Being a notoriously internet savvy person will result in loosing friends.

For some reason last night I remembered this one girl I knew 5 years ago. We were friends for about 4 years and we got along great. Then something weird happened till this day I do not understand but always made me have this drive to teach girls about the internet world and how “things work.”

She had problems with this bike that she was forced to buy for over a $1000. It was top of the line gorgeous one. So after a year of owning it and obviously she didn’t use it because she had a car, her dad was making her sell it. So I went over to her house and I helped her. She wanted to sell it on the ever so famous Ebay. While we were discussing it she had an old computer that I wanted to buy off of her for 50 bucks. I wanted to make a Linux server out of it and buying old used computers back then wasn’t cheap. So finding someone who will part with it for less than 100 bucks was scarce.

So I made her an Ebay account and explained to her everything that could be explained. I then asked her this simple question, “what is the lowest price you want to sell the bike for? It will be the reserve value and no one can go less than that.” She said, “$600. No less.” I said, “cool. You can deal with the shipping and stuff later. You just have to talk to the person who will win the bid and discuss it that way.”

She agreed and the auction went on. First day she kept calling me and saying, “no one is bidding!” I said, “people usually don’t that early on a 7 day auction.”

Day two.. three.. six.

She then started getting bids, but it was someone trying to reach the reserve value. She then called me on the last day before the auction was over and said, “yay. It reached $600. Will it go more before the auction ends?” I said, “maybe. It depends if there were two or more people fighting over it.”

The auction was over, and I was in desperate need of getting a server. So I called her up after and this is what went down!

I said, “hey.. so you sold your bike eh? How did the process and everything go!”

She said, “I only SOLD if for $600 dollars! And I have to ship it to Toronto. How am I going to ship it. Why didn’t you put local pickup ONLY!”

I was puzzled.

I said, “aah… because you didn’t care if it was shipped and you didn’t want to sell it for less than $600.”

She said, “now my dad is mad cause I only sold it for $600 and I have to ship it. It will cost the person like over $150 to get it shipped.”

I said, “well.. so? Just get them to pay that much and ship it. It’s not a big deal. Is it?”

She said, “it IS! Now I have to go through all the hassle of send it out. You should have JUST PUT local PICKUP! And YOU should have put the reserve much higher! It’s an expensive bike that was never used.”

Again.. I was puzzled.

I said, “well.. ok. So now what? I can’t do anything. But I called you to see if you want to still sell your old computer. I will backup everything on the hard drive and put it on CDs for you. Ok?”

She screamed at me and said, “NO! I am not selling it to you. My dad wants it and won’t part with it.”

I said, “ok.”

She said, “fine.. bye.”

After that, she never talked to me again for a while. My other friend who is also her friend told me that she wanted to talk to me again blah blah. I said, “listen. I don’t have time for children. I don’t understand what happened and why she acted the way she did. What’s done is done. I tried to help, and this is what I get in the end.”

From that day, I became more of a direct person in dealing with people. Anyone who messes with me and does not appreciate me helping them out for free and being a friend, I just completely ignore them and end it there. I don’t understand some girls and their indecisiveness, whining and blaming others. It’s just stupid.

Ranting as usual!, They said what?, Whatever!