Preserve the 80s

I was looking through a case of some old cds tonight and came across one entitled “The Palm Court Theater Orchestra Presents: Puttin’ On The Ritz”. Upon seeing this, I was reminded of a rather careless Friday evening in the summer of 2005, when after a typically miserable day of standing in one spot filling ambulance light parts with liquid resin, I resolved to get as wasted as possible to forget about my job for a while.

Upon going to Adams and buying a case of Coors, picking up a pizza, and shutting off my cell phone, I returned to my house all set for an enjoyable evening of anti social drunkenness. I turned on the Mets game and started consuming beer and don’t really remember much of what happened the rest of that night.

After getting up the next day, I checked my e-mail and saw one with a subject line reading “e-Bay item won!”. I didn’t remember buying anything on eBay, but figured I must have done it the night before, so I signed into eBay to see what it was that I had bought. Once I logged in, I saw that I had bought the Puttin On The Ritz cd mentioned above,which featured a medly of 1940’s recordings by a musical group called the Palm Court Theater Orchestra. This was not an item I would spend 25 cents on whilst sober, so I was a bit displeased when I realized I’d bid $40 on it the night before, which came to nearly $45 after shipping charges.

Fast forward 4 years and here I am, sitting in my cellar, looking down at the cd with $45 less in my bank account than I otherwise would’ve had. This my friends is why one should not go on eBay while drunk.