Day 2141 Waste of space

24th June 2023

There are often signs that a sale is going bad when a customer pulls out every drawer, every door, sides, back and top, then decide “to pass”. This happened today.

We were trying to sell a large dresser that had been advertised for a few day with no takers.

Then there was one offer that came in thirty bucks under our price, I said “tell them to go away” or words to that effect, Kelli went back splitting the difference, but that was refused.

Later, desperate for a sale, Kelli went back to the person accepting the low offer.

Later in the afternoon a large white open bed truck with big exhausts backed into the drive.

It had essence of Trump wafting around it.

Out got a mother and her two daughters who promptly opened up the tailgate as the mother started her inspection. Everything was scrutinised, “ looks like it had water damage” she croaked. She had that vocal fry that a lot of girls have where the sentences descend into a deep vat of fat. We knew there wasn’t any water damage, and Kelli lost interest and went to take the cover off the pool, leaving me to face the frying.

“ I think I’ll pass, sorry to waste your time”

“ I think you wasted your time “ I said in reply, and got on with my scraping.

I did think she would use the water damage as an excuse to drop the price a bit more, and I was ready to tell her to get her truck off our driveway, but that didn’t happen.

The truck started up and all the smell of Trump disappeared with them, good riddance.

“I’m going to block her so she can’t see anything we advertise in future” Kelli announced. I would have blocked her entering our driveway if I had known.

Later we had another interested person who said they would Venmo the payment in the evening, but we heard nothing further.

Then another person asked if they could come over and look at it, it was nine o clock by now, but we said yes.

I had to move the piece from the garage again and set it on the driveway.

At the slotted time a small SUV turned up and a tall guy with ginger beard got out.

He did the full check over, trying all the drawers, even pulling one out to check the runners. I did think this was going down the toilet until he said that he liked it, and if he could get it into his vehicle he would take it.

Man, we will get it in even if it kills me, and it nearly did.

That had been an interesting day, you can never predict the outcome, but thankfully the money was in my hand, and it was on to the next one.