques. I was like a kid at Disney Land, hey I like antiques. 
I was looking for rusty keys that they say are" antiques". One guy show me some keys and started to tell me, that the keys were from a castle in England, and each key was $15. I look at Angela and said: that is too much money for one key. I was amused by this guy,  Bet he thought " There comes a sucker". Wrong, I research books about antiques. Sorry, keep the key, go to England and open the door of the castle.
There were beautiful dinning tables, chairs, rugs, and a million of other things. We started looking at the big pillows with nice pillow cases that were "antiques", the fabric. Angela asked the price of one of the pillows and the lady said: $95. I said to Angela, when you do not see the price is because is very expensive. We kept looking and our children decided they wanted to eat. We had pepperoni pizza, and Angela had some kind of pastry. The pizza was super greasy. We talked for a while and looked at the different things, they had some art. We got separated. Jean-Pierre and Cecilia went to the other building. They sent us a text that they were in the other building, and that we needed to take a bus to get to the other building. So, we took the bus, which took like less than 5 min. to get to the other building. I like the second building best because, it was presented better. Beautiful antiques, new and old things. We decided to check for the keys outside.
 It was this lady vendor and I ask if she had keys, she said: No. But I found two rusty owls. Yes, I bought them. The lady ask me where I was from, I said from Puerto Rico, small world she was from  you guested, P.R. We talk for couple of minutes and I excused myself. I apologized to Angela because I am very friendly and speak to everyone. She said that that was OK. While she had some water melon,
I kept looking. She came back and we look every where. Until, we enter a kiosk because it was raining. Yeah, he had the keys four for six dollars. 
Time to get kids. Angela was texting and calling them. No answer. Prank time! When we got to the first building my son greeted us. I was very serious and told him that Angela pass out and the ambulance came. My son looked at her and she put a sad face. My son hug her. And we said: We were just joking. I found a frame and tried to find someone to get it. I ask three guys standing in a counter talking, Which one of you work in here. A told guy said: Me, and the other ones I supposed. They are my sons. So, I said: I should it ask the old guy. He started laughing, I guess so. One of his son started to laugh. He gave me the frame for $5. The son was puzzled. I like her, he said.