To anyone who read the original before I axed it...please bear with me, as I now have all the facts. I'll try to keep it brief...but if you're familiar with my work, you know that's unlikely. So... let me try to make it interesting...
Monday 10/7; in a Reno, NV hotel room (picture Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas)... Our hero seeks refuge back in the room after a "challenging" day at the gaming tables. He pulls up the website and forum to check for updates on the 183Ti. only to find David has put some blemished Ti tubes up for sale. Well... there's a $100 the casino won't get.
Tues. 10/8; Eat, drink, gamble,(repeat as necessary) How much more of this will our boy be able to take???
Wed. 10/9; (see Tues. schedule) Good news...receive shipping notice..maybe the 18350ti?? Back to the website and forum to look for clues,... search..search...search....bla bla, bla, did somebody say something about a brass ELA body? or was it a tube? Whatever... it was a couple of days ago, and no one was really sure what was offered anyway.
What the hell, it wouldn't hurt to check it out? Select brass ELA... hit add to cart...and... are you sh****ng me? Is this for real? or has the casino food and pumped in oxygen causing hallucinations? He check his emails and there's the confirmation...
Unbelievable! He must spread the news of his good fortune...but where? where else? the ELA
thread.. he's pounding away at the keyboard.. going on and on... much like he is now... hits the reply...sits back waiting for the congrats to come pouring in.
Well, he goes back a couple of pages where David's talking about those brass bodies and asks himself if he has just bought one.
Hmmm... he would look pretty silly if he paid $200 for part of an ELA. Sooo.. he deletes the post, and fires an email off to the head office for clarification.
Turns out there was a cancellation that had nothing to do with the brass bodies. It was just good timing and dumb luck he scored the ELA. If our hero had only experienced the same good fortune at the gaming tables, he might have covered his tab with David...
Our boy just isn't that lucky and....doesn't Nick Cage die at the end of that movie?
In conclusion, I would like to announce that I'm the new "last person to receive an ELA" and... David took me for more than the casinos did.
Well played Sir...and... Thank you