so my dad called me this afternoon, all jazzed about this classic car he found on ebay. being the helpful son that i am, i set him up with an account and started bidding for him on a slick $40k muscle car.

considering that i know nothing about muscle cars, i felt slightly unqualified to be giving him advice. didn’t matter, dad didnt need someone to give him advice, he needed someone willing to pull the forty-thousand-dollar-trigger.

son of a bitch! let me tell you, bidding tens of thousands of dollars in the last minutes of an auction is unlike any of my previous auction experiences which involved one too many close calls while completing my beanie baby collection.

anti-climatically, some guy from podunk, arkansas ended up bidding like a million dollars and now my dad doesnt have to explain to my mom how he managed to spend like forty-grand in the middle of the afternoon on an idle thursday.

so today i learned that being a big-shot-ebay-high-roller takes balls…and like forty-thousand dollars.