Does your GF/wife get better pack pulls than you?

my wife was already a football fan when we started dating, so it wasn't too hard for me to get her to enjoy busting boxes. Whenever we went to shows we would each end up getting our own box. I can remember one particular show years ago we ended up with 2 boxes of Ultra. Her auto pull....Edgerrin James....my auto pull....Who knows, he didn't make the team out of training camp.
Here is my favorite example though...we were both big fans of Lord of the Rings, and we each got 2 boxes while the movies were hot.
My two auto pulls...Faramir
and Gollum. Gollum was good, but one of the higher print run autos.
Her two auto pulls...Aragorn (viggo mortenson) and Sauramon (Christopher Lee). Both in the top three for sale prices back then.
Her best PC pull...Hines Ward auto/jersey /86
My best PC pull...Jerome Bettis random parallel /25
Plus, she pulled our greatest GU pull...Jim Thorpe.
For the most part, the trends above occured about 80-90% we both bought boxes
This pretty much explains why I no longer spend more than $150 yearly on boxes anymore.
Anyone else have the similar experiences/problem?
Here is my favorite example though...we were both big fans of Lord of the Rings, and we each got 2 boxes while the movies were hot.
My two auto pulls...Faramir

Her two auto pulls...Aragorn (viggo mortenson) and Sauramon (Christopher Lee). Both in the top three for sale prices back then.
Her best PC pull...Hines Ward auto/jersey /86
My best PC pull...Jerome Bettis random parallel /25
Plus, she pulled our greatest GU pull...Jim Thorpe.
For the most part, the trends above occured about 80-90% we both bought boxes
This pretty much explains why I no longer spend more than $150 yearly on boxes anymore.
Anyone else have the similar experiences/problem?
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Ron beat me to it.
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<< <i>Yes there are some things she pulls better than me.
Ron >>
<< <i>She could care less about sports or sprortscards. >>
Same here.
Collecting:
- Post War baseball HOF RC's
- 1980's unopened baseball
- All Mutoscope and American Beauties
girlfriend / mistress - better than me
Chris
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'61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
Cardinal T206 cards
Adam Wainwright GU Jersey
I'm trying to think of anything else. Oh yeah, back when I was opening '90's packs I think it was '93 or '94 Topps baseball, she would always find the Black Gold cards or the Redemptions that I was trying to collect. It's weird man. I mean seriously, we'll walk into a hobby shop and she'll tell the owner that she wants like the 3rd box down from the stack closest to the wall. We'll get it home and she'll crack it open and she'll pick out the packs she wants to open and sure enough, she'll find something really awesome and I'll get some crappy rookie no name. It's very strange.
<< <i>Seeing the title of this thread I knew where it was HEADing. Don't we all have a little Beavis and Butthead inside our brains!? >>
I hoped that since I said pack pulls instead of just pulls that it may avoid that fate. Obviously didnt work.
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<< <i>Yesterday she picked up a box of Donruss Americana and found a Travolta Proof 10/25 set worn shirt piece. >>
I thought you were broke and selling everything?
<< <i>Dude, lay off, every time I say anything you come up and have some criticism. >>
I honestly cant ever remember addressing you before this, unless you imagined it in Guru-land.
<< <i>If you must know they were on sale at Wal-Mart for $5 yesterday. >>
Wow, for a whole box? Can you pick me up a few boxes?
Again, I'm sorry. I went back to edit. I extremely apologize. Sorry.
If your wife tries to cheer you up thats cool, just say she spent $20 on you. Don't bring this $5 on sale at Wal-Mart story here. If you bring BS to the table here, be ready to get called on it- but atleast you didn't bet anything on it.
Listen guys, I can't handle this today. Maybe if I would have had a better day for a better life I could. But not today. It's bringing way too much anxiety on me. I didn't realize I was going to have to start scanning reciepts and crap here. I just come here to escape sometimes.
Unfortunately you are being a jerk and calling me and my wife a liar and saying I BS is crossing the line. But hey thanks. I've got some other words I'd like to say and use, but unlike a lot of guys here, I'll refrain from doing that to hold on to some integrity.
I've bought stuff thats mislabled at the store for significantly less than what it's "supposed to cost" maybe someone scored a deal.
Sorry your having a bad day bud. Happens to the best of us sometimes.
You have to take what's said here with a grain of salt. There's a line in the movie Roadhouse that says "what if someone calls my momma a whore?" and Patrick Swayze answers, "is she?" Another cpmparison I can give you is that if someone on these boards called me stupid I wouldn't care, but if Albert Einstein called me stupid I'd be crushed. Do you understand?
All I did was ask you a question. I was actually hoping that your answer was going to be a happy one like "no, things turned around for me, and I dont have to sell off my collection", but instead you jumped to a conclusion that I was picking on you, which is something I have no history of doing. You're like a fragile mouse trap waiting to snap shut. Also saying things like you want to put a bullet in your head portrays you in a very negative light. Minus the drama you seem like a decent guy with a wife that cares for him a great deal. Do you really want to put a bullet in your head and leave her all alone? Shut the computer, have a nice dinner with your wife, and just lighten up man.
Steve
Today was a day of hell for me too , couldn't wait for it to end and come home and see what was new here .
Try listening to some mellow music , music always seems to mellow me out after a bad day , It can't be anything fast paced though .
F-W-I-W , I have also picked up $19.95 boxes that were marked $9.95 , Happens all the time , people that mark em are human and they have a bad day too .
As far as the old lady pickin better cards than me and my son ?
Ah ha ha ha ha , ALL THE TIME !
It is pretty much unbelievable , but it is what it is .
I'm convinced , it's no Ruth auto card or anything but she has way better luck than I do by far .