I got used... ONCE. I never let it happen again.
I worked at Circuit City when I was about 20, and in walks this girl I went to high school with. We were good friends back in the day, and there had always been a little chemistry between us. Anyway, she starts dropping by every day while I'm working and we talk about everything. On the fourth or fifth day, she mentions that she wants a new car stereo. Stupid me blurts out "hey, no prob... I can get that for you at cost". So we get her the stereo at cost (almost 40% off the shelf price AND free installation), talk a little more while it gets installed (which we did after the store closed... I was good friends with the guys in the garage).
Then she disappears off the fscking planet.
Two days after she got the gear, my buddies and I were throwing a huge party on campus. I called her several times, left messages, etc., and got no response. I was pretty pissed and it was obvious I had been used.
I didn't have any real emotional attachment to her personally. What pissed me off was that I let myself get used like that. It should have been so obvious that she was just angling for the stereo, but I was so quick to try to please her with the news of the discount that I never bothered to stop for 2 seconds to think about what was going on. More than anything, I was just pissed that I looked like such an idiot.
So anyway, about 3 months later she walks back into the store. I ignored her as best I could, but she finally cornered me and started talking to me like nothing happened. I tried to be polite and friendly, and we carried on a descent conversation. About 30 minutes into said conversation, she drops this little bomb:
Her: "Man, I really need a new TV... while we talk, how about you show me around so I can see what's out there..."
Me: "Fsck you. Get the fsck out of here."
She stared at me with these huge Southpark eyes and left. I never heard from her again.
There have been other times when my Bottomfeeder Alarm went off, but I never let it go far enough to have an actual story to tell. I got sucked into the events above because I was somewhat vulnerable (fiancee had just broke it all off with me a couple weeks earlier), and she was someone I had been attracted to previously.
Oh well... live and learn. At least I have a descent story to tell
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I worked at Circuit City when I was about 20, and in walks this girl I went to high school with. We were good friends back in the day, and there had always been a little chemistry between us. Anyway, she starts dropping by every day while I'm working and we talk about everything. On the fourth or fifth day, she mentions that she wants a new car stereo. Stupid me blurts out "hey, no prob... I can get that for you at cost". So we get her the stereo at cost (almost 40% off the shelf price AND free installation), talk a little more while it gets installed (which we did after the store closed... I was good friends with the guys in the garage).
Then she disappears off the fscking planet.
Two days after she got the gear, my buddies and I were throwing a huge party on campus. I called her several times, left messages, etc., and got no response. I was pretty pissed and it was obvious I had been used.
I didn't have any real emotional attachment to her personally. What pissed me off was that I let myself get used like that. It should have been so obvious that she was just angling for the stereo, but I was so quick to try to please her with the news of the discount that I never bothered to stop for 2 seconds to think about what was going on. More than anything, I was just pissed that I looked like such an idiot.
So anyway, about 3 months later she walks back into the store. I ignored her as best I could, but she finally cornered me and started talking to me like nothing happened. I tried to be polite and friendly, and we carried on a descent conversation. About 30 minutes into said conversation, she drops this little bomb:
Her: "Man, I really need a new TV... while we talk, how about you show me around so I can see what's out there..."
Me: "Fsck you. Get the fsck out of here."
She stared at me with these huge Southpark eyes and left. I never heard from her again.
There have been other times when my Bottomfeeder Alarm went off, but I never let it go far enough to have an actual story to tell. I got sucked into the events above because I was somewhat vulnerable (fiancee had just broke it all off with me a couple weeks earlier), and she was someone I had been attracted to previously.
Oh well... live and learn. At least I have a descent story to tell
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