35. Conned the Con Men
One day when I was in college I was walking through one of the on-campus parking lots back to my dorm when I saw these two guys trying to sell “high quality” surround sound systems out of their car. I recognized one of them from my high school, he was a grade older than me and a general putz. Out of curiosity, I listened to their spiel, it was some obviously bogus pitch about how they were installing them in the Whittemore Center but they ordered too many by accident and blah blah blah. Just looking at the boxes you could tell they were cheap Chinese knockoffs and worth probably nothing. I could clearly tell they were excited they had “hooked” me so I told them I just had to run over to the ATM to get the $300 they wanted. After a few minutes, I went back and told them I only had $301 dollars in my checking account and I needed $3 to deposit first so I could withdraw the $300 and not get hit with an overdraft fee because of the different bank ATM charge. So foaming at the mouth they give me $3 and I wander back over to the ATM. I ducked around the back and across campus to my dorm, $3 richer but mostly just entertained that I conned the con men.