Fishing was too good, beer (after the first freebie) and food too expensive, parking's a pain in the ass, and most of all, I couldn't afford to win the boat
The IRS taxes it as straight income based on sticker, and you'd be lucky to be able to sell it at 60 cents on the dollar in today's economy--if you could sell it at all before you'd have to mail away the estimated tax check. Maybe the first guy took all of that into consideration and really was there when they called his name
