bic_bicknell
So my Dianese waterproof jacket is now over 10 years old and is falling apart, lining gone, leaks and generally smells bad. Time for a new one but I'm into EBay now so start searching for a good replacement at a fraction of the new price. Start looking at Rukka 'cos they're the dogs but get a bit shocked at the price - even on fleabay.
Go back to Dianese and find a few likelies but one sticks out - looks like it's the one. Right fit, right colour, right style. I send a PM asking if there's a buy now price and, (just like I would in his place), I get a prompt, but polite, reply saying that he'll let the auction run it's course. I respond saying no probs. and that I'll have a bid when the time comes.
I should say at this point that I'm on ebay as bic_bicknell, just like on here. A few days later I get a PM asking me if my real name is David. I freak out, because it is, and ask a few people what this might mean. It's either a fooking nutter who's into Dianese internet stalking, (whatever that might be), a computer nerd who thinks it's cool to crack peoples identities, (still a nutter), or he's psychic.
I write back and ask if he knows me somehow.
And guess what?...
He was only one of my best mates in my class at school!!!!!!!!
I spent every lunchtime with in the metalwork shop doing stuff on the lathes and forges because it's what we were really into. I haven't seen him since we left school in 1979 except once, about 15 years ago, in a pub where I learned he rode Fireblades round the Lancashire circuit I grew up in - Kirby Londsdale, Devils Bridge, Settle, the lakes etc.
How's that for a bit of serendipity?
I'm going to bid and win that jacket, I reckon I was meant to have it.
He won't sell it me cheap though. Tight northern bastard.
Go back to Dianese and find a few likelies but one sticks out - looks like it's the one. Right fit, right colour, right style. I send a PM asking if there's a buy now price and, (just like I would in his place), I get a prompt, but polite, reply saying that he'll let the auction run it's course. I respond saying no probs. and that I'll have a bid when the time comes.
I should say at this point that I'm on ebay as bic_bicknell, just like on here. A few days later I get a PM asking me if my real name is David. I freak out, because it is, and ask a few people what this might mean. It's either a fooking nutter who's into Dianese internet stalking, (whatever that might be), a computer nerd who thinks it's cool to crack peoples identities, (still a nutter), or he's psychic.
I write back and ask if he knows me somehow.
And guess what?...
He was only one of my best mates in my class at school!!!!!!!!
I spent every lunchtime with in the metalwork shop doing stuff on the lathes and forges because it's what we were really into. I haven't seen him since we left school in 1979 except once, about 15 years ago, in a pub where I learned he rode Fireblades round the Lancashire circuit I grew up in - Kirby Londsdale, Devils Bridge, Settle, the lakes etc.
How's that for a bit of serendipity?
I'm going to bid and win that jacket, I reckon I was meant to have it.
He won't sell it me cheap though. Tight northern bastard.