Trade #9-b

This... is Bob.  No, really.  This guy's name actually is Bob.  Yeah, thought you'd like that.  Bob is married to Emma, and together they have a daughter, Lauren.  Lauren is in high school and has a new Wii system with all sorts of gaming possibilities.  Bob & Emma have been wanting to get Lauren a gaming chair to celebrate her general awesomeness, but they had a problem: gaming chairs aren't in season. Confused?  Don't worry, so was I when Emma told me that.  But apparently, they just aren't in stores right now.  Now I, for one, would have thought the long cold winter would be the perfect time to sell things that give people reason to sit inside for hours on end, but it seems that New Jersey store proprieters disagree.  Good thing there's Craigslist.  That's where Emma saw my ad.

Before Emma emailed me, I had recieved three offers to steal purchase the gaming chair from me already, but for some reason I felt these weren't the right prices people.  So, I waited.  And then Emma emailed wondering if the chair was still available.  She said she'd give me my asking price.  Sweet.  And sweet for Emma & Bob too.  They got this chair at about half the store price plus they didn't have to wait until spring.  (Or is summer gaming chair season?) As you can see in this pic, Lauren's as happy as a kid who's recently acquired a gaming chair to better enjoy her Wii system.  Yep.  That's exactly how happy she is. 

Now Bob's a cool guy.  His house is filled with music equipment and memorobilia.  It's all good stuff too like racks of guitars, a well-used drum set, and a life-sized poster of the King of Pop.  And records.  Lots and lots of classic vinyl.  Emma's equally cool for letting her husband surround the family with stuff like that plus she knows where to get St. Patty's Day Frog Cupcakes (sold only one day a year), which is right up my wife's alley.  Lauren, of course, is in high school and is cool by default.  So all in all, this is a family of cool, and when I told them about Kyle MacDonald & his paperclip trades, they smiled and shook their heads in happy disbelief like so many of the rest of us did, plus they started looking around the house for unwanted paperclips.  That's cool too.

I didn't get an afternoon with Alice Cooper for the gaming chair like Kyle had at one point (Bob raised his eyebrows at that little trade, as you might imagine), but I did get a hundred bucks.  Couple that with the $110 from the ipod, and I'm officially better off than I was with the xbox, and I still have a paintball gun and a serious audio editing program to go.  If you're interested in either, let me know.  If you're just interested in what happens, shoot me an email and I'll be sure to shoot one back the next time I make a trade and update this blog.  Until next time, thanks for reading, and please take a moment to check out my wife's cakes on my "links" section of the sidebar.