Wasted day.
Drive down in wind driven heavy rain. Took me almost 2x as long as usual to get there. (4-1/2 hours) cost me $10 to drive In the gate. Another $30 for 2 of us to walk in the building. Another $17 for 3 food items. A pretzel ( my wife wanted) an order of fries for the 2 yo grandson and a fountain pop for all 3 of us to share. Plus a whole tank of gas there and back. That's before I looked at my first booth of for sale items. Plenty of vendors but not as many spectators for Friday as we're there last year.
$40 just to get you in the door is nothing short of ridiculous.
I bought 1 item, a steering column for a stick shift 80s truck. There were 3 among different sellers, didn't buy the 1st one, said I'd look around. Asking $150 and looked like it had been thru a war.
I bought the 2nd one for $50 and it was in much better shape than the first one. Then I saw one of our members here in the other building that had one there but since I'd already bought the one I did I didn't even ask him how much. But I was wishing I'd have seen his first (or even 2nd) or I'd have bought his instead of the one that I did. Then the drive home in a snowstorm.
At least I ran into less construction and accidents in the way home vs on the way there.
