The reason I enjoy life.

You know, certain things really enrich one's life. Excitement, a sense of fulfilment, ability to help and interact with others and most of all....stupid antics! Now, the majority of the stupid antics in my life involve my closest friends. That's probably why they are my closest friends. We get ourselves into crazy situations, we constantly ridicule and embarass one another and best of all, we take some risks that maybe we should be avoiding. Now, this latest story was told to me by "Gulliver" (I'll keep his identity anonymous to protect him from lifelong heckling). So, as Gulliver told me today:

"Faran, you'll never believe this. I was driving to Home Depot today from work, and I accidentally took the wrong turn because my mind was obviously somewhere else. As I was trying to regain my sense of direction, a van pulled up beside me and started yelling, 'Pull over, pull over! I have some great speakers I can sell you for a great price!'. So, I think to myself 'Gulliver, this is not a smart thing to do'. Which translates into 'Gulliver, let's give it a try'. So, I pull into the nearest parking lot, and this guy comes out and gives me this spiel. He tells me their supplier overstocked their van with two extra $2000 speakers, and if they take them back to their supplier, the boss will just keep them for his personal use. So, they decided to sell them on their own for some extra cash. So, I was a little skeptical and asked them if we could go to a nearby Chapters and check out these speakers in a magazine. Conveniently, this young man had an audio magazine that had these speakers listed at $1500USD. So, he wanted to sell them to me for $1000. I told him no way, so he brought the price down to $800, then $600. I finally offered him $400 thinking there's no way he'd take my offer up. Little did I know, this guy jumped on it. So, I bought these speakers, happy as a whistle, and started driving home. Before I got too excited, I called my friend, and told him to check out this brand of speakers (Digital Research). He came upon this website... http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/3/15757.html, and also this website... http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/3/10780.html. That's right, I basically paid $400 for some wires and a cheap woood casing. I got scammed. Now, fortunately I have taken this as a life lesson, and hopefully I will learn from my mistake. By the way Faran, do you know anybody who wants a pair of $2000 speakers??"

By the way, I added the last part. Anyways, Gulliver says he learned a valuable life lesson (although I highly doubt he did). First of all, this is what he gets for trying to get a deal off the 'back of a truck'. Second of all, this is what he gets for thinking he's 'oh so clever'. Haha...once again, this story brightened my day. I thank each and every one of you out there who are close friends of mine. God bless you all, and Merry Christmas.