My Newly Acquired Jean Beliveau Table Hockey Game

If you are about to read this post, may I kindly suggest that you read my post titled My Jean Beliveau Table Hockey Game dated Monday, December 18, 2006 first as it will help you better understand what I have posted below.

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Well, guess what! I found one! I found myself a vintage Jean Beliveau Table Hockey game!

About a week ago, as I do on a weekly basis, I searched eBay to see if I could track down a vintage Jean Beliveau Table Hockey game. To my surprise, one showed up on the auction block. Due to past weekly lack of success, I really didn’t expect to see one and the only reason I was carrying out the search was basically merely out of habit. To my surprise, one showed up. I had to look twice to make sure that I wasn’t dreaming or hallucinating but sure enough, there it was…right under my nose … well, almost! I had yet to own it since the auction didn’t end for another four days.

For the next few days, all I could think of was gaining possession of this “toy” (“yes,” I am 46 years old!) and I was willing to pay almost anything for it... Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration but you get the idea. I was going to make sure that the same thing didn't happen as the last time where I forgot to bid for it. This time I was hell bent to not be left on the sideline of losers!

Anyways… let’s move forward. The day had come and I set my cell phone alarm for the time of the auction. I was prepared...I was most definitely prepared! The time wound down to five minutes… four minutes… three miutes…two… one… At this point, I set my stopwatch for the last sixty seconds and when it got down to fifteen seconds my finger was on my mouse ready to submit my bid with a few seconds to go. 10 seconds… 9 seconds…8 seconds. At 7 seconds, I clicked in my bid and won by $1.00. Had I bid less than what I had bid, I would have lost and I would have been totally upset… but that was not to be the case today. I was no longer a sideline loser… I was a champion!

Anyways…enough of the play-by-play. Needless to say, I am in a good mood today as my newly coveted Jean Beliveau Hockey game arrived at my door.

Now, talking about sideline losers, I am not going to report to you about my other auctions other than I was not too happy about them but the satisfaction of my Jean Beliveau Table Hockey game win made all the other auctions I lost pale in comparison!