No Discounts 4 Meanies
Oma is selling her house and moving into our house. This is a good thing.
To prepare for the move, we've spent the last week getting ready for a ginormous (FACT: "Ginormous" is a word recently added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary by their wordsmiths) yard sale. Today was day one of the sale. (Tomorrow is day two.)
This morning, the following conversation took place:
Screechy Woman: (in a screeching voice) These two baskets are marked two dollars each. Will you take a dollar for each?
Fondly Sam: (not liking her voice) Umm - no - our sale just started, and I think we can get two dollars for each of them.
SW: (louder screeching, more aggressive) OK, I'll take them. (She sighs) What about this picture frame marked for a dollar. Will you take 50 cents?
FS: (not liking her facial expression) No.
SW: (another sigh) OK. What about this bowl? Will you take---
FS: (not liking her) We're not making any deals now.
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FACT: She bought all of the items she asked about, and sighed when she gave us her dollars.
FACT: We started making deals right after she left - most people are nice. They give us money and take away things we don't want. Genius.
FACT: We gave a discount to everyone else who asked for one.
Labels: please buy Oma's fake Xmas tree, you screech and you lose
posted by magic, and with love from Sam, at 10:45 PM
6 Comments:
she was probably one of those ladies who always goes to garage sales and has a huge reputation for getting deals on stuff. so those sighs were probably just a deflating ego.
7/14/2007 8:08 PM
wow, you're serious about punishing bitchy customers!
7/14/2007 10:32 PM
Being nice is the key to life. Like when i missed my flight to China and was nice to the flight person and he got me on an oversold flight, but refused the girl behind me bc she was a jerk. Just like that.
Also, are you SURE winnie is gone? I thought she was really gone last time...
7/15/2007 8:57 AM
Fact: Ginormous is a great word. I heard that it was in the new dictionary and was happy. My personal favorite is skangy. I made it up myself. It's like sketchy and skanky and grungy. Like the people who lived near my old apt in the Grove. You all should start using it and then I'll buy you all drinks when it gets in Webster's. ;)
7/15/2007 3:22 PM
I should have had you try to sell my mini fridge...just to get it out of my HOUSE! Oh, and gold stars all around for putting the meanies in their place. Way to exercise good customer service skills!
7/15/2007 7:47 PM
duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! i suck at blogging...ur a king
7/15/2007 9:54 PM
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