Who's asking whom about being touchy?!
I guess I have a differing viewpoint from that of the others. I didn't feel I was making "calls," but that I was asking the reason for that type of "discussion," and for people to consider the way it might come across. Maybe I haven't been around long enough to be part of the crowd and to be on a buddy basis with everybody, but it just didn't come across very well to me as a newcomer. I recall being disappointed when I've been outbid on auctions, but c'est la guerre. Maybe the loss of an auction just served to remind me to be happier with what I already had. And, supposing it had been somebody else who's a member of this club who won the 1959 Kenmore on the Ebay auction; do you think that type of "discussion" would make the winning member feel very good about admitting that he/she won when everybody is "rooting" for somebody else? That's what I meant about the spirit of camaraderie. If we're all in the club because we share a common interest, isn't that the most important aspect, not over-doing the horn-tooting when we make a new acquisition, or over-doing the bitterness when we miss out? My apologies to all if I offended anybody with my observations.
