TennesseeRiverHistory
Cadet
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2018
I thought I’d share a true story that happened to me several years ago as I was out rambling with my father at different flea markets and antique shops in Tennessee.
While in a barn antique store that was so full of old stuff you could barely walk around I noticed a couple in their 60’s come in looking around. The husband goes one way and the wife the other. The wife was one aisle over from me when I see her looking curiously at an old saddle. She asks the store owner about it. He explains, “ why that’s a McClellen saddle. He was a famous general in the civil war!” She thanks him and quickly makes her way over to her husband. Being a little curious about her speed to get to her husband I followed. I was going to tell them that I had seen another one in a nearby shop that was cheaper and in better shape. However, before I could get over to them I overhear her say to her husband in excitement, “ Honey, they have General McClelland’s saddle over there he used in the civil war! We had better go over there and buy it before someone else does!” It was at that point she saw me and gave her husband a look and took him by the hand hurrying over to get the saddle because she looked certain I heard her and would try to beat them to it! As I walked out the door shaking my head I saw them at the register buying it. She just glanced over her shoulder at me kind of smug and smiled. I tipped my hat and walked out with a smile. True story. I couldn’t make this stuff up!
While in a barn antique store that was so full of old stuff you could barely walk around I noticed a couple in their 60’s come in looking around. The husband goes one way and the wife the other. The wife was one aisle over from me when I see her looking curiously at an old saddle. She asks the store owner about it. He explains, “ why that’s a McClellen saddle. He was a famous general in the civil war!” She thanks him and quickly makes her way over to her husband. Being a little curious about her speed to get to her husband I followed. I was going to tell them that I had seen another one in a nearby shop that was cheaper and in better shape. However, before I could get over to them I overhear her say to her husband in excitement, “ Honey, they have General McClelland’s saddle over there he used in the civil war! We had better go over there and buy it before someone else does!” It was at that point she saw me and gave her husband a look and took him by the hand hurrying over to get the saddle because she looked certain I heard her and would try to beat them to it! As I walked out the door shaking my head I saw them at the register buying it. She just glanced over her shoulder at me kind of smug and smiled. I tipped my hat and walked out with a smile. True story. I couldn’t make this stuff up!