When life gives you lemons make lemonade

One time at work i was called over to our other building by a friend of mine who was a little hard up for money and he wanted to sell me a certain muzzleloader. Me, already having one turned that down but then started to question about the rest of his gun collection. I persuaded him into selling me one of his pistols. then when i back to the other building i started to tell just a certain few people about my next purchase. Unfortunetly someone who i told and thought that we were good friends wanted the gun as well and went over with cash, gave him the money then and there and would follow him after work and get the gun from his house like i was supoposed to. later on in the day i went back over to make sure every thing was still good then he told me the news. But come to find out the next week i needed the extra cash for something very important and i had it due to me not buying the gun.