My dastardly wife and I just laid a goof of a time bomb
To be clear, my use of the words "time bomb" has nothing to do with explosives. In this context, a time bomb is a gag that one sets up but will probably never know if the goof pays off. You lay the trap and walk away. Maybe it hits. Maybe not. It doesn't matter if you know what happens. Of course, there are occasions when a spoof has huge results.
My wife's late husband had a collection of "Chinese coins" that he had bought from street vendors in New York City. He had also collected a significant number of Spanish silver eight reales that turned out to be worth a significant amount of money. As expected, it turned out that the "Chinese coins" were worthless.
They were stored in an Italian wine box so I devised a time bomb.
We went to an Atlantic Ocean beach area that is popular among tourists since it was a famous pirate's haunt, (I can't tell you where it is because...). After the Sun had set, we walked onto the beach and trudged about 200 yards from the beach ramp. I dug a hole in the sand, we tossed several handfuls of coins around the area and I buried the box, containing the rest of the coins, with a corner of the box sticking out of the sand hoping that it would be discovered.
Since there are many myths about pirate treasure on this island, we hope to spring a prank on someone, just for fun.
This amuses me and I've had a few good laughs. Am I a bad person?
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OK ... but if I were the finder, I'd be a little dubious as to how they got there.
Still, it is a good joke on someone.
