13:46 cco3 : ok, here it goes
13:46 cco3 : ok so once upon a time, way back in January 2005
13:46 cco3 : (wow I'm old)
13:47 cco3 : I had to take intro to computer engineering, which you CS majors don't know jack about these days
13:47 cco3 : because they teach you easy stuff
13:47 cco3 : anyway, I'm not big on buying books and only bought stuff I absolutely needed to
13:47 cco3 : turns out I needed to buy two little paper back books for this class
13:48 cco3 : and they cost $113.
13:48 cco3 : Which was way more than I wanted to pay for them
13:48 cco3 : So I did some searching online and found a guy who would sell me the book for $80
13:48 cco3 : I was ok with that, so we arranged to meet at one place at a certain time, and then ended up changing the plan probably 3 different times
13:49 cco3 : but finally we were going to meet thursday night, in front of volume 2
13:49 cco3 : (the bookstore at university mall)
13:49 cco3 : Anyway, I thought this was pretty cool, some black market book exchange in front of a book store
13:49 cco3 : so I dressed up in a suit and leather gloves, like a hitman or something
13:50 cco3 : and waited with my $80 in front of the bookstore
13:50 cco3 : We had planned to meet at 6:00
13:50 cco3 : at exactly 5:59, a honda civic pulls up to the curb
13:50 cco3 : a girl is in the driver's seat, a guy is in the passenger seat, a black lab is in the back
13:51 cco3 : the guy gets out holding a book, the girl keeps the car running at the curb
13:51 cco3 : he walks up to me, neither of us saying a word and I start to hand him 4 $20 bills and he starts to hand me a hardback textbook
13:52 cco3 : I stop and say, woah, hang on...I wanted intro to computer engineering, this is intro to computing and economics
13:52 cco3 : he gives me a brief confused look and says, ok, well I have the book you want, just come with me and we'll get it
13:52 cco3 : so I get in the civic in the back
13:52 cco3 : the black lab is jumping all over me and my suit
13:53 cco3 : and we start driving down that road that goes in between kroger and the university mall (I always forget its name)
13:53 cco3 : anyway, we are going way back in the woods
13:53 cco3 : and there's like nothing but log cabins and stuff
13:54 cco3 : and after 10 minutes he finally pulls over to some cabin and gets out
13:54 cco3 : he's gone for like 15 minutes while I'm trying to make awkward conversation with the driver
13:54 cco3 : finally he comes back and gives me the book
13:54 cco3 : he says, i don't want this book and it's an older version, you can have it for $40
13:55 cco3 : I think that's pretty awesome, so I take it, we drive back and I go home, happy with my purchase
13:55 cco3 : I'm sitting in my room when a here a *ding*
13:55 cco3 : (That's the sound IM made back when people used AIm)
13:55 cco3 : and it's the guy
13:55 cco3 : he says "Hey, we've got a problem"
13:56 cco3 : I say, "Oh, what's that"
13:56 cco3 : He says, "I don't know what you look like"
13:56 cco3 : I say, "what do you mean?"
13:56 cco3 : He says, "I was there at the bookstore, where were you?"
13:56 cco3 : THE END