You're a grown man, pay for your own damn trip!

So, this guy comes to the door, somewhere in his 20s. He goes into the spiel: "I'm so and so, my parents are your neighbors so and so. My baseball team is going to nationals, blah, blah. I'm selling books." I'm thinking, "Dude, you're a grown-up, does this never stop?" But hey, I'll look. Now they have no pictures or detailed descriptions of these and he tells me prices may vary, but whatever, there are a couple of kids' holiday collections for Halloween and Christmas. So, I say, "Yeah, I'll help you out with that. How about these?"

And he says, "Those two would be $66 but that includes tax and everything." I think my mouth literally fell open. He tries to explain that he knows they're expensive, but they keep 75 percent of the money, and all I can think is that he would have had better luck just asking me for $20. I sometimes have to wonder about those sorts of scams. Who actually goes ahead and says, "Oh, it's OK that's about 3 times more than I ever dreamed! Sign me up!"