This week I have taken four of the kids shopping and I will have to say….. I got taken. 🙂 This little fast talking cute as a button 12 year old took me to the cleaners and was still trying to take me back for a return visit as we were walking out the door.
The other kid with us was quick to pick out his pair of shoes and within 15 minutes had his shoes boxed up and ready to go but my little con artist didn’t pause for breath the first 15 minutes he was in the store long enough to give serious thought about exactly which shoes he wanted. If the truth was known I think there was some method to his rambling speech. He walked into the store immediately asking the sales lady where was the newest pair of shoes they had. When we found out they were $200 a pair I quickly diverted his attention to a brighter pair of shoes. And so for the next 30 minutes he gave a running commentary on multiple subjects from the best cleaning products for white shoes to KB socks and the reasons why he would not have picked the shoes his fellow shopper had chosen. And then the con began…. my little friend
“REALLY wanted a pair of white Jordans” but he was quick to point out “that all white shoes would get dirty real quick playing outside and he didn’t want to have to wear dirty looking white shoes so he REALLY needed to get a darker colored shoe that preferably had a strap across them so he didn’t have to worry about shoestrings but he REALLY wanted a pair of all white shoes and low and behold just look on the sales table he could get a white pair of Jordans AND and another pair of darker colored shoes for ALMOST the same price as what I had paid for the other kids one pair of shoes”….. and then he stopped and took a breath and looked at me with innocent eyes. Needless to say I fell for it.
Because I couldn’t fault his logic nor his salesmanship and I had to admire his game. So as we are checking out the rambling speech begins again and he is on a roll about “KB socks and how they are on sale and he really had wanted some for Christmas….”
I got out of the store fast quick and in a hurry with my two shoppers in tow!! And as I got into the car I hid a smile because I just got played….. and Christian would have been so proud!!
I love it!! This started my day of with a smile.
Well you know Mark, to hear Christian tell it he built the house board by board, stone by stone with his own two hands with very little help from anyone. When I would start talking about the money he owed me for various things I had helped him buy he would immediately start this fast talking speech about how he had “sweat equity” in the house and he had built the deck, the pier AND the boat house almost by himself and really if the truth was known “I probably owed him money instead of him owing me money.” I never got a dime repaid over the years I don’t think but we had a whole lot of discussions about it to the point it became running joke between us… those were good times.
Ummm.. I have been conned by one Christian Andreacchio in much the same way… More than once!!!! Lol. Wouldn’t change it for the world!!!
Love this.