Trade #4

Here's another student who wanted to trade with me. Let's call him... eh... Bob. :)

Bob is a huge baseball fan. Nice. Just what I was looking for. Now just so you know, Bob understood immediately that other people might want that Riversharks baseball and that I was sure to get offers. But he didn't want to be beaten.

So Bob thought long and hard (not really... he actually made his offer within seconds of seeing the ball) and told me he would give me... a guitar. My reaction? Yeah right, kid. But that's not what I said. On the outside I said "Interesting. I'll think about it."

And Bob was right. I did get other offers. Most were other kinds of sports autographs, but none very interesting... just things like a piece of paper with the name of a guy who played in the majors (baseball) for two months or a football signed by a third string quarterback. Truth be told, I really wasn't interested in another sport thing b/c I didn't want to limit my audience. Thankfully, there was Bob.

Sure enough he soon came into school with a guitar. And it was nice. Had a case too. I didn't even think about it. We made our trade that day... but not before I asked him why. Bob explained that A) he was a big baseball fan and knew that a ball signed by a whole team... even a minor league team... was special. He also explained that B) if any one of those 22 players made it to the big leagues, he will have essentially stolen from me. And finally he said that C) he had 6 guitars at home and this was his oldest/smallest (it was a 3/4 sized "child's" guitar).

Again with the logic.

My next trade ended up taking a while. And not for a lack of offers, either. Check out my next post to find out why. In the meantime, enjoy the look on Bob's face as he flaunts his team-signed baseball.

From a paperclip to a guitar in four trades. I think this was the point where I realized that this whole trading thing actually had something to it. Thanks Bob, for being a part of the story.