Can't blame a guy for trying, LOL. That's the one missing helmet that I really want for my display.
Try not to let the stress get to you. The upshot is that it seems like you found a new place fairly quickly which can be the real pain point from what I hear. I moved about a year ago and we didn't really feel that pain as the first house we wanted we got into. It went up on a Tuesday and we were under contract on Thursday. Fast! When we sold our condo, we were under contract 7 hours later. If you were able to skip looking at a million places and getting denied, count yourself as lucky.