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Auctions; Careful What You Bid For
I when I realized what I had actually purchased at the Theta Chi auction, I knew I could be set for more than a lifetime. On the other hand, it possibly could be the death of me.
I’m not an overly zealous alumnus like some of the guys I know.
Oh sure, I root for the football team and I take in a couple of games every year.
I usually don’t answer those seemingly endless solicitations for money though!
They really bug my ass.
Barely missing my wallet!
I figure, sending 2 boys to my alma mater and paying the full load in addition to helping pay for a grandchild’ s 4 years of video games, coed twister, beer and occasionally yak shaving in a classroom — was enough.
The one thing that I do to help support the academic continuum is try to attend my old fraternity's auction every year.
I joke to my grandchildren, I’ve been going to the auction longer than it took me to graduate.
I’m a year shy of 80 years old — you do the math.
Over the decades, I‘ve been the winning bidder on: gift baskets galore, travel packages, an endless amount of tickets to…
