I’m watching an auction right now….it’s something I want, but don’t need yet, but will need eventually, so I’ve been watching a few auctions. Most of them have gone for way too much – this one though – the price is right – at the moment, but there are 27 minutes left, so that can change in a bit. I’ve learned that bidding too soon is a mistake and only drives the price higher, but so has everyone else. The price just went up by $10…. 16 minutes left. We are all only waiting for the last five minutes and ideally the last minute…if it hasn’t gone past my limit by the last minute, I’ll punch in my highest price and hope that no one else goes higher…but they might…that’s the risk I take, but then, I know what the most I want to pay is, and I only give myself time for one bid – if the pre-last-minute-bids exceed my maximum, than I will watch another auction. And wait…and of course, the rule of whatever that is…oh, Murphy’s Law…says that just before I punch in my last minute winning bid, the internet will cut out, there will be a household emergency, or the power will go off…it happens all the time, or at least we notice when it happens and when it doesn’t we don’t notice but this time, we will all be aware of it – you and me that is….down to 11 minutes now…me and the six people waiting for the last minute are on the edge of our seats for 10 minutes – this is really living – and it’s not like a live auction where a last minute bidder can steal it from you – ebay runs on time, not energy – so we have all learned that if you wait until the end – you might get a bargain but if you bid early, you are screwed and only screwing yourself further…it’s gone up $30 since I started this post…oh, the agony of waiting but the orgasmic thrill of actually being alive every moment as the seconds tick down…this is life (as we know it) this is living (as we know it) this is the thrill of the hunt (as we know it). It’s hard to contain myself, to keep myself for premature ebidulation, I am so excited, oh my goodness….the last time I did this, I got distracted and punched in my final bid two seconds too late and missed the deal of the century…(is my tongue too firmly in my cheek as I write this) but wait, here we are at five minutes and I still have a chance…should I bid now, no wait, wait. Hold back man….these are either real professional masters of self control or maybe I’m the only one watching in this heightened state of excitement….how can they not be bidding? How can I? It’s at the point where I need to just go watch the clock now…you will have to wonder if I won or not…(but the price went up by 300% in the last minute!)
