The Woman I Hate

Last summer, I had a few garage sales selling some a lot of stuff I had gotten out of dumpsters during my university's move out (it was all working items in good condition, mostly appliances, electronics, and other household items). For my second sale, my mother volunteered me to try to sell some friends' garage sale leftovers which, to my dismay, consisted entirely of clothing and the like.

Much of this stuff was legitimate designer wear which shouldn't be at any garage sale, especially mine because I have no idea how much any of that stuff is worth. Most of the items were still priced from our friends' sale and I left the prices on as a guide for myself. Not surprisingly, nothing was selling because no one wants to spend $15 on a shirt at a garage sale.

The Woman I Hate showed up late in the day in a pickup truck with a man I assume was her husband. I guessed they bought items at garage sales to sell at swap meets because their truck was filled with household items and they had bought a bunch of cheap appliances at my last sale.

The Woman I Hate immediately started gathering up clothing until she had a fairly large pile for which she offered me $2. I laughed and told her that items were priced individually and there was no way she could possibly have all of that for $2 to which she got mad. The situation culminated in her telling me that the bag that was priced at $50 -- which I told her she could have for $12 -- was priced at fifty cents, not fifty dollars. At that, I told her she could leave and she wasn't buying anything.

I don't hate this woman because she tried to bargain with me; that would be very hypocritical on my part. Rather, I dislike her because she had the gall to try to rip me off like that. I now refuse to sell her anything whenever I see her at one of my garage sales because she always expects ridiculous bargains (for example, at my most recent sale, she tried to give my friend $3 for the crystal set he sold for $3 per stem). It doesn't bother me that she tries to bargain; it bothers me that she gets mad (to the point of shouting sometimes) when you don't accept her ludicrous offers.

Since my first negative experience with this person, I've started to see her a lot when I go garage saling. I estimate I see her at once two thirds of the days I go garage saling and many days I see her two or three times. She's always the same rude, terrible person to other sellers as she was to me.