voice from the past
hah. i love when people accidentally get in touch with someone they really shouldn't get in touch with.
last night I received an email from the address of a guy who totally screwed me over after agreeing to sell an fj60 landcruiser. you know, one of those over the internet deals where you go through all the extra steps to be sure the guy isn't a total flake because you've got to go far away to get the damned thing.
like where you send multiple emails saying "are you absolutely sure this is going to happen and you're not going to flake because I'm buying non-refundable one way tickets out there and making all these other plans based on you not flaking" and he responds - yes. buy the tickets and come on out.
and then suddenly stops responding to emails.
really classy white trash move.
well, here's the response I sent to everyone on the stupid email making fun of people from iowa:
>Subject: Re: Iowa's New Tornado Warning System
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:25:32 -0700 (PDT)
>
>hi joe!
>
>and wow, has it been a long time. come to think of
>it, it's been well, almost ummm...
>
>since early in 2002. man 4 and one half years or so.
>
>yeah, right about during the winter olympics in Salt
>Lake City it was.
>
>wow.
>
>maybe you don't remember.
>
>or...
>
>maybe you didn't mean to send me this email.
>
>In fact, upon some several moments thinking about why
>in the hell I might have received email from you at
>all I remembered - I have tried on several occassions
>to get ahold of you. maybe you don't remember. you
>sold me a landcruiser over the internet. it was blue
>and you had posted it on ebay or some such. there was
>snow in the pictures. According to you the car was,
>like, super cool. AND in good shape. wow. maybe the
>shape was GREAT. double wow.
>
>striking any bells?
>
>I agreed to fly to wisconsin from California to pick
>it up. you agreed to sell it to me. at the very last
>minute, well maybe not within a few minutes but
>certainly after I had purchased non-refundable tickets
>to the milwaukee area (for two so my friend and I
>could split the drive back to the bay area via
>interstate salt lake city on I-80) you backed out of
>the deal and didn't respond any of my phone calls or
>emails.
>
>
>At the time you had been complaining about problems
>with the engine - problems you had just noticed you
>swore - something about a bad seal in engine - the
>details escape me at the moment, an oil pan gasket or
>piston ring I can't remember. in any event, and some
>good time later - I got another land cruier, which
>ironically is having very similar problems at the
>moment (well, despite the dishonesty part) and you
>should know that I consider the dishonesty i
>experienced a very valuable lesson. Also, I'm sure
>the air carrier which benefited from the 600+ american
>dollars I spent on not flying to WI kept that carrier
>out of bankruptcy for all of about 0.03 seconds - that
>part makes me feel especially good. I care about
>government subsidies, especially to overpriced
>industries like, hmmm, the winsconsin dairy industry.
>
>
>Regardless of what I learned, or how I happened to
>stave of the financial ruin of an american air
>carrier, I no longer want to receive emails from you
>for any reason (unless you're willing to repay me for
>the lost monies spent on one way tickets to the fine
>state of wisconsin).
>
>man, funny how that whole experience was. I purchased
>one way tickets after agreeing to purchase the
>landcruier from you AND THEN bought tickets to the
>winter olympics. the original plan was to fly to WI
>and drive back via the olympics but you bailed and
>stopped responding to emails. well, owing to the fact
>that I had purchased tickets to WI for myself and my
>friend (in addition to tickets for salt lake from
>montana, where my girlfriend had been working that
>month) - I ended up having to borrow a car from
>another friend and drive from SF to the olypics on
>short notice - hate to let those olympics tickets go
>to waste - it's lucky that I never fucked anyone over
>like that so that I could depend on people in pinches
>like that to not lose even more money as a result of
>someone else's flakiness. plus I got to boo anyone
>from wisconsin. really loudly. owing to the proximity
>of the whole olympics thing to the bombing of the WTC
>I was NOT allowed to do anything more drastic to
>people (truthful or otherwise) from WI.
>
>oh well.
>
>at least I got to see the winter olympics - man those
>canadian and japanese and scotish and american curlers
>were really good. especially that dude with the beard
>wig who kept jumping up and down when the japanese
>chicks did well. plus I got to see suburbs of salt
>lake city, and I bought a book about the history of
>mormonism or whatever they call it. wow.
>
>what a good time. despite the lack of booze and the
>fact that I dropped my cell phone in the hot tub and
>really only had the whole damned vacation in the first
>place because some total flake in the second best
>dairy state in the union didn't have the decency to
>hold up their end of a bargin. good time yah. makes me
>wanna go drink some beer from stevens point, or maybe
>some sprecher root beer, or listen to some metal at
>metalfest, or go see a vintage movie in west alice, or
>check out riverfest at marquette park, or, oh idunno,
>watch a waterski event at the delles, or really ever
>forgive anyone from winsconsin for your sins again.
>
>Regardless of all of that, I do appreciate your
>somewhat less than timely respone (I was begining to
>think you were ignoring me) - well, anyway, thanks.
>again. really.
>
>at least for not stealing my money directly. I mean,
>that part would have really sucked. like, more than
>the rest of dealing with you did.
>
>maybe. save that I would have had the added incentive
>to come and burn down all of milwaukee in your name
>and shame you and your family in the name of senator
>joseph macarthy.
>
>and gone to mars cheese palace and bought one of those
>waxy cheese cows. the ones with just the cow faces.
>
>wow.
>
>that'd be really cool.
>
>sort of.
>
>except for that whole being lied to and screwed over
>part.
>
>-aram
>
>
now, aside from not being able to count very well (4.5 years?) and forgetting the vermont makes better cheese than winsonsin too, and well, A LOT of run on sentences, I HAD A BLAST WRITING THAT EMAIL. I forgot how much fun that whole trip was. And really, I don't harbor any real anger that long about things that are so unimportant. Mostly I'm just really pleased they accidentally sent me the email because I hadn't received an email from them for so long I thought they had forgotten about me - I'm glad to see they still care enough to share mass emailed spammy bad jokes. it's like i still have friends out there somewhere.
last night I received an email from the address of a guy who totally screwed me over after agreeing to sell an fj60 landcruiser. you know, one of those over the internet deals where you go through all the extra steps to be sure the guy isn't a total flake because you've got to go far away to get the damned thing.
like where you send multiple emails saying "are you absolutely sure this is going to happen and you're not going to flake because I'm buying non-refundable one way tickets out there and making all these other plans based on you not flaking" and he responds - yes. buy the tickets and come on out.
and then suddenly stops responding to emails.
really classy white trash move.
well, here's the response I sent to everyone on the stupid email making fun of people from iowa:
>Subject: Re: Iowa's New Tornado Warning System
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:25:32 -0700 (PDT)
>
>hi joe!
>
>and wow, has it been a long time. come to think of
>it, it's been well, almost ummm...
>
>since early in 2002. man 4 and one half years or so.
>
>yeah, right about during the winter olympics in Salt
>Lake City it was.
>
>wow.
>
>maybe you don't remember.
>
>or...
>
>maybe you didn't mean to send me this email.
>
>In fact, upon some several moments thinking about why
>in the hell I might have received email from you at
>all I remembered - I have tried on several occassions
>to get ahold of you. maybe you don't remember. you
>sold me a landcruiser over the internet. it was blue
>and you had posted it on ebay or some such. there was
>snow in the pictures. According to you the car was,
>like, super cool. AND in good shape. wow. maybe the
>shape was GREAT. double wow.
>
>striking any bells?
>
>I agreed to fly to wisconsin from California to pick
>it up. you agreed to sell it to me. at the very last
>minute, well maybe not within a few minutes but
>certainly after I had purchased non-refundable tickets
>to the milwaukee area (for two so my friend and I
>could split the drive back to the bay area via
>interstate salt lake city on I-80) you backed out of
>the deal and didn't respond any of my phone calls or
>emails.
>
>
>At the time you had been complaining about problems
>with the engine - problems you had just noticed you
>swore - something about a bad seal in engine - the
>details escape me at the moment, an oil pan gasket or
>piston ring I can't remember. in any event, and some
>good time later - I got another land cruier, which
>ironically is having very similar problems at the
>moment (well, despite the dishonesty part) and you
>should know that I consider the dishonesty i
>experienced a very valuable lesson. Also, I'm sure
>the air carrier which benefited from the 600+ american
>dollars I spent on not flying to WI kept that carrier
>out of bankruptcy for all of about 0.03 seconds - that
>part makes me feel especially good. I care about
>government subsidies, especially to overpriced
>industries like, hmmm, the winsconsin dairy industry.
>
>
>Regardless of what I learned, or how I happened to
>stave of the financial ruin of an american air
>carrier, I no longer want to receive emails from you
>for any reason (unless you're willing to repay me for
>the lost monies spent on one way tickets to the fine
>state of wisconsin).
>
>man, funny how that whole experience was. I purchased
>one way tickets after agreeing to purchase the
>landcruier from you AND THEN bought tickets to the
>winter olympics. the original plan was to fly to WI
>and drive back via the olympics but you bailed and
>stopped responding to emails. well, owing to the fact
>that I had purchased tickets to WI for myself and my
>friend (in addition to tickets for salt lake from
>montana, where my girlfriend had been working that
>month) - I ended up having to borrow a car from
>another friend and drive from SF to the olypics on
>short notice - hate to let those olympics tickets go
>to waste - it's lucky that I never fucked anyone over
>like that so that I could depend on people in pinches
>like that to not lose even more money as a result of
>someone else's flakiness. plus I got to boo anyone
>from wisconsin. really loudly. owing to the proximity
>of the whole olympics thing to the bombing of the WTC
>I was NOT allowed to do anything more drastic to
>people (truthful or otherwise) from WI.
>
>oh well.
>
>at least I got to see the winter olympics - man those
>canadian and japanese and scotish and american curlers
>were really good. especially that dude with the beard
>wig who kept jumping up and down when the japanese
>chicks did well. plus I got to see suburbs of salt
>lake city, and I bought a book about the history of
>mormonism or whatever they call it. wow.
>
>what a good time. despite the lack of booze and the
>fact that I dropped my cell phone in the hot tub and
>really only had the whole damned vacation in the first
>place because some total flake in the second best
>dairy state in the union didn't have the decency to
>hold up their end of a bargin. good time yah. makes me
>wanna go drink some beer from stevens point, or maybe
>some sprecher root beer, or listen to some metal at
>metalfest, or go see a vintage movie in west alice, or
>check out riverfest at marquette park, or, oh idunno,
>watch a waterski event at the delles, or really ever
>forgive anyone from winsconsin for your sins again.
>
>Regardless of all of that, I do appreciate your
>somewhat less than timely respone (I was begining to
>think you were ignoring me) - well, anyway, thanks.
>again. really.
>
>at least for not stealing my money directly. I mean,
>that part would have really sucked. like, more than
>the rest of dealing with you did.
>
>maybe. save that I would have had the added incentive
>to come and burn down all of milwaukee in your name
>and shame you and your family in the name of senator
>joseph macarthy.
>
>and gone to mars cheese palace and bought one of those
>waxy cheese cows. the ones with just the cow faces.
>
>wow.
>
>that'd be really cool.
>
>sort of.
>
>except for that whole being lied to and screwed over
>part.
>
>-aram
>
>
now, aside from not being able to count very well (4.5 years?) and forgetting the vermont makes better cheese than winsonsin too, and well, A LOT of run on sentences, I HAD A BLAST WRITING THAT EMAIL. I forgot how much fun that whole trip was. And really, I don't harbor any real anger that long about things that are so unimportant. Mostly I'm just really pleased they accidentally sent me the email because I hadn't received an email from them for so long I thought they had forgotten about me - I'm glad to see they still care enough to share mass emailed spammy bad jokes. it's like i still have friends out there somewhere.
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Word up to the curling. Even if we got buggered on the milwaukee (and brunch with jender's sis) we did get to rock the slc with krispy kremes.
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