Ubersized

On Sunday morning at the DC Show, I was feeling really good about how things were going. I had a lot more money in my pocket than I had when I came, a real rarity for me, and I’d bought everything I’d wanted to buy. Yep, nothing to do but cruise through the rest of the show, right?

Of course, then Rick Fernandez struts by with a Wahl Eversharp set in his hands. He’d just picked it up from someone else that brought it in, and from the minute Rick bought it, he knew he’d sell it to me.

He knew. He didn’t think he might sell it to me, he knew he would. And when I saw it, I knew he would, too. Mike Little, who was sitting next to me, said he got a kick out of the grimace on my face – the look that said I knew was going to spend a lot of money and give back all the gains I’d made over the weekend. It was going to hurt – it was only a question of how much.

Rick wasn’t too easy on me, but he was easier than he could have been. It helped that Cliff Harrington already had one of these. Or three or four of them. So I peeled the agreed price off of my hard-earned wad of cash and knew I was done for the weekend, like the gambler in Vegas who knows the only way he’ll get home is the fifty he’s hidden from himself at the car parked at the airport.

So here it is . . .

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