Had new wheel fever.

[Larry C Leung]

Glad I don't regularly scan E-bay. I think I'd be even broker than I
already am.

LL - NY '89 200Q, payed for....

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 06:41:30 -0500 "Roger M. Woodbury"
<rmwoodbury at downeast.net> writes:
>Yesterday, while surfing through Ebay, I noticed some BBS wheels for
>Audi
>for auction.  They were (are) 17X8s, and suddenly I was in the midst
>of an
>attack of "new wheel fever".
>
>"Spoked, BBS wheels:  look REALLLY sharp on the V8", I thought.
>Feverishly,
>I looked up the appropriate size tire that might work.  Priced new
>tires.....
>
>Now, bear in mind that the tires on my V8 were about a month old and I
>doubt
>that they had more than a thousand miles on them.  They are Pirellis,
>and so
>far, seem to do very well in Maine's intriguing weather....clear,
>rain,
>snow, fifty degrees to zero degrees....and that is just before
>lunch....
>
>And the "Buy them Now" o[ption was there, too!  All for less than
>$800
>bucks.  What's not to like?
>
>Then the grinch sneaked into my consciousness.  The last time that I
>had an
>attack of "new-something fever", I convinced myself that that BMW
>coupe on
>Ebay was fated to be mine.  Oh, that was ok, but it turned out to be
>not
>quite as good as I had hoped, and the timing was wrong, wrong,
>wrong.....
>
>"You said that you were NOT going to impulse buy anything for a
>while," the
>Grinch said.
>
>"Yeah, yeah, right.  But these are BBS WHEELS, and look at the
>price!"
>
>"You said that you were NOT going to impulse buy anything for a
>while," the
>Grinch probed.
>
>"Yeah, yeah, right.  But these big wheels would look SOOOO cool on the
>V8,
>AND next I could get Big Reds, and...."
>
>"AND?" the Grinch growled, scowling at me.
>
>"I think I'll go and lie down for a while.  Maybe the fever will
>pass", I
>said.
>
>"Why don't you do that?" the Grinch agreed.
>
>Then my wife came in a looked at the computer screen.  "Are you going
>to buy
>those cool wheels?." she asked. "They'd look great on the V8".
>
>"Guess not,"  I told her.  "The Grinch made me think about it.  I need
>to
>lie down for a sec..."
>
>She looked at me very strangely, and walked out of the room, shaking
>her
>head.
>
>This morning, I feel MUCH better!
>
>Roger
>