I thought i might share this [not too unusual for me] incident from about fifteen years ago, the memory was prompted by the correspondence in the bucket of males thread
I along with three friends attended a meeting of the I.H.S [international herpetological society] it was the usual practice after the guest speaker was finished to have refreshments and sell any spare reps and amphibs you might have. a teenager was trying to sell two male redsided garters, he was ready to move on from garters and had arranged with another member to buy a python or monitor or some such,[i cant remember what] he was having no luck unloading the garters and i took pity on him and offered to buy them to allow his deal to go through even though i needed more redsided like an extra hole in the head,
on the way home [me driving] my friends could hold back their laughter no longer and went in to hysterics for most of the journey only sharing the joke when i began to get a little pee'd off at being left out . it seems that three years before when this young man had first attended along with two friends i had given then each two garter snakes and this budding entrepreneur had sold back to me the snakes i had given him for free Warren Buffett i am not