[meteorite-list] Meteoritic Misadventure

From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:30 2004
Message-ID: <3D90CED3.DE870739_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Hello All!

I think I should have waited for another of Mark's contests, but, ...
I would like to share this with you. Last night I was watching one
of Philippe Thomas' EBay items - a superb chondritic specimen,
weighing about half a kilogram ... a veritable dream of a regmaglypted
meteorite. One side was showing a rusty brown, weathered fusion crust,
the other half was almost dark and fresh with what looked like flow
lines! ... and those regmaglypts!

Part of the crust was broken away and seemed to show a secondary
crust. Oh boy (and gals :-), how I envy the one who got it !!! In
any case, there I was ... sitting with a stop watch in my hands :-))
(believe it or not) placing my bid amount of US$ 120 in the last
few seconds when I suddenly got an Ebay message with something like
"Having trouble with your bid amount". I had so very much concentrated
on that !*§$! stop watch that should make it possible for me to win that
item that I forgot that other bidders would raise the bidding amount
during the last few seconds ...

:-) :-( :-) :-( :-) :-(

Moral: You can't always win, or:

A stitch in time saves nine (No, not always) ...

No further comments, and, no pun intended,

Bernd
Received on Tue 24 Sep 2002 04:45:07 PM PDT