It's winter, I have a preschooler, so it is expected that we will all be sick around here (we are). On a trip to Rite-Aid last night, I was buying a bunch of stuff for the family -- Baby Tylenol for the infant, toothpaste for the 4-year-old, and unmentionables for the wife. As I was heading to checkout, I said, let me see if there is anything I should get for myself.
This Rite-Aid does not have a card aisle. It has a "card section" which consists of whatever will fit on 4 little hangers below the Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Right now that is 2013 Topps Update baseball and various Panini football rack packs. I'm not much of an impulse purchaser, but I saw the 2013 Topps Update and figured that splurging on a $2 pack would be fun. Maybe I'd get a Royal! I didn't have any of the 2013 Update yet, so no dupes...
I grabbed it, checked out, took it home, treated the kiddo, then settled down to see if I got anything good.
First - Chris Getz -- a
Royal! casualty of the offseason priorities.
Then, I noticed that the remaining stack felt thick and fairly firm. What's that in here????
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| 2013 Topps Update - Yu Darvish - All-Star Stiches Relic Card |
That's surprising! So I guess I made the right choice on that pack. :-) This is only the 2nd-time I have ever pulled a retail hit, and my first time from a Topps product. It's got good colors, and even though I don't collect the Rangers, I think I'm gonna keep it as a reminder to always be selfish when at the store....errr......rather as a reminder of my good fortune.
