Urban Vignette #45-A.
Having suffered some memory damage due to a severely dehydrated brain, I just recalled a strange thing that happened on my way to getting hammered with the illustrious Sheena last night. Two guys in a white Cherokee pulled up to the curb beside me as I walked up the street and said "Hey dude. Do you want a home theatre system?" I said "what?". The guy reiterates his generous offer and points to the back of the truck. I said, "uh, no I'm good". Dude tried harder. He says "seriously dude, do you want this home theatre system? We just scored it from work".
WTF? Brilliance seems to know no bounds in the city I love.
Labels: Stupid, Urban Anecdotes
posted by K-Dough at 11:30 AM
9 Comments:
Your walk home sounded more fun than mine.
actually- that was on the way there. I stopped for a night cap after you left. ugh.
Where you in Toronto or Oshawa,
K-dough??? That sounds like a "Shwa" story to me. Dirty guys driving around in beaten up old vans selling stolen merch??? Total Oshawa.......
LOL. Def sounds like a dirty Shwa story doesn't it?
Coulda been Trashcona, too you know.
When I worked in Etobicoke, the same guy was at the gas station I always went to for years selling speakers out of his van. Every fucking time I went there."hey man, great deal on speakers." one day I finally asked him "what kind of speakers? Car? Home? Bookshelf? Floor?" He said "how the fuck should I know?"
Ever buy a roast beef in a pub that buddy had stuffed down his pants? I rest my case.
K-Dough,
Get this: I once purchased a 100' garden hose from a roadside-pickup-truck guy, and it has worked well for years.
Weird, eh?
FB- good times man, good times.
There's a white van that does this in Barrie. Same guys for years. After the 3'd or 4th time, I called the police. (Hey, if somebody'd swiped my stereo, I'd want to nail the bastards.)
Police laughed. "Yep, we know them. And, believe it or not, they're legit."
Just low-quality/damaged/returned merch, I guess...
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