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re: The time you got hoodwinked the worst
Posted on 10/12/15 at 3:50 pm to junkfunky
Posted on 10/12/15 at 3:50 pm to junkfunky
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Bought a bag of fresh lawn clippings in the middle of the night once. Worst part was that it was full of ants.
I got a gram of cig tobacco wrapped up in foil in Bourbon Blues Company one night. Really a WTF was I thinking kinda thing and not sober at all.
Bought first house for asking price. Went down like this: Sellers were realtors and we didn't know it(flippers too). We pulled up one time to just check it out. Walking by at same time was a neighbor who happened to be a realtor and their friend. She ended up being our agent and fricked us in the butt. We still sold a few years later for profit but easily paid 5-7k over what we should have paid for the house.
Worst part is they put laminate flooring in the whole house including the fricking kitchen but stopped at the feet of the dishwasher. A leak a year later ended up in a new ceramic floor for kitchen(tiled UNDER the diswasher like should have been).
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Posted on 10/12/15 at 3:57 pm to chickman1313
OK, so 17 year-old me is looking at this 1978 t-top Cordoba (I'll pause while you ROFL). I'm standing next to the dealer-owner and we're talking price.
Another guy walks up, expresses interest in the car, basically says if I don't want it for X price, he'll buy it.
Well, I'm thinking I'm about to miss out and this was a decent car for my budget. So I agree, right then, to buy.
I found out later that the "walk up" guy was friends with the dealer and he had no intention of buying.
They were the "two brothers" and I was the "stranger".
A guy walks up on me now while I'm talking price, I walk off.
Lesson learned.
Another guy walks up, expresses interest in the car, basically says if I don't want it for X price, he'll buy it.
Well, I'm thinking I'm about to miss out and this was a decent car for my budget. So I agree, right then, to buy.
I found out later that the "walk up" guy was friends with the dealer and he had no intention of buying.
They were the "two brothers" and I was the "stranger".
A guy walks up on me now while I'm talking price, I walk off.
Lesson learned.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 3:59 pm to rebeloke
Back in 1955 I hadn't been at LSU but two weeks when I got hustled in the pool hall. Guy bet me ten bucks he could run the table before I could sink the 8 ball into the side pocket on a two rail bank.
Best ten bucks I ever spent. Never been taken on a sucker bet since.
Best ten bucks I ever spent. Never been taken on a sucker bet since.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 4:01 pm to rebeloke
When I was informed that Will Muschamp was going to be a good HC and I believed it.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 4:01 pm to CFDoc
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Listened to my cousin (who goes to cburch) about which auto mechanic (who went to the same church) to take my truck. Guy fricked me for over $1400 on an AC repair. And played the church card the entire time. Lied to my face several times.
A guy that carried a bible, had a bible on his desk, and talked about God tried to screw out of $40K and had his wife lie to my face. He claimed to be a badass, but was too much of wuss to talk to me in person.
If those types of people keep you from God, they win.
Don't let them.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 4:08 pm to rebeloke
If I tell you where you got your shoes...you owe me $20
Posted on 10/12/15 at 4:13 pm to VetteGuy
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If those types of people keep you from God, they win. Don't let them.
They don't. It just added to my hoodwinked feeling since my better judgement would have never used this guy after meeting him. It was the 'church' angle that kept me around. And what pisses me off the most.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 4:18 pm to CFDoc
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And what pisses me off the most.
Totally understand.
Just like putting on a helmet and firesuit doesn't make you a racecar driver (dang, I wish it did
), carrying around a bible or going to church doesn't necessarily make you a good person. 
Posted on 10/12/15 at 4:19 pm to ChineseBandit58
quote:On the day when I left home to make my way in the world, my daddy took me to one side. "Son", my daddy says to me. "I am sorry I am not able to bankroll you to a very large start, but not having the necessary lettuce to get you rolling, instead I am going to stake you to some very valuable advice. One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you are going to wind up with an ear full of cider."
Back in 1955 I hadn't been at LSU but two weeks when I got hustled in the pool hall. Guy bet me ten bucks he could run the table before I could sink the 8 ball into the side pocket on a two rail bank.
Best ten bucks I ever spent. Never been taken on a sucker bet since.
-- Damon Runyon, Guys And Dolls
Posted on 10/12/15 at 4:38 pm to rebeloke
I thought Viagra protected against stds.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 5:31 pm to Monday
This thread delivered.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 5:36 pm to jbgleason
Sent flowers to funeral of Manti Teo's girlfriend.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 6:27 pm to rebeloke
Posted on 10/12/15 at 6:33 pm to rebeloke
quote:
I had a totally fine chick I just started dating tell me she had 4 nipples. It was pretty much over at that point.
she was warning you before you had her in bed.
She meant, YOU ARE GETTING ME IN THE SACK, AND I WANT YOU TO RELAX ABOUT THIS POTENTIALLY EMBARRASSING ISSUE BEFORE HAND, but no
you ran off.
and you missed out.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 6:38 pm to rebeloke
4 nipples...?
Posted on 10/12/15 at 6:54 pm to CelticDog
Wait. Wait. You would actual shag a 4 nippler?
Posted on 10/12/15 at 7:03 pm to CFDoc
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Listened to my cousin (who goes to cburch) about which auto mechanic (who went to the same church) to take my truck.
Guy fricked me for over $1400 on an AC repair. And played the church card the entire time. Lied to my face several times.
I say this as a devout Christian.
A Christian will frick you first.
Sans my insurance agent, I avoid doing business with anyone that I go to church with, and I especially avoid any business that uses Christianity as part of their marketing message or in their name.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 7:16 pm to anc
But to answer your question.
I had a major one.
All my life, I wanted to be a high school principal. I student interned in high school with a great one, and learned some basics of administration. I went to college with the plan in hand. History teacher for 3-5 years, Masters in Ed Administration, High School Principal.
A couple years in, I met the sorority girl from Metairie that is now my wife. Long story short, her parents are of the red white and blue variety - redneck, white trash that think they are blue bloods. Being from a rural area where if the ends met, it was a good month - I was intimidated by the big house, expensive vehicles and boats and such.
My future mother in law looked me in the eye and said that I needed to choose a different career option. Her private school (Rummel) educated daughter could not be married to a public school principal. My future wife said screw them, but I wanted good relations so I fell for it, threw away two years of education and got a Marketing and Communication degree, more student loan debt, and a wife.
Shortly after we were married, Katrina hit. I was chasing the corner office at a Fortune 500 company, and my small business owning in-laws got hit hard. What came out of it was that not only did they get hit hard by Katrina, they were skating on very thin ice. It was all a show. They were (are) seven figures in debt and there is no end in sight. They are in their mid-60s, have no retirement savings and their business is a money pit (I now understand these things).
I parlayed my marketing career into a job in education, and while I never will be a principal, I do have a good career path in education. But I completely altered my life over this.
I had a major one.
All my life, I wanted to be a high school principal. I student interned in high school with a great one, and learned some basics of administration. I went to college with the plan in hand. History teacher for 3-5 years, Masters in Ed Administration, High School Principal.
A couple years in, I met the sorority girl from Metairie that is now my wife. Long story short, her parents are of the red white and blue variety - redneck, white trash that think they are blue bloods. Being from a rural area where if the ends met, it was a good month - I was intimidated by the big house, expensive vehicles and boats and such.
My future mother in law looked me in the eye and said that I needed to choose a different career option. Her private school (Rummel) educated daughter could not be married to a public school principal. My future wife said screw them, but I wanted good relations so I fell for it, threw away two years of education and got a Marketing and Communication degree, more student loan debt, and a wife.
Shortly after we were married, Katrina hit. I was chasing the corner office at a Fortune 500 company, and my small business owning in-laws got hit hard. What came out of it was that not only did they get hit hard by Katrina, they were skating on very thin ice. It was all a show. They were (are) seven figures in debt and there is no end in sight. They are in their mid-60s, have no retirement savings and their business is a money pit (I now understand these things).
I parlayed my marketing career into a job in education, and while I never will be a principal, I do have a good career path in education. But I completely altered my life over this.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 7:40 pm to rebeloke
I had a buddy that bought a laptop from a guy outside of a gas station. Paid like 50 bucks for it, still in the original box (he didn't open the box). Got it home and opened it up and there was a block of wood inside. Idiot.
Posted on 10/12/15 at 7:46 pm to anc
Wow.
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