Light Lens
Big Blue
- T. TOURIS –
I try to recognize and honor the service certain objects in my life have provided. Past honorees have included a lost stainless-steel mug that dutifully kept my morning coffee hot well into the afternoon and a favorite sweatshirt that provided exactly the right body heat retention—until it became so worn and full of holes that it didn’t.
This year, my award goes to Big Blue, the KitchenAid© mixer that mixed, whisked and beat twenty-some years of batter and doughs. Upon entering a kitchen full of blue, acrid smoke I knew the Cobalt Blue workhorse’s career was over—Blue’s motor was blown.
Just like I’d never be able to send a racehorse to the glue factory, I couldn’t bring myself to send Blue to the scrap heap. Onto eBay to find Blue a suitable and dignified retirement.
KSM90BU – KitchenAid 4.5-quart stand mixer
This classic beauty mixed many a dough and batter before its motor succumbed to an overly stiff bagel dough. You could restore it to its Cobalt Blue grandeur with some new (or used) motor parts. Hoping someone can give it a new life.
Let the Bidding Begin!
Day 1: Opening bid: $5.00
Day 2: Things are warming up, 2 more bids, high bid: $6.50 – 14 watchers
Day 3: Now it’s getting interesting. 8 bids. High bid: $19.50 – 22 watchers. The gleaming Cobalt Blue is simply too hard to resist. I have a sneaking suspicion some bidders or lurkers aren’t even interested in fixing it but just want to put it on their countertop as a work of art.
Day 4: Only three more bids pushing it to $26.00. Easter Sunday probably put a bit of a damper on things. Tomorrow will be the big closing.
The excitement mounts.
Final Day:
3 hours until closing: 14 bids, high bid $38.00
2 hours left – no activity – everyone laying low for the final minutes of bidding frenzy.
1 hour left – no activity – getting nervous.
26 minutes to go – no activity– are you people nuts! Cobalt Blue! Come on!
12 minutes – unbelievable – still $38 – must be collusion – rigged.
5 minutes – still at $38. The world is full of morons!
2 minutes – $38 – the big ending. Now it starts!
1 minute – $38 – Last minute lurkers will now swoop in.
0 minutes – Yes! – 17 bids – Winning bid: $48.00
Big Blue was sent his way via UPS to a new home. Hopefully with some TLC he can be back to doing what he loved. Keep mixing it up Big Blue!
