How many weeks until Thanksgiving?

Seriously? Its time to blog again? Didn’t I just get done doing this? Another week has flown by. I can’t believe how nuts this semester is. I feel sorry for anyone trying to take more than 12 hours with this reporting class. I thought I could manage 15 hours … oh how wrong I was.

Thursday morning, I went to the auto auction with Danielle and Andrew for our group story. Talk about a wake up call. I don’t think an auction can get any more fast paced. This auction was only open to dealers, they start outside, auctioning some cars on the lot. After about 15 minutes of walking around to individual cars auctioning them off, the dealers walk into a garage with two lanes. Cars start rolling down the two lanes. As the cars stop in front of the auction stand the auctioneer starts calling for bids.

This is an abbreviated account of what happens. Car rolls in, auctioneer starts yelling into the mic, spotters yell out when they see someone that has bid, auctioneer continues yelling, spotters keep yelling, SOLD, someone bangs on the car that just got bought and off it drives. Double that situation and you can start to imagine the chaos of an auto auction. My ears were still ringing a half hour afterwards. It was an eye opener, but because the dealers were all either camera shy or busy with buying / selling cars, we got no interviews. It probably didnt help we couldnt stay for longer than 2 hours because we all had an exam to get to. Our group will go back on Monday to interview the owner of the auction. I’m looking forward to see how this project shapes up, it should be interesting no matter what.