01/27/03
The eBay Angel

I had some very weird dreams as I slept, mostly about my eBay auctions; I've been buying some items lately. Only in my dream, of course, eBay was a real-life place, first in a store, then in a sort of bazaar located atop a green hill...very interesting. I was interested in some particular books and necklaces--green stones, I remember, one with a teeny little dragonfly in it--but I got back to the seller too late to get them. *sigh* She was a black-haired lady just packing up her stuff, and I noticed she did have about three books that hadn't sold in time. One was an old battered softcover (like a textbook) on ancient Chinese history or some such. Though I didn't really want the books, or see any need for them, I still felt compelled to buy them. "I notice you didn't sell those in time?" I said; she was a bit flustered, picking up a plastic bin and the books and the rest of her stuff as she got ready to leave. I sensed sadness in her. "I'll buy them if you want...I have...ten dollars in my pocket." And I knew I didn't, but that if I thought hard enough, I'd produce a ten-dollar bill. Interesting. The books were worth more than that, but as they hadn't sold, haggling was perfectly okay and she agreed to the sale. So I took the unsold books off her hands and left, hoping I'd made her feel a little less sad for the day.

There was more to the dreams but I can't remember it well. Just that there was a lot of eBay stuff in them.



2003 Dreams
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