True Story©… Initiate Plan B
I tend to make
notoriously horrible financial decisions…
It is a small miracle that I have been in this house for
almost 12 years without my mortgage company coming to kick my door in as just
rewards for my own stupidity.
As y’all may
recall, I famously sank all of our liquid cash into a risky crypto bet just a
couple of weeks ago. As it stands, I have
still made some money on that, but not enough to quit my job like some nerds on the internet said I would be able to. I am pretty sure my wife hasn’t checked the
joint account balance recently, but I sweat profusely every time she pulls her phone out
and I cannot see her screen.
I need to make a
comeup real soon…
With some luck, I had sank money I (we) already had into to the Meme
Crypto market, and my stimmy check HAPPENED to show up a couple of days later
so I was not exactly “broke.” Not yet at
least.
When, despite the egging along of the likes of Elon Musk, Snoop Doge and even a
mention from Mark Cuban, Dogecoin didn’t go “to the moon” as Twitter seems to
think it would, I looked down at my calendar and noticed that this past Sunday was
Valentine’s day.
What the shit does Valentine’s have to do with losing your
life’s savings on the stupidest bet one has ever made this year?
Thank you for
asking…
See, I figured that given that February 14st was
on a weekend this year – albeit a Sunday – people would make more time to
celebrate than they might if it was on like a Tuesday or something. I know that people tend to use their “Time to
Valen,” as I call it sometimes to piss people off, to angle towards bedding
someone of some semblance of particular interest to them. Further I know that sometimes people act in
the heat of the moment and don’t always sheath their sword before going into
battle, which is dangerous when combined with one having a weak pullout
game. FURTHER, I know that some women go
through with this whole rigmarole simply in exchange for the meal and some dingaling, but
do not necessarily intend to procreate with the person she has recently enjoyed
coitus with.
I had an
idea. As the day approached, I went and
picked up one of my nephews who is of age and two of his friends. I cashed out the stimulus money chillin in my
bank account and we went for a ride around the city. We stopped at every Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS,
WalMart, Target and grocery store pharmacy we could and we bought up ALL the
morning after pills. Yes, all of
them. As in cleaning the city out on the
Wednesday before Valentine’s day. This
would not allow stores enough time for a replacement order, shipment and restock of them;
especially not with shipping carriers not named Amazon still dragging their
asses to get anything delivered. I
figured people would begin looking for their Plan B pills about Friday –
ostensibly payday – or Saturday when they would be off work and have time on
their hands.
I was off work on
Friday. I had to go and get a recall
serviced on my station wagon (ß
judge yourself, I love those things). As
I sat in the waiting area drinking Subaru’s expensive-ass coffee and stuffing
their water bottles in my coat pocket, I searched social media and Google to
see how my plan would play. In public
posts on the Bookface and local posts on Twitter, people were noticing already
at 9am on Friday that local stores were out of Plan B AND the store brand generic
morning after pills.
Plan effective…
On EACH of the
posts/tweets, I commented that I knew where some could be had immediately if
not sooner. I directed them to a FB
Marketplace post I had made showing an insane cache of them in the corner of my
living room. It was as if I was running a
porn studio or something.
Somehow, through all of this, my wife had not yet bothered to ask why I had
amassed thousands of dollars worth of morning after pills in the house. I think at this point she is just used to me
and my bullshit.
Inevitably, one of
the “customers” shot back a response to my pricing…
Customer: “You charging $400 for this?”
Me: “Yes, yes I am.”
Customer: “But it is only $45 in stores.”
Me: “Not that it is any of my business HOW you
know that--… Never mind. My price is my price and theirs is theirs.”
Customer: “But they are out right now.”
Me: “Ohh…
So you’re saying I could ask for more?”
Customer: “No, NO…
Wait. I’ll pay it, just tell me
where you want to meet up.”
Me: “Lovely negotiating wi’ ye, madame.”
[Phlip Note: been
watching Outlander with the Wife Person, I fall into an awful Scottish accent
from time to time. I sound like a damn
Lucky Charms commercial]
As the day and
weekend progressed, I applied the same low-pressure-but-high-stakes sales
practice to pressing people to spend $400 now instead of hundreds of thousands
over the course of the following 18+ years.
I hope my conservative friends are reading this. I have applied rules of supply and demand to
quickly profit on a fucked up market condition I created myself while
SIMULTANEOUSLY doing my part to avoid terminating pregnancies on that other,
less desirable term. YAY capitalism! (?)
Now I am no expert
on the subject and certainly have never read ANY instructions other than the
ones in a Lego set, let alone the tiny writing on the back of a Plan B
box. I am guessing that is how I have a
daughter despite taking a morning after pill EVERY time I did it with my ex
wife a woman I had a wedding with one time.
That wouldn’t matter though. Sunday came
and I'd made my money back, plus some, plus some cash for my nephew and his homies
for helping me.
Now I am faced with the task of sneaking that meme stocks money back into the joint account without Wife Person noticing and giving me a tuneup beating after dinner.
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