This past weekend I visited my local card store in Altamonte Springs, FL. I was there to purchase a few magnetic cases for the UD Glass cards I’ve slowly been accumulating.

As I was leaving I said to myself, “Oh I need to take a picture with my new case and UD Glass card (pictured here)”. I stood center in the store and brought the card out of my backpack. This peeked interest with other patrons. A guy yelled “What do you have?”. I replied “nothing special”. He was absolutely blown away that I had a Caron Butler UD Glass auto in my hand. He asked if I collected Butler and shared how he recently picked up a Caron Butler Upper Deck Sweet Shot Signature shots for a few bucks. This sparked a huge conversation as I was looking to purchase a Sebastian Telfair from the same set earlier in the day. Over 25 minutes of us rattling off older sets and player names some have definitely never heard of. Essentially playing trivia with each other on early 2000’s NBA. We both had to go our separate ways stating a similar reason of “my wife will be mad I spent too much time at the card store”.

This is what collecting sports cards and what the hobby is all about.