To top it off, he was also wearing a new belt (his first) that sported a very neat metal buckle - complete with skull and cross bones, and which also held a solid plastic ruby studded sword within easy reach in case an opportunity to plunder just happened to present itself. You'd be amazed at how often that actually happens.
The whole look was very Blonde Beard.
Anyway, as we were roaming the neighborhood post dinner, we stopped into our local independent record store when Lukas decided we needed to play a game of find the treasure. (Treasure can be various things, in case you were wondering. Anything from real coins, to make believe items.) On this night though, he decided we were searching for skulls. SKULLS. Apparently, we needed to find 10 to get ALL the treasure.
"Ooooh, there's one!" he excitedly called out spotting the following album cover:
 |
| Onethorix. Anyone? |
On the way over there, after asking the record guy the way, he looked up and there on a high wall he spotted a large poster version of the album art for the Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville. "That makes 3!" he called over to me.
Once at the metal section we started thumbing our way through the bins to see what we could find. After a few seconds I pulled out a Metallica Greatest Hits CD which raised the count to 5.
A few discs later Lukas pulled out another CD with a skull on it. "Six?" He asked with a puzzled lookon his face as he studied the album cover art.
"Uh, yeah" I responded. "I guess that would qualify. That looks pretty silly doesn't it?" "Yeah", he responded. And as I was looking over realizing we had somehow ventured into the Death Metal section, I was also pulling another disk out of the pile.
I took one look at it, slipped it back down, and decided that maybe it was a good time to move on to something else.
"I think we have found enough Skulls for now buddy." I offered. "How about we look for something else instead? Birds maybe?"
"Yeah, that would be good" he agreed "I have an idea" and was off to another section. When I caught up to him, this is what he was holding up as his found treasure:
"Good One?" He asked. "Yes, it is" I responded with a smile.
No it wasn't a parrot, but this bird was still more the type of plunder I was comfortable with my little Pirate procuring there.
At least for now.
Posts
5 comments:
Hunting for skulls is all fun and games until you find a body in the neighbor's furnace. Just ask the 'Burbs.
@neal - Some of my neighbors would have me wondering. This one in particular has to have some skeletons.
pretty sure you could have found skulls without venturing too far into the metal section. Tired and not enough coffee yet, so I don't have any examples (of course). *shrug* Shifting gears was a better option anyway.
I never had really thought about how many skulls the album covers had on them until you pointed it out. Since my 3-year-old son is all about pirates right now I will definitly remember not to play find the skulls in the music store in the near future.
Aaron
@Daniel - There were probably plenty of skulls in other sections, but I didn't realize we were then in Death Metal. At that point it just seemed like time to shift gears.
@Dadblunders - You might be safe if you stay far enough away from the metal section. Some pretty interesting scenes on some of those album covers. Thanks for stopping by.
Post a Comment