Apple Picking

[penfield]

With the help of Craigslist I recently unloaded my 1994 Macintosh Performa 636 CD, my trusty college computer. My parents bought it for me as a freshman and it was practically obsolete by the time I was a sophomore -- my friends' PCs and PowerMacs would bully mine around, printing and taping "reboot me" to the back of my monitor -- though it was generally reliable for writing term papers and timidly navigating the still-nascent world of online pornography.

But it had been sitting in my closet for the two years since I bought a newer computer/paperweight, and it was about time I finally got rid of the thing. So I placed an ad this past weekend and I got three responses. Normally, I would give the first person to respond the right of first refusal. But his e-mail handle was "Tat2dpiercedguy," whereas the second guy to respond, an hour later, was named "Mike." I wrote back to Mike first, and he picked it up yesterday.

I don't have anything specifically against tattooed and pierced guys or gals. Some of my best friends are tattooed and/or pierced. But I have reservations about anyone who is so tattooed and pierced that he self-identifies as such. (It would be like me having the e-mail bald_n_insecure@hotmail.com.) I was just more comfortable dealing with a Mike. Does this make me some kind of a bigot? Am I a bad person?

Comments

[tfofurn.livejournal.com]

Where would you rank someone whose email domain was feedmyego.com? :-)

[pastdue.livejournal.com]

horrible. really and truly.

[enchanted-pants.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

[pastdue.livejournal.com]

i hope that was as tongue-in-cheek as my original comment, buddy.

CraigsList

[jatchwa.livejournal.com]

You know, selling my futon on Craigslist was incredibly stressful. Two people swore upon a stack of bibles that they wanted to buy the thing, they just needed to borrow a car and they'd come back later for it. I think you did the right thing, though the first person to lie to me was a schoolteacher.

Re: CraigsList

[enchanted-pants.livejournal.com]

Schoolteachers are the worst liars of all. "Permanent record," my ass.

Sorry, Mom.