Tales of the Super Greedy
People who wait in line for days on end in hopes of securing the next new techno gadget inspire the same feeling in me as people who have gotten so grossly obese due to their gluttony that even though they can walk they chose to forgo some much needed exercise and scoot along in their motorized wheelchair.
Both groups perhaps deserve a swift kick in the ass for being so greedy.
However, there is another group that runs a fine line to the geeks and fatties of this world, who could be classified as the super-greedy. These are the kind of folk that would shake down the corpse of a plane crash victim for loose change while the fuselage is still burning. But sometimes their greed tactics backfires on them.
Take for example this news report on June 29 by the Fox affiliate in Dallas. Just minutes before the local Apple store opened on the first day of sales for the new iphone, a woman carrying about $100,000 in cash, and whose greed that was almost palatable was spotted hovering over the long line of X-box withdrawal suffering losers who had been there for days. She was looking to buy her way into the queue. As luck would have it, the person holding the number one spot in line offered up his place. The price tag for this coveted spot, $800.
Looking to buy out the store and double her money on ebay, her greedy hopes were high when the doors opened and she was allowed into the store. Only one problem, in order to insure the stores would have enough phones for everyone who waited, AT&T and Apple implemented a one phone per customer rule. The result, this smug, cash toting, greedy she-devil paid what amounts to $1200 for a glorified Game Boy.
There is something great about seeing greedy people get what’s coming to them!
If you cannot find the humor in that, then you must have been the guy who passed up the cash to stay in line. If she had a soul, I would recommend she put it up for sale on Ebay to cover her losses. Oh yeah, I forgot, she already did and I bought it.
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