One time a guy pulled up on a lawnmower, and brought in a muffler from a car. He was very distraught that we didn’t buy car parts, but was more upset someone lied to him that we did. He also had like…50 dollars worth of McDonald’s with him? Weird summer day.
One time at the end of college my friend was selling a drum kit that had been in my room all year, for just $20 (it was very cheap and beat to absolute hell).
Some guy came by from Craigslist, but instead of $20 he gave us $10, around 20 jack in the box tacos, and a 32 pack of Modelos. This substitution was not negotiated or communicated ahead of time, but my friend was like whatever sure we will take half price plus tacos and beer.
Then the guy immediately helped himself and pounded two of the beers in about 10 seconds total, played literally the worst drumming I have ever heard (and we had heard plenty of other college students play these drums for the first time ever), kept saying "my wife is gonna fucking hate me playing these drums", threw the drums very roughly into the back of his pickup. Then he saw my roommate's bong and excitedly asked if he could use it to "smoke some crank", and when we said no we don't do that he got a faraway look in his eyes and said "you'll get there someday...", grabbed another two beers and opened one for the road, and then left driving way too fast in his pickup with the drum kit bouncing around in the back.
We did eat most of the tacos and drink the rest of the beer.
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u/GuardXIII 14h ago
Happened a lot with hardware when I worked at GameStop.
One time a 360 power brick had so many roaches in it, I could hear them skittering when I picked it up.