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"Here’s my story…
About 20 years ago or so, I was at a Salvation Army auction one morning. They
were selling of tons (literally) of junk they’d had donated to them over the
last few years or so; stuff that wasn’t easily sold in their actual stores. A
lot of it was good stuff, too.
One thing that immediately caught my eye was a pallet (6′ high, 4′ wide X 4′
wide) of nothing but boxed up hardcover books. I looked through some of the
books in the top boxes and realized that there were some very old, and often
valuable, books in this boxes. I decided I’d bid on it a bit and see where it
goes.
The auctioneer kept bringing up lot after lot, but not the pallet of books. I
was getting impatient by the time the morning wore on. Finally, when he’d
pretty much sold everything that was in the yard back there that morning, he
brought up the pallet of books. There was only a small crowd of folks left by
then (about 20 or so). He described the contents of the pallet briefly by
saying, “Here you go, folks… a bunch of books”.
He looked around at the faces in the crowd and said, “I’m opening the bidding
at one dollar.” I about shit myself. I bid the $1 immediately to get things
rolling. Well, after I bid, he looked around and said, “Once, twice, sold that
man there for $1.” I just laughed… and wondered how the Hell I was going to get
this pallet home and what I was going to do with all those books."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
