I never realized how much I am like my father until yesterday.
Dad has been looking for a truck for…close to a month now. With the Internet, this makes it an almost insane task since you are bombarded with so many choices.
He bit the bullet and picked up one down south in Campbellford. To do this, he hopped on a bus to Cochrane, took the train down to Toronto. Spent the night in Ajax with his sister then they drove him out to Campbellford and he bought the truck, then drove it back to Kapuskasing.
Whoa. That’s quite the trip for a vehicle.
But, I can say that I would do the same thing for something I had my eye on. I enjoy the hunt. The adventure for something. That’s half the fun!
I remember collecting the Matrix action figures a few years back and Benoit, Claude and I were always on the hunt for this super rare ‘Twin 2’ action figure. I ended up finding one via Benoit in a pawn shop but had to buy the entire lot of action figures (which I already owned) but ended up selling them to Benoit who didn’t have them yet. Was it silly? Sure, it’s an action figure! But the hunt for Twin 2 was amazing. I remember Claude telling me awhile after when he realized that he didn’t even really care about the action figures that he enjoyed the search for them more.
Anyhow, I’m glad to see that Dad and I have the same ambition when it comes to the hunt.