the internet is for porn panini
amazing thing happened. just like every other worldcup i am collecting panini stickers; and yes, i knowww. silly and i AM way too old for this.
but this year things are going rather well, thanx to the – hold your breathe – glorious interweb. i have been doing all my card trading online at fussballbilder.ch, interesting thing, i have noticed that most of my trades were with women, at least 80%. it is truely amazing, because it works solely on trust. suspicious as i am by nature i was only waiting for someone to take advantage of this trust and not send the stickers by mail as they had promised. but so far all my trades went well and exactly as discussed via email.
actually, a few days ago i thought a guy had cheated me. this is what happened: wednesday a week ago we had agreed on a trade for 7 stickers. i sent his stickers out the same day and started waiting for his. friday, no letter. saturday, nope. monday, still nothing. i was getting a bit antsy and wrote this guy an email. he did not respond. tuesday, still nothing. i sent him a second email, still no response. on the site i posted a comment where i accused him of cheating: warning, so and so is cheating. silly distrusting me, because …
wednesday … i got his letter. and this was priceless. the adress was written in kid’s writing. i am no expert, but he can be no more than 10 or 11 years old, but he could be as young as 9. inside i find all the 7 stickers we had agreed on plus one extra sticker: a silver sticker that i was still missing. you must know, that on schoolyards silver stickers count double.
i was so moved by this. the kid had panicked, because he was late, and so he added the extra sticker for me, for which he must have gone back to check my list of missing stickers, omg. beautiful.