I'll make this quick - I promise.
When I was at WyoTech, I had a roommate named Matt Eaton... Matt was, to put it bluntly, a fat useless slob. He weighed probably 350 pounds (my guess, but pretty close.) He almost failed out of WyoTech (which is awfully hard to do,) did over $500 dollars worth of damage to the furniture at the house we all rented (most of it by SITTING on it...), and when he left Blairsville, PA to return to Boston, had a court date set for theft charges from a local Sheetz gas station. He claimed he wouldn't return to PA ever, and therefore didn't care if a warrant went out for his arrest. The entire time there, he did nothing but eat and skip class, constantly mooching money off of his parents. I truly disliked him until the night he defecated all over our bathroom and never cleaned it up. After that, I hated his guts.
When he left, very early the day after graduation (he knew I pretty much wanted to kill him, so he went through extreme lengths to avoid me) he left 5 bags of trash on the front porch. As I started cleaning and preparing to pack up that day to move out, I started putting my own trash on the porch by his bags. At one point, I noticed that through the white plastic trash bags, I could clear see a stack of books in his trash. Curiosity overflowing, I opened the bag. I then opened the other bags, to learn that he had literally thrown away everything he had bought with his folks money. I found RC cars, tons of comic books, TONS of computer games - discs and all - and even course books from WyoTech to classes I couldn't afford to take.
I didn't take everything, but I took a lot - the stuff was all pretty much mint condition. Only the PC games were used - the books, I could tell, were unread.
Two things I took from the trash I took only because they LOOKED valuable - Volume 2 of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in hardbound print, and Volume 1 of the League of E.G., the
Absolute Edition.I researched the values when I got settled in Allentown, and found that they were pretty much worth store pricing. So I held on to them.
When I got laid off just recently, I again looked up the values. Guess what...
The Volume 2 hardbound edition is listed on Amazon as discontinued, and people are selling their used books for 90 bucks a piece.
The Absolute Edition Volume 1 was selling on Ebay for $200 DOLLARS A SET...
Time to list mine, I figured.
They both end tonight. Unfortunately my volume 2 has no bids, but volume one is sitting at $173.50 as I type this. It ends in less than 20 minutes.
You can check here to see what it went for.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200204005264&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=010Thank you, Matt Eaton, for your idiocy. I pray to God that your hands never touch the car of another human being. No one's life is worth the risk. Thank you again, ol' chap - I smell a new set of wheels in my future. I'll tell him "Kool-Aid" is picking up the tab. *wink*
Jeff
