ok so I was bidding in an all night phone auction- I had a colleague/friend who was buying half ownership on the lots that we won. It is easier for me to stay up until six in the morning than to get up at six in the morning so I was the chosen one to do the actual bidding. On top of this, I had a competitor who was sharing some lots with me.

At around 4:30 in the morning I was told that a major lot had closed and that it was mine. At that point, I noticed that my competitor had been outbid on a different lot that he was going after and so MY STUPID good deed was to call him at home, wake him up and give him the opportunity to place another bid on that lot he was about to lose. Well he thanked me and then proceeded to not only win that lot, but outbid me on the lot that I was already awarded! Wait it gets better, the person running the auction is someone that I had been very good to also.

He was a down on his luck type and one day he came to me and said that he could make some money (which he really needed) on a huge collection of comic books if I would loan him $5,000. I did and less than a week later he phoned me in a panic saying that he had made a terrible mistake buying the collection and panic sold all of it for less than $400. What a bit of magic turning my 5 grand into four hundred in less than a week.

Well now he was the one running the auction and he let my competitor top my bid on a lot that had been knocked down to me already. Now I was calling and waking my partner to tell him the bad news about the whole debacle and his wife (another story) got all up in arms for getting called late. Now I was fighting with the guy running the auction, my partner's wife, my competitor who I helped and would not concede the lot that I had won earlier in the night and my own demons for not just looking after my own ass!