Alan and I have become auction nerds. They only come around every few weeks or so, so it's not anything that we can become obsessed with. Anyway, there's an auction this morning and I'm excited. It's even more fun when you're actually bidding, but I can be entertained by just sitting and watching, too. The auctioneers have their own language, like the phrase above. No need to have all the words in the sentence, just the necessary ones.
But the real fun is when you bid and you WIN - cool! It's like you outsmarted everyone, but really you were just willing to pay more for one man's junk. The smart people though are the ones running the place. They know how to get people to come back by making them feel important. They'll reserve seats for you up front with your name on them. They make you your own special laminated paddle with your name and bidder number on it, and when they see you coming in, they start digging for your paddle. I'm so easy to please. Just be nice and friendly, and I'll buy that old beat-up chair and shoebox of doilies.
3 comments:
Maybe there will be an auction next time we are in town. Sounds like fun!!! Hope you find some treasures.
Sounds like a fun way to shop.. that extra spin on things that makes things interesting.
I bought an old blue rocking chair for the backporch for $15. Normally something like that would have gone for $30 at least. Alan bought a box of foreign money for $10. Why you ask? Hmmm...don't know. :-) And he bought four 35 mm cameras for $10 total. We didn't even stay for the whole thing this time - figured we'd spent enough and I had more important shopping to do at the mall.
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