20. A Pawn Shop Owner Makes Up His Own Stories To Explain Why He Has So Many Rare Items
It happens to nearly every pawn shop – someone walks in wanting to sell a rare item they found. The story is that they saw the article in an attic or received it from an elderly family member. They are down on their luck and need money for bills.
John Shaw once owned his own pawn shop and came across many people with similar stories. In fact, he often told his customer who looked at rare items in his store the same stories, but not because he received them from someone else. He needed to explain how he brought the articles into his pawn shop.