AlexD
Well-Known Member
Here we meet Dan. Dan lives in a small town, and lives a common life just like many others. Dan loves old bottles, he collects them and has strong feelings about them. He can't explain why he likes them so much, something about them. There's so many of them to get. One day, Dan found the perfect bottle. It's mint condition, worth around $1,200 for sale on eBay listed as "Old ____ bottle" for $25 and is ending in 6 days, 23 hours from now. Dan gets a minor shock though his body. He message the seller and offers them $100 for it up front. The seller just wants to see how the auction will go (basically turns down Dan's offer politely with no good reason). Likewise, Dan politely, inside his head, says "d***it". The seller has like 5 feedback and found the bottle in his attic and has no idea what it is. So Dan waits the whole 6 days, worrying every hour since if he'll miss the auction. Finally almost a week later, it gets down to the last few minutes of the auction. There's 20 seconds left now. Dan's worrying his internet will go out and he'll get outbid. He worries the very second he gets outbid, the connection will time out. Suddenly, with 15 seconds left, the screen goes from green to red. Dan's been outbid! He frantically tries to move up his bid. He's nearly paralyzed in fear. There's only 10 seconds left now. There's this unexplainable deep, cold, empty feeling inside Dan's body and he's panicking more than ever. Suddenly, Dan is now up! The auction is at $35! Then, just as quickly, with only 7 seconds left, the screen goes back to red. Shockingly, it's all over now for Dan. He has lost the bottle he thought he'd never get, the whole week of worries and those last few exhausting seconds. It's over. It's gone... ... ... ...
~Based on a true story []
~Based on a true story []