So the rain basically dug it up for you and you still had to spot it in the mud? That's not really "the rain did most of the work," that's you getting lucky with where you were walking. I've seen people with metal detectors spend six hours finding bottle caps and here you are with a coin from a plowed field. What's the actual ID on it though, like who's on the face and what year? Because a crusty bronze that turns out to be a 4th century nummus is cool but it's not exactly rare. Half the fields around Bath must be full of that stuff from the Roman baths crowd.

Fifty pages of suffering before you bail sounds like a hostage situation, not a reading habit.

Sounds like that guy just wanted someone to blame for bad sales. A 20% drop in a quarter could be anything, maybe his food sucks or he raised prices or a new competitor opened up nearby. I ran a small shop for years and yeah parking matters but its not the whole ballgame. Plenty of busy places have terrible parking and people still show up. The pizza place pulling his customers with those 12 spots seems like a stretch too. Did he actually show you numbers or was it just a sob story to get you to boot the pizza guys?