today I...
was meeting up with a guy from craigslist to sell him
a hat I was never going to wear. The guy was running late and gave this meth head looking guy a chance to approach me. He asked if I had a gas can he could have and I thought “oh the ol’ I’m out of gas excuse” and I said “actually I do, in my truck not far from here”. And I told him I’d go get it for him after I sold this hat.
Sold the hat, went to get the gas can and met him at a nearby gas station. I gave him a $1 for gas and the guy next to us did as well. I asked him before we put any gas in that if he was bull****ting me, just tell me now and I’d give him the $1 bill instead of the gas, that I didn’t want to waste my time for nothing. He assured me he was telling the truth.
So he gives me the location of his car and I bike down Dallas for a little while looking for it, I pass Taft and I still haven’t seen it and I’m starting to think I’ve just bought some guy without a car some gas. But I go a little further and sure enough there’s a car illegally parked in front of some condos, like he mentioned, and it’s the same make and model he said it’d be. I waited for him to get there, so I could get my gas can back, but mostly because I was curious to see if he was telling the truth after all this.
He finally shows up and starts putting the gas into the car. I even briefly thought he may be filling up a stranger’s car just to not look like a liar, because he briefly played a “I can’t find my keys” game and had already told me “man I lost my phone earlier”. So my faith was definitely wavering.
He finds his keys, pops his trunk and moves about half of the gas into an empty bottle of alcohol (we didn’t have a funnel). I’m not sure why he had such a giant bucket of alcohol in his trunk, but he did. Eventually after spilling most of the gas on himself, he gives up and offers to give me a ride back (I decline). He also heard me take a picture of his car and was like “AW DON/T BE MAKIN’ FUN OF ME ON FACEBOOK NOW.”
then on the way home, the clicking sound from my bb/chainring/whatever returned! GDF)(#@%)*#@)(%*)#(