04.27
So there I am, walking through Target, minding my own business, when something catches my attention out of the corner of my eye. I took a closer look at this mysterious object…
It was a box of trading cards, with some kind of iguana or something on the cover. Confused, I picked the box up and looked at the reverse side…
Here I learned that they were hockey cards. Hockey cards, with history and animal cards mixed in, or something. I was confused, and my brainmeat started to hurt at this point. I put the box down and quickly left the store in search of the closes Guinness. A few days later, I returned, and that box was still there. Seeing the $19.99 price tag, I quickly put the box down once again, however thanks to the egging on of my friends, and the cash they quickly put into my hands, I purchased the box.
We stood around my desk, and opened the mysterious box. Inside we found 12 packages of cards, just as the box described. Each one with the weird lizard thing on the front.
We quickly tore into these packages like hungry lions at an all you can eat gazelle buffet. The first pack I picked up only had one card in it. I was a bit disappointed, but then a gain, it was a Penguin (one of three I got) so I guess I was OK with it.
They were all mostly just normal hockey cards. I say mostly, because most of the packs also contained these smaller cards that I learned are called tobacco cards. They contained such fanciful things as Pink Lady’s Slipper, Tuomo Ruutu, and Gyrfalcon
After looking online, I find that I actually got the short end of the stick when it came to these little cards. According to Puck Junk you can get autographs, pieces of jersey’s, and apparently even fossils. Does this mean that I will buy more in the hopes of getting a fossil? No, probably not. I was seriously let down by the amount of “WTF” that was actually in the box as opposed to what was being shown on the outside…