Just a bit of it
IN a stunning moment of self-awareness, I’ve realised that when the gods of the auction hunt are with me my mood is upbeat and I smile as I write. Conversely, when those same gods thwart me – and that is as often because there is nothing I want to buy that month as me then being outbid (again) – my mood darkens and I wonder why I bother to study auctions only to come away empty handed. I’m in such a mood right now and this month’s grievance is ‘bits’ – both the way that a much-needed ‘bit’ tends to cost significantly more as a single item than it does when sold as part of a whole and, second, auctioneers’ infuriating trick of lumping together ‘bits’ and selling them as expensive job lots when I only want one item and not the rest. It drives me demented. Just as it is doubtless meant to.
Exhibit 1 for the prosecution was 11
