Thread: A log of my updates on my '32 Brookville highboy

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Well, since we've got to tread water on the upholstery, I'll toss out a slight diversion. Your weekly flower arrangement deal brought to mind a somewhat humorous event from many moons ago. We had gone to one of those charity events; banquet, dancing, and of course the seemingly mandatory auctions, both silent and live. This one was for Muscular Dystrophy. As these things go they like to start them off with a bang and as a result there will often be lively bidding to get the juices flowing. The first item up on the live auction was..................a flower arrangement per week for a year! The bidding started out at something like $100, and before you knew it it was down to two bidders going back and forth, back and forth. The crowd was abuzz as the high bid gradually moved up in increments of 100, then 500 dollars. Ended up somewhere around $8000. One of the two combatants was a local commercial real estate developer, the other, some guy named Bill Gates.........................Gates won.

You travel in a high roller crowd!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

....One of the two combatants was a local commercial real estate developer, the other, some guy named Bill Gates.........................Gates won. You travel in a high roller crowd!

Uncle Bob (or I should say Mr Parmenter, Sir!), I'd say that YOU travel in a high roller crowd!! Most of us can't say we've been in the same room with Bill & Melinda Gates (I assume he brought his wife), but YOU'VE had dinner with them!!!