I Got Scammed

So a few days ago.... I was scammed by a bunch of damn durian vendors. They came to my doorstep to sell durians, and me not ever having buy durians before, had no idea the price of durians. So I called my mom and she told me that she bought durians for like $5 per durian and normal vendors sold them at like $8 per kilo ( that's what I heard), so when the vendor offered $7 per kg, I didn't think that it was that expensive. Turns out, two durians were 7+ kg and costed $49!!! My parents could have bought two durians at $10!!

What's worse, the vendors couldn't even be bothered to give me two normal-quality durians. One was dried out but had a lot of fruit; the other was good but only had like 3 pieces of meat. So I was scammed into paying $49 for like total 12 pieces of durian meat.

$49 for 12 freaking pieces

The vendor even had the nerve to ask me to give them water because they were THIRSTY. So me, being the ever kind person, gave them a BOTTLE of water. He even tried to scam me out of my $1 change!!

Of course I felt stupid. Heck, I cried and kept scolding myself for being so damned dumb and gullible. Then 2 hours of grief later, I started to get angry. WHO ARE THEY, that they have the right to cheat a girl's innocence? WHO THE HECK ARE THEY to scam the hard-earned money of an honest man?

Whoever you are, if I ever see you again, I WILL SLAM THE DURIAN SHELLS INTO YOUR FACE.

 

IMAGINE THIS COLLIDING WITH YOUR DAMNED FACES

Luckily my mom and dad are really understanding people (their way of teaching me. It would've been another scenario had it been my brother hahaha...) 'cause they know that I'll beat myself up over this. My Dad practically LAUGHED IN MY FACE and kept saying "my daughter got scammed~" Not sure if I prefer this over some nagging.... Probably yes.

Anyway the next day, my mum drove me to school (weekly occurrence now haha) and we talked a bit.

My mum mentioned the standard three stages of repenting:

1. Guilt 

     You keep blaming yourself and feel really stupid

2. Levelling

     You start to realise that it isn't entirely your fault

3. Anger
     You feel that you are not to blame and put all the blame on the other party


And where you finally end at defines on your character. Most people always end up in stage 3 and always push the blame on everyone else. Those people are the most annoying (like my Dad and bro).

For me, I've learnt to never trust young vendors. Always bargain half-price. Plus I'll remember that bastard's face.

Plus, durians cost roughly $6 per durian (for normal quality ones) and those that really cost $20 per durian are the high-quality ones.
Good durians have very, very strong smell. Not-so-good ones do not emanate durain smell.

I've learnt how to buy durians at least.