Ripped Off

Have you ever driven into a parking facility and the time states 3 minutes before 5pm and then as you go through, you notice there’s a sign that says per entry charge after 5pm? What the…….! So I went in 3 minutes before 5 and had to pay for the 3 minutes entry as an hour’s charge plus the per entry charge after 5pm! What a bloody rip off! You feel like an idiot really. Cheated by the woman you thought loves you and cleaned out everything in your home save for your dirty laundry. Ok maybe that’s not really a close analogy but heck it’s the same feeling of getting ripped off all the same.

So, I figured since I have to pay so frigging much for the 1 hour parking I might as well stay there beyond the hour. Here comes rip off feeling number two. It gets worse I can let you in on that. Wandered about the mall I chanced upon this small electronics shop selling some pc sound system and they had a sale sign on this fabulously designed woofer and mini speakers. Fabulous also because it fits into my new home design concept and fabulous because of the sound its singing from those small system. Not to mention the fabulous price they are on sale at. Least that’s what the overweight sales guy led me to believe. He said the original price is at least 40% more. Turned up the volume of the system and he had me ready to give him my plastic. I was blown away by what it can do. Signed and wrapped.

Two days later, while accompanying a friend in an electronics department store I saw the very same speakers going for 15% lesser than the price I had paid for. What the…..! It’s even cheaper than the ‘sale’ price I got mine for. Why that little weasel! It felt like having one of your nuts pulled out! First the extra parking fees I had to fork out. Now I found that the ‘sale’ wasn’t a sale??!!! What a crap day that was.

Fast forward two days later and another electronics store had a sale on the very same speakers. Yet a further 15% cheaper which makes it 30% lesser than what I had paid mine for! And they are throwing in a set of headphones for free! I just got my remaining nut yanked out. I have no more nuts left so please no more further ‘SALE’. I am going back to that shop to rip off that fat ass sales man’s nuts to replace mine. He wouldn’t have noticed they are gone anyway given his humongous beer belly.

Sale my ass!