Just sharing a friends story

[MoonDawg]

Please finish!  Ray and I here in So. Calif were also sending her e-mails.  It was several days before she e-mailed back.  She said she had someone coming over on Sunday afternoon, and if we wanted to see it......we would have to come at the same time.  Think maybe she wanted us to start a bidding war?
        Also we want to hear about that 81 missing the coin door.
        Welcome to the group Tony!

[davethebirdman]

Glen

I think you might be right. When it was posted here and you and joey picked up on it she must have started rubbing her hands together. Guess you can't blame her.

Buy low sell high...

[MoonDawg]

Most of us Californians must have been sleeping. The find of the century...... and it was pointed out to us by our friend in England!  '>    Thanks Dave

[Eric]

Boring us?!!!? Look up my Easter 56 story!
It took 3 months to get that 56.... but what a rush hauling it home!
We love stories of the find and the pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep 'em coming!

[VEND-O-MATIC]

...ok...so the second email I send her is asking her for a phone number that I could reach her at....because I was VERY interested. I also included ALL of my phone numbers (I was throwing the whole tackle box in the water.....lures and all...  praying that she would bite on anything).  So she sends me back a lukewarm message telling me that she won't be available this weekend and I would have to wait UNTIL NEXT WEEKEND (at this time, I'm now doing the pee pee dance in front of my computer).

I then sent her a reply and not trying to sound like a beggar with no meat left on my knees, I simply told her that I was afraid she would sell it before I could see it. She then sent me back a very pleasant message that said "Tony, you are first on the list for the machine!" but at this time I still don't have a phone number or address!

Wanna hear more or am I talking too much?

Tony

[Eric]

Dude... you're killing us..... finish up and post more pics! '>

[halehouse]

Why do people do that?  Post something for sale and then you're not available?  Not emailing back with details?  '>

[SIGNGUY]

Cmon.... where is the rest of the story... this is like a 3 part mini series... leaving us on a cliffhanger at the end of each show!!!  more more more....

[bubba]

Tony must be a woman '> No guy would not keep us hanging this long... '>

[VEND-O-MATIC]

ok...be nice. My girlfriend is at work reading this stuff (found her on Craigslist too).

So the lady says I have to wait a week. No Problemo....I'll just keep my mind on other things like baseball stats and the NFL draft in the meantime. The following Thursday evening she sends me an email that reads:

"If you're still interested in the RC Cola machine, I have another person coming out this Sunday, 7/16, to look at it.  I plan to be home between 12 noon and 2 p.m. for folks to look at it.  Let me know if you're still interested and I can send you directions (and my telephone number) to my home in Petaluma.
 
The first person with $5,000 cash gets to take it home!  Need it out of the garage.  Price is somewhat flexible..."

Am I still interested? Is a bullfrog waterproof? She didn't leave me with too many choices (other folks coming to look at it too? Nooo way!!!) and then she places my brain in a blender by telling me that the price is "somewhat flexible."

What would you have done?  Probably the same thing that I did. I emailed her back and told her: "I WILL BE THE FIRST PERSON WITH THE $5000 CASH"

I had decided to not take any chances because it didn't take me long to convince myself that I'd probably never have the chance to grab a Royal Crown 81 ever again. Then 'BINGO', she emails me back with two phone numbers and her address. Now at least I have a place to land and two phone numbers. One number was her work phone, and the other was her home...but the beast still isn't hog-tied in the bed of my truck yet! The next morning at about 9 A.M. (Friday morning) I put on my best poker face and place a call to her work number and finally I got a live person! She was really nice and easy to talk to. I told her that It had been a long search to find this machine and I was trying to dot the i's and cross the T's over the phone as if I had already handed her the moola. I told her that I would surely be there Sunday morning at noon and she said she looked forward to seeing me. I didn't dare put the thought in her head to ask if someone else might be showing up too....because I didn't want a bidding war on my hands!  My gameplan left me guessing if SOMEONE ELSE WOULD BE COMING TOO. That was the chance I had to take!

Sunday morning finally arrives and my truck is all polished up for the kill. Just as I was jumping on the freeway, I attempted to place a call to her home number but I got that loser that tells you that "The number you are trying to reach is unavailable". Hmmm Musta dialed the wrong#. I'll try again in a few minutes. Maybe it's a poor cell site. Next attempt, same loser again! Can't be the wrong number because I had already talked to her. Now I'm getting close to San Fran. I try her number again......but wait, I only talked to her on her work phone! Ok....keep your head Tony.... it was no big deal.....until I took the wrong offramp in San Francisco. Now I'm losing time trying to find my way to the Golden Gate. NOW I'M RUNNING LATE. Now every Freakazoid in San Francisco is either taking 10 minutes to cross the street in front of me, or the car ahead has only three gears.....SLOW...SLOWER....AND REVERSE.  So I place a call to my girlfriend and have her check the number on the email address. She tried to place a call from my house to her home to tell her I'm running late....and she's gettin' a fast busy signal! OH NO....SOMEBODY MIGHT GET THERE BEFORE ME AND SHE GAVE ME THE WRONG NUMBER TO HER HOUSE AND I"M GOING TO BE LATE!

Sorry Bubba.....you gave me a woman headache....I tell the rest later....
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