One of the reasons for asking the
question in that manner is that a
friend of mine had a goodly amount
of money tied up in gold bars.
His wife of 35+ years had packed up
and left out of the blue, and IIRC
had gathered up their cash assets
as well. He put most of his income
into gold after that and stashed it
in a safe.
I asked him several different times
how he expected to utilize the gold
after whatever kind of event happened
to come about, but it always seemed
to po him, and not knowing if the
query dredged up ill feelings about
his ex wife or exactly what, so I let it go
