Wednesday 28 November, 2018.
Dear journal,
Today started off in a very unusual manner. It was raining. I got up and prepped myself for work. Due to the torrential Sydney downpour which included a thunderstorm that lasted for quite some time and rainfall that equated to the November average in 2 hours, I decided that today, I wasn't going to catch the train to work knowing full-well that there was going to be public transport chaos - I decided to drive instead. This was the very first time I would drive into work. Despite the weather, the commute was fine, and there was no problem finding a place to park in the building.
The morning was fine, although I tend to think I added a Moccona powder into my coffee as it was fairly strong and not as smooth as I usually make it.
Lunchtime came, and I contemplated eating in as a trip to the shops would be wet, windy and uncomfortable. I re-thought this though as the thought of staying in the office for 8 straight hours would drive me insane. So I found my manhood, picked up my brolley and went to the shops.
The journey was treacherous. The brolley nearly broke half a dozen times due to the strong wind. Let's not even go into what happened when I walked under a long stretch of trees the precise moment a strong breeze decided to pass by. I eventually made it to the shops, wet, cold, and to be frank... pissed off! So I began my usual Hot Wheels raid.
Shop 1: Nothing. As usual. Nothing. I looked and saw a few signs of 2019 cars, however there was nothing there that I didn't already have. No multipacks either. Just basic mainline cards that me and my fellow Hot Wheels comrades are sick of.
Shop 2: I saw some things I liked. Nothing unusual, just new mainline cards that I had not yet acquired. I thought it through after picking up 3, and decided with 2 of them - these were the '69 Talladega, and the '88 CR-X.
Shop 3: I entered this store thinking that I would be lucky to find 2 good picks today. I went around and there didn't appear to be much happening in the 'other' area of diecasts, so thought the Hot Wheels section would leave me feeling disappointed.
Nonetheless, I pressed on, looking through the pegs, moving my head up and down like a madman possessed by the spirit of evil boars, but I looked, and looked, and looked, knowing that the mum’s walking their prams seeing a 30-something year old man who had not yet out-grown his childhood was there, high and low through the series of freshly-stacked-yet-to-be-raided pegs, and saw something that caught my eyes. A card that said '2+2 Fastback' - WOW! It was a '65 Mustang. I didn't have this one yet. Next to that was a '71 Mach 1. Ok now I decided ‘yes I'll take them’ despite being swamped with Mustangs in general. Look journal, I didn't have these 2 and decided to grab them, so please don’t give me a hard time about this.
I continued looking and saw a nice green '71 El Camino. Nice, nice. I didn't have many El Camino's - certainly not that one. So of course I grabbed it. I continued to look through. Something caught my eyes, a car I've been wanting for sometime but hadn't yet seen. 'Thank you' I said as I picked up the '95 Mazra RX-7. My mouth began watering as I saw a Red R33 on the pegs for the first time. The excitement didn't subside when I saw a beautiful R30 as well. I nearly blew a fuse when I saw the merky-green R34 which also joined his R30 and R33 predecessors.
As I decided I had enough and I was satisfied, I saw another R34. Now... not being a greedy so-and-so, I said that I'll leave it for another enthusiast to collect. Then I got to thinking that... perhaps I should pick this up and if someone in my situation who can't find it wants it, maybe I can send it to them. So I picked it up. This R34 looked a little different though...
What happened next? Well...
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Apologies for the illustrated interruption. Now... as I was saying. What happened next? Well... I LOST MY SUPER TREASURE HUNT VIRGINITY BABY
Ok I'm guessing right about now I have just confused the living SHIT out of some people, so I'll elaborate...
Each year, Hot Wheels releases about a dozen types of cars that they classify as "Super Treasure Hunts" and these are cars that are extremely rare, and very hard to collect. They make up 0.02% of the Hot Wheels production line. They are different to the basic car of the same type (as you can see, I have a basic and Super Treasure Hunt R34 skyline). The main differences are the Super has Metalflake paint - which is more valuable. And also has real rubber tyres - and the basic model just has plastic. This baby cost me $2 but if I put it for auction on ebay... it would light up like a Christmas tree
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