auctioneer

this story i heard from naresh
i wonder where he is now

he was travelling to Bombay in train
it was general compartment
all partitions were filled with people and some were standing

one vendor with many utensils forced himself in and stood in middle of the compartment with one leg on each side of the partition
he said he was going to auction these utensils to whoever is the highest bidder and started a mock game
he looked at his left and asked for a bid
waited for sometime and started saying loudly 3 .. 3 .. 3   and looked at right and it did not matter if any one called but start saying 4 .. 4 .. 4  as if somebody just increased the bidding
he after sometime would sell the vessel to a hypothetical bidder and keep it aside and start the same game with another vessel
everyone was watching and not getting involved
one passenger out of boredom and changed the game perhaps all of sudden bade '6'
auctioneer repeated 6 ..  6 .. 6  and then gave the vessel to the person who bade 6 and collected the money
one onlooker sitting behind him, tried to intervene saying that there was never a bid for 5
with folded hand auctioneer begged him saying
'please allow me to earn my living'