Funny story about selling a monitor....
 

I just sold my Samsung Syncmaster 955df to a local for $85 and we decided to meet at a local Chick-Fil-A to make the exchange. We got there, put the monitor in his mom's CRV, and he, his brother, and I went in and ate some chicken and shot the shit a little.

We finish the meal and leave in our cars, me first, and I go along my way.

I get home and am welcomed to this conversation:

sp862: hey man
sp862: you there
SwissPatriotRG: yeah
SwissPatriotRG: did you hook up the monitor?
sp862: OMFG dude
sp862: you arent going to believe what happened
SwissPatriotRG: ?
sp862: I hit a pole with my moms car in the chick fil a parking lot
sp862: :(
sp862: and it ****ed it up good
SwissPatriotRG: what?
sp862: yep
sp862: I just now got home
SwissPatriotRG: holy crap
SwissPatriotRG: that totally sucks
SwissPatriotRG: what happened?
sp862: lol, I was trying to prevent teh monitor from falling
sp862: and I turned too hard
sp862: it sucked man
SwissPatriotRG: why didnt you put the seat belt on it?
sp862: oh well
sp862: I was tellin my bro to push his seat back to secure it
sp862: and thats when it happened
sp862: you live and you learn
SwissPatriotRG: dude, is the car ****ed up too?
sp862: but I got the monitor hooked up
sp862: yea the car is messed
sp862: we had to have it towed
SwissPatriotRG: geez
SwissPatriotRG: i didnt see it
sp862: yea
SwissPatriotRG: aah, man
sp862: it sucked
sp862: but the monitor works great
SwissPatriotRG: lol
SwissPatriotRG: did the airbags come out or anything?
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Not sure what happened at the end, it is possible his internet simply cut off, maybe I made a bad comment, maybe his mom came in and ripped the computer out of the wall after seeing her car in shambles.

The guy didnt want it shipped, maybe he should have just let me do what I wanted to do first: ship it for like 10 bucks. We could have saved gas, a pricey meal at Chick-Fil-A, and a new-ish Honda CRV :shrug:

Just thought someone might enjoy today's adventure :D

Isnt that allways the way? i get people from halfway across the contry want to 'meet me halfway' insted of me just sending them the dam thing in the first place. What they dont seme to relise is its gonna cost them more in fuel (let alone time) to get half way.

What the hell does "shot the shit a little" mean?

Urban dictionary usually helps in this matter:

shoot the shit:

To chat idly about things that neither person involved in the conversation will be likely to remember.

John: "We decided to shoot the shit for a while."

Jeff: "Oh yeah? What'd you talk about?"

John: "I don't remember."

:D

ahh small talk. One of my most hated parts of life. :) Must be an american saying.

Of course, why else would it be so derogatory?

Lol, I drive a first Gen CRV and I am a member of www.hondasuv.com

hehe, nice story.

Reminds me of how I crashed my moms voyager when I was still learning to drive. :-)

yikes!

good thing the monitor didn't break and then ask you for a refund or something.

lol, i've had that happen before. i sell a kid a part, he breaks it somehow, and then his parents ask me to refund the money.