She was kind enough to stop her eBay auction to sell me the box for a cool ten bucks. Geez, I nearly wet my pants over that box. I've not seen another like it, in its original form, or in a guitar conversion, and I just had to make it into a guitar.
Well, tonight I got a note from Mitzi after she looked at my blog and saw what a nice creation came from her willingness to sacrifice the auction so I could satisfy my own crazy thirst for a unique instrument. She is such a nice person, and she has very kind words of praise for my work and creativity.
Hang on, the story gets better.
It turns out that Mitzi is a business woman to be reckoned with. She revealed that, what I have mistakenly thought was kindness and sympathy on her part, for an old guy with a lust for mystereous little three- and four-string instruments made from dicarded waste, is actually 'Big Business' at work here.
Mitzi from Monroe confessed that she paid a whopping two bucks for that box at a yard sale, and that she didn't even know why she bought the damn thing in the first place.
I know why! She knows that a sucker is born every day, and I was the sucker for her cigar box. But, what she dodn't know is that I would have paid twentyfive bucks for that box that day. So I guess we both won big!
Thanks again Mitzi, you da' Lady!
The funny thing about my garage sale purchase... I asked the lady how much she wanted for it. She told me 5 bucks, I had already decided that I would only give her 2. She agreed to the 2 bucks that i offered her and I was on my way. All the while, I'm wondering why I even gave her 2. I didn't really know what it was or what I would do with it. Little did i know that it's destiny was to end up with Jess in Ohio and become a beautiful piece of art! I'm so glad I was able to see the Orion reincarinated!! Beautiful!!!!! Mitzi
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