No single sticker got me hooked. I liked the whole concept....here's how it happened...
I saw from a distance an odd thing stuck to a thin sign post...maybe a no parking sign...and walked up to it... it was a Mop and Glop.
Huh? what a cool sticker... but who would put such a sticker here in the middle of nowhere?...and why?...and where do you get them? I mean who would make such an odd sticker? I left befuddled and walked away wondering about that sticker.
A couple few weeks later...maybe a month or so later I was in a corner store and the Chinese proprietor tells me about funny products and asks if I got them. Huh? he say stickers. I mean this guy is trying to sell me something and I don't understand. He shows me a package still trying to explain. 'Funny products'. I don't get it but he talks me into buying one pack... OK it's just 5 cents. I leave with my unopened pack and thinking I got suckered into wasting a nickle. I almost threw the package into the garbage unopened...I mean the wrapper was just so dull... I assumed whatever was inside was just as dull. ....then I thought... well I paid a nickle for it I might as well see what's inside...though my heart just wasn't in it.
when I opened it My eyes lit up! It's those stickers! I don't know what ones were in the package, but I saw the checklist and I went back in the store and bought all I could. That was series 8. I completed the set in a week or so. a few weeks later I go back in that store and the Chinese guy talks about the stickers and I say 'I got them all' and he say no...different ones. ? OK I buy one pack... 9Th series! and off I go. and the group home parents give me grief for throwing money away...I say in reply you and those guys spend money on smokes. Well that's because we need them. I scratch my head...? I get in trouble for wasting my money on wackies but they can burn their money on smokes.
Trying to find earlier series someone at school said he has a bunch I could have. well I go to his place and he cleans out the bottom of a drawer and gave me what would be nearly every sticker from series 1-7. but no checklists! I think every rare sticker was in there. I recall Bum Chex, Chokewagon, Big Muck. both versions of spit and spill were in there. Odd I can remember all that, but I do. When I left that group home I handed the stickers in the pile to a friend and said gimme a dollar. he never did, but took the stickers. Why did I let him have them you ask? I didn't think I'd ever find the checklists! Stupid. He probably still has them.