I finally asked the guy at the Sacramento flea market why he had 47 wooden spoons in one box
Stopped at a booth near the fairgrounds last month and this older man named Ray had a whole milk crate of mismatched spoons marked 25 cents each. I asked if he was a collector and he said no, his ex wife used to throw one at him every fight and he kept every single one as a scoreboard. I bought three just to be polite and he threw in a cracked one for free, said it was the last one she ever aimed at him.