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Gold, Tacos While You Wait

So I'm walking south of 4th Street toward Midtown with my radio head set on, thinking deep thoughts last night, when I saw a sign. It blazed above the pavement -- yellow and then red. The yellow part at the corner of 4th & Hattie said: "We buy gold top dollar." And the red sign: "We have tacos." As I tried to figure how the messages on the rotating sign related to each other and subsequent ones, I noticed the Tacos Los Ranchos food stand in the corner of a lot shared with a pawn shop (in the old Subway). I checked to see if any neo-Nazis were skulking about the food stand. Seeing none, I walked off still musing about the strange juxtaposition of the two messages. You had to be there. (SR file photo, for illustrative purposes)

Question: What have you bought at a pawn shop?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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