Out for drinks with stds tonight - Mateo told me great anecdote about that happened while he was working for an estate agent in Italy. Some famous footballer whose name unfortunately I don't remember, who was a friend of his boss, wanted to buy a house, so his boss asked Mateo to drive around Milan with the footballer to look at a few places. They stopped outside a place he fancied, and Mateo had to go and ring the bell. Over the intercom, he spoke to the owner of the house who informed him that the house was not for sale. The footballer said ' offer him a million (pounds)' . The guy was not interested. The footballer said, 'offer him a million and a half'. The owner repeated that the house was not for sale. The footballer said 'offer him two million'. Mateo repeated this, and heard over the intercom the owner shout to his wife 'Honey, we're moving!'
One could dine out on that for a while, I reckon.