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ERRYDAY I'M HUSTLIN'
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so I'm at the car wash
my car has a lot of dents and scratches due to having the world's smallest parking space
I'm vacuuming my car and this guy in the car next to me goes, "HEY, I DO BODY WORK, I CAN DO A FREE QUOTE FOR YOU, NO CHARGE" and I say okay because I meant to get that done ages ago anyway
hHe comes out, looks at everything, and says "I can do it for 250 right now." and I say "uh, I mean, that's a great price but I don't have the money right this second"
and he snaps his fingers and his cousins come pouring out from his car and pulling out cloths and chemicals and shit, and he fixes the dent by SETTING A SPRAY PAINT CAN ON FIRE and then pulling it out and blah blah
I am saying "no really I don't have the money right now" and they've fixed everything wrong with the car in about 10 minutes
I Facebook my Mom and all "OH GOD LEND ME 250 DOLLARS" and she does and I drive him to the bank and give him the money, and now I have a nicer car for a way cheaper price than I would have paid elsewhere
my question
did I get scammed/hustled/hornswoggled? or did I just fall for a very, very good sales pitch?
also, what scams/schemes/etc have you been victim to or perpetrated on others?!
my car has a lot of dents and scratches due to having the world's smallest parking space
I'm vacuuming my car and this guy in the car next to me goes, "HEY, I DO BODY WORK, I CAN DO A FREE QUOTE FOR YOU, NO CHARGE" and I say okay because I meant to get that done ages ago anyway
hHe comes out, looks at everything, and says "I can do it for 250 right now." and I say "uh, I mean, that's a great price but I don't have the money right this second"
and he snaps his fingers and his cousins come pouring out from his car and pulling out cloths and chemicals and shit, and he fixes the dent by SETTING A SPRAY PAINT CAN ON FIRE and then pulling it out and blah blah
I am saying "no really I don't have the money right now" and they've fixed everything wrong with the car in about 10 minutes
I Facebook my Mom and all "OH GOD LEND ME 250 DOLLARS" and she does and I drive him to the bank and give him the money, and now I have a nicer car for a way cheaper price than I would have paid elsewhere
my question
did I get scammed/hustled/hornswoggled? or did I just fall for a very, very good sales pitch?
also, what scams/schemes/etc have you been victim to or perpetrated on others?!
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you only got scammed if the work was bad
but I'd describe that as like
Shanghaided maybe
it looks great!
Ever had a guy try to sell you jewelry from a trench coat in a parking lot before?
Or this other time I had a guy try to randomly sell me pills at a cocktail bar.
Speakers from another car while we were literally on road stopped at a stoplight. Stolen goods everywhere!
but they're listening to every word I say
I am not sure
he did have four large burly men with him
he said so
Was it his rap CD and if so where can I hear it?
but they're listening to every word I say
I mean, yes, I have learned this now
but...
I mean, the work looks fine, he did exactly what he said he would
In Korea I got swarmed by five or six cab drivers who snagged my luggage from me, half drug half lifted me across the road to a cab, tossed everything in and then the one driver took off with me and charged me a bunch of money. I was waiting on a army shuttle bus. I did get the army to reimburse me under "travel expenses".
it's funny because from a third person perspective it's so obvious that you think only a moron would fall for it but in the moment it's actually really easy to just be like "oh yeah sure here's sixty bucks"
http://www.audioentropy.com/
One time at a bar this lady was flirting with me and I made a joke about wanting some of her pain pills (she was getting a pain pump put in the next week) and later that night she loaded me up with so. much. vicodin I was kind of aghast.
She put it in a napkin and slipped it into my pocket.
She also invited me to her lake house.
what I'm saying is I'm so good at karaoke that I am also good attracting older women who come to see me do karaoke.
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yo tell them to come spray my dents
ugh these guys
The scam there is the part where the husband shows up to the lake house and shoots you.
but they're listening to every word I say
no, I paid for it, it's mine
We walked away
I'm sure he would have pushed a CD at us had we stuck around
well I bought his CD but I can't tell you if his claims are justified
What? No way that video is for real. I could see someone saying like.. "hey nice watch can I look" or "can I see your phone" and then running. But asking for your phone your watch and you wallet all together? I mean, I feel like you'd have to be high to fall for that.
but they're listening to every word I say
I get those too, they are usually people saying that I owe bills and demand payment.
As if!
I wonder how they knew I went to the doctor and got those services done, though.
nope it works
obviously not everyone will fall for it but there's a few things he does to prime the guy into giving him his stuff
he asks him for directions, which gets the guy in a mood where he's being helpful (notice the way he emphasizes the phrase "you're happy to give that to me")
then he hands him his water bottle, which subconsciously makes the guy feel like he should give him something to reciprocate
combine that with the slight disorientation of being approached by a stranger on the street and being given clear explicit instructions and yeah certain people will just be like "here ya go" and not realize what they did until it's too late to get their stuff back
http://www.audioentropy.com/
They'll ask you if you want a shoe shine, and before you can get a word out they're dumping goop on your shoes
and then it's like, i don't know maybe I have a couple bucks
i don't usually carry cash man, but get that shit off my fucking shoes and i'll see
maybe wait like 24 hours
yeah this occurred to me
Definitely an occasion where my tendency to say "no" when I'm uncomfortable came in handy.
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I kept thinking that he initially poured clear lighter fluid on the guy as a threat of immolation if he didn't comply ... I had no idea it was just mind games.
Then again, I'm inherently cautious and don't trust strange encounters.
Yeah the one time I let a pretty girl stranger borrow my phone she pulled a kitchen knife out of her purse and started making stabbing motions in the air while screaming that she was going to kill the cheating whore on the other end of whatever number she called.
I mean, I got my phone back (had to so I could re-dial that number and tell that girl to contact the police and/or go somewhere safe because this other lady had clearly gone bad) but yeah, pretty much made me be cautious/paranoid ever since.
Japan relaxed me a lot on this front but, now that I am back stateside I am back to normal. One of the teachers I worked with in Japan was surprised that she got her phone stolen while at a Starbucks in New York. Apparently she just left it on her table while she went to use the restroom. Because that is totally a safe thing to do in Japan. I did it all the time myself.
but they're listening to every word I say
this happened to me in front of an AutoZone. random dude noticed a dent in my car door while i was entering the store, and he asked if i wanted it fixed. i was skeptical and told him to not do anything, i was just going to the store. next thing i know, the guy has one of those suction cup-screwpull devices on my car on the dent. not only did it not completely fix the dent, it also bent the rest of the door in a weird way.
worst part: it was dark at the time and i was fairly young and naive. looked fixed at the time, so i gave the guy some cash. regretted it as soon as i could see what actually happened.
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