On Being A Nobody...

Most of us are Nobodies. Nobody anybody is ever going to hear about, read about. Nobody whose life is so important that it has to be talked about on tv or read about in gossip columns. Us Nobodies expect that. We don't expect to wake up Famous some morning and have our lives turned topsy turvy because now the public is watching us. So when something unexpected happens and a Nobody gets some attention, then something shifts inside of us and you start to wonder, what would it be like to not be a Nobody?

I had a niggle of non-Nobodiness happen to me this week. My sister emailed and said she'd found a lady on EBay selling one of my Something Fishy shirts. I checked, and sure enough, a shirt that I had given as a raffle prize at one of our monthly HOG meetings was being offered on EBay for $9.99. The lady said it was used, but in mint condition, which makes me think it was probably tossed in a corner and never worn. When the time came to clean out the closet, out came the Something Fishy shirt and onto EBay it went. The lady who was selling it had it almost right. She said it was a "Something Fish" shirt out of Dillon Beach, California. (Hey, when you're a Nobody and somebody gets it half right, we're satisfied!)

So I don't know whether the used shirt sold or not. The new shirts I'm listing right now aren't selling as fast as I'd like them to. There was a spurt the end of June and I thought, "Ah-Ha! Things are looking up." But maybe that was just the President's Economic Stimulus Checks that were aiding impulsive buys to sites like EBAy and I got some peripheral leftovers from that. Whatever the case, sales are languishing now.

But if somebody wants to make this Nobody feel halfway like a Somebody by re-selling her shirts on EBAy, go for it! For a small slice of time, it feels pretty good just not being a Nobody!