I think you guys must have created this thread knowing that I'd find it at some point, since I have some horrifying ones, from the 70s AND 90s...
- Always kept the first copy of each Wacky I got for each series, with only 1 checklist, and ditched or traded any brand-new extras (which worked in my favor for getting Grime Heavy... and I suppose I should at least be glad I kept my 1-16 run -- shy of about 50 stickers -- from when I was a kid as so many got thrown out or stuck on Peachee's).
- Used to frequent the actual supply WAREHOUSE that the Ice-Cream vendors bought their stock at to load up on wholesale-priced gum, candy, and drinks -- we were like the Little Rascals on my street & did full on backyard carnivals and fully-stocked snack-stands rather than just lemonade. All that time, I could have probably bought stacks of full Wacky boxes if I'd looked on that isle. It wasn't until 1977 when I started buying full boxes of Star Wars cards, assembling sets and selling them to this old dude at a comic-book shop down the road that I realized you could get the cards, too. Not sure if they had 16th series Wackys at the time... but I'd moved on to StarWars, so it wasn't on my radar. (Yah... almost worse than not buying Bitcoin in 2011 when I researched it... or since.)
- Kept my full set of 24 Wacky posters (which thankfully included the hard 3), but used to have multiples of Toadal, Cheapios, and Weakies taped to the wall with masking tape, that later got trashed.
- Found a huge box of Wacky wooden plaques at Pic-n-Save as a kid for 19¢ each... and bought 2. Kept them. But also kept the memory of seeing a whole freaking box of dozens of them.
- Had the fleeting opportunity to purchase the original art to Hopeless Snowballs (one of my faves), but only if I also bought Drowny & Jungle & Lumps... and since I didn't have the available cash for the lot, made the mistake of asking, "how much for just Hopeless and Drowny"? CLICK.
- And some of you will remember this one... Accidentally sending an email to a collector friend, complaining fairly colorfully about how a newly discovered Wacky contact in England had treated me in a deal (UK and Irish Wackys were my specialty at the time, and I'd FINALLY made contact with THE main collector/dealer there)... not realizing I hit "REPLY ALL" when forwarding the original message. I was new to that particular email platform... needless to say, I totally F'ed that rare connection, and it took me years to patch things up.
I'm very glad this thread wasn't about 'stock market' horror-stories, because those top my Wacky ones. Remember "Badluck Shleprock"?