My absolute FAVORITE story was a dude who bought a set of cocktail table legs off eBay from me. He rocked up to my place, saw the 5 - 6 machines all lined up and started to tell me some utter bulltish that his Uncle "was the first person in australia to own pinball machines and put them in shops and make money from them". So this guy was telling me, "He started the entire industry".. "The first machines he had were in the city in the late 1970's and by the mid 1980's he was a huge millionaire". I asked this tosser what his Uncle's name was - and I'd never heard of him.

As this dude was walking out to his car, he aksed me "So how did you get into pinball ?"
So I said, "my Dad used to be an operator".
He said " oh yea, how long ago was this ?"

I paused for a second, and replied ;

"My old man brought his first containers from the USA in the 1950's, While your uncle was still in primary school"  

He never bothered to give me any feedback on the cocktail legs  

Thats a CRACKER of a story Nino  i just KNEW you would have some good stories to tell