Book Commercials & Misanthropic Observations

Public Temper Tantrums

The original post of a series now titled “THINK before you speak”

Dear Craig’s list poster,

While I suppose I can understand how you may be frustrated with your past experiences selling your items, I wonder if you understand that I, the current reader of your post, am most likely not the jerk you are referring to in the following comment, quoted directly from a recent post:

CASH/PICK UP ONLY!!!
smoke/pet free home! Will NOT HOLD for anyone! If whoever gets here 1st with the money gets it! I’m tired of people saying they will come get it then have to reschedule only to decide they dont want it.

Yes, dear poster, you may indeed be tired of all “those people”. However, now you strike me as a hothead and I will not take the risk of doing business with you. Did you mean to come off that way? I’m guessing no.

You just forgot that this is my first impression of you, and a temper tantrum is not a good first impression, nor a positive public face. Does this somehow exact revenge upon the person who apparently decided your items were not the quality they were hoping to purchase? No, it only reflects on you.

And you just alerted me to the fact that someone else rejected your stuff as not worth the money. I think I will take a lesson from your last buyer and pass on your things.