This pan cel went up on eBay in June 2001, and I
just didn't have the funds to compete for it,
though I lovingly downloaded the scanned image so
I could look at it every so often and dream.
Fourteen months later the buyer put it up for
sale privately, and, to my amazement, I had the
money to get it. But when I read the
announcement, it had already been up for a couple
of hours. So I assumed that it was long gone,
logged off, and went downstairs to do chores. In
the middle of the chores, I said, "Ya dam' fool!"
and dropped everything to dash upstairs, log on
again, and put in my order. And so... |