Cheapskate Monthly

Ah, last Sunday was again fleamarket day. I decided before I got there that I was going to stick to my guns...no just giving shit away to placate a cheap-ass.

Had a beautiful McCoy pot, had no less than 5 people ask how much, and then walk away after being told $5. Lady asks me, again I say $5. She not only whips out the 5, she proceeds to buy several more things and leaves happy.

Sold nearly EVERYTHING. Went around the fleamarket and "shopped" for a few minutes, came up with a styling Cheerilee pony, a Coach purse, a Vera Bradley purse, an entire set of Harker dishes. Spent $30, left with my original $30 plus another $20. The guy next to us drove off, leaving a smoker, a deck sprayer, 3 pieces of furniture and several other random items. Charley jacks the smoker and sprayer right off. Then people file by and keep asking about the stuff on the table.

At first, we tell them the people drove off. Some of the stuff gets carted off. A family wants one of the desks, and asks us to watch it for them, it's getting late, and we're beat...the people have not come back and it's been almost an hour. Charley says to me "Fuck it. The next person that asks about that thing, I am gonna sell it to them" I say whatever. A couple asks how much is the desk? Charley says make an offer...the guy hands him $24, and we hightail it outta there...lol.

We are driving down the road, and Charley starts having a shit-fit because he just saw a giant-ass bag of packing peanuts on the roadside marked "free". Because he has crammed the smoker and the sprayer in the car, we don't have much room. We shift some crap around and cram the giant bag into the backseat as far as it will go. We drive home with Charley's face on the dashboard, with a box of whoopie cushions in his lap, and our ill-gotten gains crammed all around us.

The only blip on my day was when he kept the entire $24 from the desk...I sat there for 45 minutes babysitting the fuckin' thing too. That, on top of yet again paying for the table, rather pissed me off. He should at least take the $27 off what I owe him, which would make it like $48, but I am sure he'll conveniently "forget" when the time comes. Ass.