I got a phone call today which started out normal, but then began to turn strange. Into the conversation, I started to wonder if the phone call was real or a prank. The man on the other end of the line was calling about a tv set that I had for sale. I currently have ads running for "Handyman Special" 2 tv's for sale...1 has spots on the picture and 1 does not power up-$5 each. The call started out with the man telling me to hold on while he turned up his hearing aid. As we are talking, my husband told me that if the guy was that interested in the tv's, then just give them to him for free. He just wants to make a dent in cleaning out our 4 car garage. When I let the guy know that we would just give him the tv's, he asked what kind of cars we owned. This struck me odd...wasn't sure what our cars had to do with the tv conversation. I told him what we had and he said he could bring us car parts to trade for the free tv's. I let him know that our cars were new and that was nice, but we didn't need any parts. He was fine with that and told me he would have to come in 15 minutes because he had a polka-dance to go to....seriously?! This was just a wacky phone call!
He did show up in 15 minutes. It was all legit! He was a little 75 year old man who likes to tinker in tv's...told us at one point he had about 50 of them. He was tickled to death to get those 2 free 27 inch tv's...but the story doesn't stop there. He still insisted on giving us something! After loading the tv's into the car, one he had to lift the back seat to fit it in and there was a smashed bagel with cream cheese stuck to the underside of seat, he handed Greg a bag...a swap bag I would call it. When Greg took a look in side, he saw what the man had given us as payment:
Can of potatoes
Can of peas
Can of corn
Can of chicken
Bag of elbow macaroni
"Welcome to Fayette County" brochure
Pair of pliers
2 bank pens
How cute...he just needed to pay....
this is fantastic!
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