Be Careful What You Bid For....

(Herewith follows an erudite and pithy cautionary tale from the venerable Mr James Stewart.  Heed him well, and be sure to follow his adventures at www.croymusicmisellany.com - it will make you brainier and sexier and everyone will think you're cool.)

Be careful what you bid for…

We’ve all been there in the past, you know, drunk at a charity night and bidding for something in the hope some fudd will outbid you. This perennially backfiring piece of bravado just leaves you with just one problem; the fudd is usually yourself.

Andrew Jones has neither drunkenness nor charity as an excuse for tabling a winning bid for a five-tonne Maglev magnetic levitation transporter. Or, for dullards, the wee sky bus thingy that was used at Birmingham Airport.

Jones bid £100 on eBay, clearly missing the button that said ‘are you sure?’ Luckily some other rocket offered £25,000. Unluckily said rocket failed to complete the deal.

So, old Jones, an ex-engineer at Rolls Royce where over-priced products are common place, is left with a £100 bus thing that he can do, well, fuck all with. He doesn’t even have space for it at home and is currently hawking it round museums, brothels and shanty towns, dying for someone to take it off him. And I’d hate to think what the delivery costs were!

Let that be a lesson to you. Don’t bid for giant artifacts on eBay, you may just win them.