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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 856419, member: 56&quot;]I&#039;ve told this story before, but here it is again:</p><p>I once almost bought a car at an auction. Almost.</p><p>I was at an auction barn out in the sticks with my father. I didn&#039;t have a car at the time and was looking for one. The auction was indoors, the usual mishmash of stuff, nothing of any particular interest, when the auctioneer put up for sale a car that was out in the yard. He wanted $1000 for some land yacht of a thing I hadn&#039;t even laid eyes on. My father suggested I bid. I told him I hadn&#039;t seen it and asked him if he really thought bidding was a good idea. He said sure, so I bid. He hadn&#039;t seen it either. I had the complete attention of everyone. After a very long pause, the auctioneer very quietly asked if anyone would bid $1100. There was a deafening silence, but after another, infinitely long pause someone else bid. I think it was one of the auctioneer&#039;s assistants. That auctioneer spent a good fifteen minutes trying to get me to go to $1200, but enough was enough and I did not buy the car. I saw the car when we left the auction. I looked for it specifically. It might have got $50 from a junker.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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