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Cake day: June 12th, 2025

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  • I was selling a saw. Pretty good one, compound mitre, slider, 12" blade, and a really nice stand. I don’t remember what I wad asking, but it was fair. Let’s say $500 for the sake of the story. Dude gets in touch, asks a couple of questions, and says yeah, he’ll take it for that price. Day comes, he shows up and checks it out. I have it set up and we cut a couple of boards to show him it’s all square and good.

    He says cool, here’s $300.

    I say, yeah, uh, we said 5. I’m selling it for 5. Not 3.

    He looks at me deadpan and says this is all I brought.

    I say well, I’m selling it for 5.

    He looks at me and says I drove all the way from *city about an hour away on a good day with no traffic.

    I look back at him and say Huh. I bet you wish you hadn’t done that.

    He just kind of stands there looking at his shoes while I pack the saw back up and he sort of sulks off.


  • Zagam@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world...
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    3 days ago

    What’s old? I’m 53 and hate pretty much everything I see. I have a Grumpy Bear on my dashboard so we can bitch about other drivers. I’m in near constant pain from a back problem and can’t do very many fun things anymore. And every single day I make every interaction with everyone I come across as pleasnt and fun as I possibly can. I make eye contact and say please and thank you. I tease and joke with everyone I see. Just because I’m a curmudgeonly old fuck doesn’t mean I have to bum other people out. But maybe I’m not old yet.









  • They’re rad. My wife got me 2 Nigerian dwarf goats for my birthday last year (after a lot of talking about it, don’t give animals as a surprise gift). They’re at least as smart as dogs, as curious as anything, and they each have distinct personalities. We live just outside a city and walk them just about everyday on leashes. The whole neighborhood loves them.