The Best $100 You Ever Spent

[bonehed]

My Russ Cook EBay score! Album HERE

 

[pipesmokingtom]

A good multi-tool really becomes indispensable. I could see how that $100 bucks really stretches on an item like that. Same goes for a good pocket knife.

 

[mso489]

Probably one of the gifts for my wife, although that covers a lot of different gifts more and less than $100. On the exact amount, it might be a check I wrote when I was a vet counselor in the 1970s working mostly on GI Bill education benefits on a campus. Mostly between the other vets and me, we could shake loose the benefits in time to pay off their landlords, the electric company, the tuition, etc. But one man was in a terrible spot going to school, and his wife seriously ill, and I just wrote him a check, sent it to his home, and told him it had nothing to do with his benefits, which we eventually got going. FYI vets, the worst prevalent cause of non-delivery of checks was misplacing and forgetting the file number, and people who tried to use their social security number when they still had one of the old VA numbers. Translated into the present, bureaucratic detail. Sometimes guys started out angry with me; then I'd sit down and write them a hair-raising complaint memo for their signature, and they liked me some better. The other best hundred bucks have been fees to adopt rescue animals. While the biggest lie in the English language is the two words "free kitten," the hundred bucks I've put toward several fur friends has repaid many times in companionship, amusement, and to my mind intellectual stimulation -- they don't talk, but they perpetually think and communicate -- ears, eyes, tail, posture, vocalization, gait, etc.

 

[ssjones]

The best $100 pipe investment to this point is a Jack Howell "Passion for Pipes" Comoys replica. (I have the matching smooth pipe, but it was significantly more).

 

[drezz01]

The Haynes manual for my 07 Triumph Bonneville -- it's saved me hundreds in labour costs and taught me quite a bit along the way! And I still have $60 left over :lol:

 

[ssjones]

Factory Shop manuals are always worth their weight in gold! (drezz01 - do you need a set of pins for valve shim adjustment for a Bonneville?)

 

[pipesmokingtom]

My coffee press is another one I thought of. It wasn't NEAR $100 but it gets used daily, sometimes more than once, and the enjoyment it's given me is worth many times what I payed for it. And that's with wal mart coffee.

 

[layinpipe]

Do hookers count?

 

[warren]

I don't know from experience but, I understand that most hookers can count currency and most all of them know the current exchange rates.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

I roll my eyes at everyone who has said "hookers"! I roll them! Here I am, trying to start a feel-good thread about things we value in our lives and you HAVE to talk about prostitutes.... sheesh.
Besides, $100 isn't nearly enough for a decent hooker. Even here in Reno.

 

[warren]

Phuket, Thailand?

 

[pipesmokingtom]

I defer to anyone who's been there....

 

[warren]

Back in the day 100USD would get you a couple of top flight performers. And booze! I forgot to mention the booze.

 

[sablebrush52]

Here I am, trying to start a feel-good thread about things we value in our lives and you HAVE to talk about prostitutes.... sheesh.

Exactly. "feel-good" "hooker" Don't you see the connection?

 

[pipesmokingtom]

Yeah. Yeah, I get it.

 

[realfloopyguy]

A WW2 Mosin Nagant and 440 rounds of ammo were $100 not so long ago. It is what got me into collecting rifles. Definitely the best $100 I spent.

 

[layinpipe]

Exactly. "feel-good" "hooker" Don't you see the connection?

Thank you, Sable! I was simply making sure that these fine business women of the night were included in the $100 thread!
Tom, my mom's lived in Vegas for 20 years, so i like to think that i know that city pretty well. You can find a pretty good "wood worker" if you look hard enough, say North Vegas...Freemont Street? I bet Reno is the same way, besides i saw plenty of hookers on Reno 911 and that's a real show, Right? Lol. :rofl:

 

[layinpipe]

I don't know from experience but, I understand that most hookers can count currency and most all of them know the current exchange rates.

Nice one, Warren. I think you are giving them quite a lot credit, as i believe their "daddy's" as they call them, deal with the exchange rates and general counting of payments for services rendered. :lol:

 

[warren]

Most of the transactions I observed when I was a copper were "pimpless." The lady of the night handled, as it were, the entire transactions. However, if you are using hotel staff to do your procuring a "tip" might be in order for the desk clerk or bellman.
edit: some of the ladies are quite adroit with financial concerns.

 

[rottingcorpse]

+1

I don't know from experience but, I understand that most hookers can count currency and most all of them know the current exchange rates.

Pipe-wise, my IMP cost $120 on sale. It's my best smoker by far, and it's coloring uniquely and quickly.