There is a tradition of posting "gloats" in another group I read. I haven't seen such here, so I'm starting the tradition with a small gloat.
We went to a garage sale last weekend at a homs where the deceased husband had worked for a railroad. After an enjoyable ten minutes talking about train trips, the widow (not recent) said she'd had some railroad books her husband had saved, but she thought they were all gone. I checked through the table and found a mint condition "Uniform Code of Operating Rules" from 1962.
Every book onthe table was marked 25 cents. I told her it was probably worth more, but she wouldn't take anything but 25 cents.
I think I did pretty good :-).