So my lovely bride tells me last week that her friend's sister is starting out selling some sort of vacuum/air purifier dealie (Hyla, I think?) and needs people to help practice her sales pitch, and is coming to our house today. Now I've heard this from her before and every time she's agreed to this the "practice" becomes a hard sell. I tell her, "we have a brand new Dyson vacuum and I'm not convinced air purifiers are actually effective at anything other than making your wallet lighter. DO NOT agree to buy anything..." [At this point, I'm sure you see where this is going.]
She calls me about an hour ago:
Her: "I saw the air purifier demo today."
Me: And...?
Her: "I bought it."
Me: [Rolls eyes] "Why?"
Her: "It was really impressive"
Me: "Oh yeah? What does it do?"
Her: "Well, it purifies the air, and it, um, is a wet/dry vac, and... oh! it makes the house smell good..."
Me: [Eyes still rolling] "How much?"
Her: "$2000"
Me: [Almost falls out of chair] "Two thousand *goshdarn* dollars? It better do a hell of a lot more than mimic a small appliance we already own, and make the air smell good for $2000!"
Her: "Well, I have a 3 day return window, but I thought you might just want to see it first..."
Me: "Can they be back to pick it up before I get home from work?"
Her: "You don't even want to see it?"
Me: "Absolutely, positively not. Unless, of course, you want me to run over to Best Buy after work and buy $2000 worth of HD Home Theater equipment. Then maybe we can talk."
Her: "I'll call her right now..."
Jebus.
