Swindled! Bamboozled! Speckledorfed!

[HumpinHop]

When was the last time you were taken for a ride by someone you knew or didn't know?

I didn't lose anything in my last encounter except for time, self-respect, and my trust in fat greasy sketchy looking strangers. I met said stranger in a McDonalds near my college, as I was eating my meal and noticed riots on the T.V. I got up to hear them and he, sitting near me, said "Please don't tell me you're one of those brainless teenagers that doesn't know current events". I immediately went into defensive mode in order to defend my damaged pride, leading me to ask him thoughtful questions as he went into a, literally one hour and forty minute speech against the government (laden with every conspiracy theory known to mankind). I wanted to leave desperately but I felt trapped, being suckered in by the first insult stacked onto my social ineptitude. At the end of it he basically said we'd all die unless we turned to Jesus, and he gave me his phone number if I wanted to be in his youth group. I declined but I was completely spooked and uncomfortable for the rest of the day.

How about you?

 

[Drenaje1]

Fwa? Even if it was a pride thing, sitting for almost two hours in a McDonalds listening to a greasy conspiracy theorist is just, wow. Okay.

In answer to the question, however, I actually can't think of the last time I was taken for a ride. I'm usually the one taking other people for a ride actually, every time I make one of my friends recoil in terror/disgust at an insane statement or two I get to laugh and eat a cookie, then tell them I was kidding.

Also, I think I'll be talking to people in public even less now.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I've also been taken in by one of those twinkly-eyed, spittle-flecked God-botherers. He now makes a beeline for me whenever I cross his field of vision.

 

[Klumpfot]

When I met a similar man, I just mocked him without him noticing for 15 minutes or so before taking my leave. He was substantially inebriated, though.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

I do no thing those words mean wha you thing they mean. (<---in best Inigo voice)

I thought they referred to being tricked.

But, whatevs, buy your definition, I would answer as such;

Ugh, my boss does it everytime there's something new on our computers.

Yes sir, I know how Powerpoint works. No sir, I don't need you to explain it slowly, point by idiotic point, telling me to "then use the mouse and click on this" every time you use the mouse.

But, at least I'm getting paid to endure it, so it could be worse.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I'm relatively gullible these days but when I was a kid... MAN, was a I a sucker. I was swindled out of more pokemon cards and toys and even a few video games than you can imagine. One bastard TOOK MAH SCYTHER!!! AT least I can take solice in the fact that the laws of probability dictate that one particular childhood "friend" of mine who speckledorfed several things from me has overdosed on drugs and is now dead. That or he somehow turned his entire life and personality around and is living happily. Either way is fine with me.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Awwwww, I thought this was going to be a Spongebob Squarepants discussion thread.

OT: Personally I haven't, but I have encountered them, I just ignore them and walk away.

However, my English teacher sometimes goes on off-topic rants about things when you ask her a simple question like "did I spell this right?", next thing you know she's talking about her husband's adventures overseas.