Car Auction Today

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Went to a car auction today in Brisbane and I finally done it. I made a bid. Been to many car auctions with my dad at Tottenham in Melbourne where they used to sell all the Government cars. Used to think my Dad was as cool as a cucumber when bidding. No big deal, No problems. I tried it once at a building supplies Auction and I froze, couldn't raise my arm. Since that day I've only ever bid on E-bay. Got Quite good at that I might add, but your hiding behind a monitor so it's easy. Anyway been looking at a Landcruiser Ute for my young bloke for a couple of weeks now. Decided to take a 2 hour drive down to Eagle Farm which is only 80ks from home. Luckily we left early. ( How do you buggers drive in peak hour traffic, day in day out beats me ) Checked out the vehicle, very happy with it, took the young bloke and his mate down with me ( which I shouldn't of ). Young bloke all excited, kept asking me how high I would go. I had a figure in mind, I had registered to bid, got the number 1313 ( was that an omen ? ) . Ute came in to be bid on, Started getting nervous, felt the urge to pee, Then I thought " C'mon, don't be a skirt " The first bid on the ute was what I thought I would bid up to..... oh bugger.....Then the young bloke looked up at me, so feeling guilty I got the courage up to put in a bid a little higher. Well, then the problems started...After finally getting the dutch courage to put my hand up to bid, I couldn't put the bloody thing down. It was between me and another fella. My e-bay mentality kicked in, I'm going to win this at any cost, so I bid, he bid, I bid he bid, some clown on the internet bid...............the more I bid the more excited my boy got..............finally I won the auction and only went over what I was prepared to spend by $4600.00. Still got a very good buy and I am happy, boy is estatic and wifey say's all I'll be getting is hallway sex for a long long time...................