“Probably we should throw it out so it doesn’t get caught in a lawnmower when they mow.”
“Oh, good idea,” she said. She picked up the metal detector and moved it across the ground. “I expected it to be a lot easier to find stuff I wanted. I didn’t think about stuff I didn’t want.”
“Well that is half the fun of finding things,” he said.
“I’ll trust you on that.” Deborah swept the metal detector back and forth and suddenly it began to beep louder than it had with the nail. “Oh I found something.”
Dave smiled when he saw where she had detected metal.
“Does it read through concrete?” she asked. “Too bad we can’t dig underneath there without damaging the sidewalk.”
“It will certainly do that,” said Dave, “especially since it is reading the rebar inside the sidewalk.”
Deborah felt herself blush. “Oh.” She hadn’t thought of that.