Sunday, July 27, 2008

There's a Reason I'm Not in Sales

Me: Hello?

Total Stranger: Hi, I was calling about your bike for sale on Craigslist.

Me: Oh, ok.

TS: So...

Me: Yeah?

TS: Can I have your address?

Me: Why?

TS: ...so I can take a look at your bike?

Me: Do you want to buy it?

TS: I'd like to take a look at it?

Me: Oh.

TS: I can come right now.

Me: Oh. Sure, yeah, my address, hmm...

[This is actually me stalling. He sounds like there's the teeniest chance he could be a serial killer. At the very least, he sounds kind of old and very scruffy, in an Appalachian mountains sort of way. At least, that's what he looks like in my head.]

Me: Sorry, I forgot, I already sold that bike.

TS: What?

Me: Yeah. Maybe next time.

*click*

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