SERIES 2 TRADING CARDS ARE NOW SOLD OUT!
According to many sources, the Series 2 cards are officially SOLD OUT! The latest reports say that retailers who have already placed orders for the cards WILL still get them, however, reorders may not be possible. Don't panic just yet! Many retailers haven't yet received their orders, so there will be Series 2 cards in stock at several stores over the next few weeks. But be WARNED... they are selling out almost as soon as they arrive! I personally went to a store on Friday and was told that a man came in 20 minutes before I did and bought ALL 6 cases that the store had gotten in earlier that day! <argh!>

I had to share with you this funny story that happened to me. For the past month, I have had a terrible earache for which I couldn't seem to get any relief. I called the doctor about 3 weeks ago and asked her to call me in a prescription for antibiotics since I was sure I had an ear infection. After going through the entire 2 week regimen of the antibiotics, my ear was STILL killing me! So, yesterday I finally broke down and decided to go in to the doctor's office to see if we could figure out what the problem was. She looked in my ear and told me that I had some sort of "foreign body" in there. I was shocked and asked, "Well what is it?" She said, "I'm not sure....it's something shiny....maybe a piece of an earring or glass."  I could not imagine how something could have gotten into my ear! Whatever it was had wedged itself between my eardrum and eustacian tube which blocked my ear from draining properly. She tried to remove it, but it hurt me too bad, so she decided to leave it alone and let it work its way on its own. Well, last night, I decided to take it upon myself to get this "foreign body" out of my ear! I used a bulb syringe (you know the kind we've all used on our kids) and I kept rinsing out my ear with warm water until the elusive object finally came out. When I saw what it was, I laughed until my side hurt! It was a very small piece, (about the size of a pencil eraser) of the shiny wrapping that the Series 1 trading cards come in!  Could I have sucked this paper in when I got those two GOLD cards in a single pack last month and it somehow went up my Eustachian tube to wedge in my ear?   I suppose I will never know how it happened.  Robin@Planetbeans.com

Do you have any amazing stories involving trading cards that you'd like to share with others? Please tell us about them!

3/24/99 (10.00 pm cst.) It has been reported that Series 2 Cards are now SOLD OUT! This has been cited by several different sources and websites as well as certain retailers that I've spoken with this week. These cards only started arriving in stores about two weeks ago and many retailers still don't even have any. So, you better check your local areas and scoop them up while you can...because when they are gone...they are GONE!

TY TRADING CARD COLLECTORS
MAY GO NUTS FOR SERIES TWO
February 26, 1999
"In an exclusive interview, Steve Murphy, new business development manager at Cyrk, Inc., provided details on Series Two of Ty Beanie Babies Collector's Cards to Jacqueline Greenwood, president of the Beanie Babies Collector's Cards Unofficial Club. "Series Two will be even better than Series One!" Mr. Murphy claimed."
http://www.beaniecardclub.com/series2newsflash.htm.