Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 30, 2010
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling "The Education of Louis" Boy: Hey, Louis. You waiting for your ride? Louis: Huh? Yeah. Boy: What'd you just stuff into your pockets there? Louis: My pockets? Louis: Oh, these. Yeah, they're collector's items I'm going to sell on eBay. I was examining their condition. Boy: What are they? Louis: They're called figures or figurines or something, from the Star Wars movies. careful. Boy: Huh. How much you get for 'em? Boy #2: Lemme. Louis: Well, I bought them for $15 from a dude in Summit... Louis: I'm pretty sure I'll get $50. Boy: Fifty bucks?! Louis: Yeah, it's sort of a side business. Boy: Sweet. Boy #2: Not even in-box! Louis: Yeah, I guess some doofuses really go for this stuff. Boy: Well, it's not really $35 profit -- who pays shipping? Louis: Um, eBay pays for shipping. Yeah, so it's total profit. Boy: You think you could get me in on this kind of thing? Louis: We could talk about it. Boy #1: Cool. See ya, Maltby. Boy #2: $35! Sounds like bull. Louis: Yeah. Louis: Whew. Louis: Look out! Noooo! Pow!
Possum Pete almost 15 years ago
ebay pays for shipping? I thought you paid ebay for everything including PayPal. They’ve got quite the money-maker going.
Durak Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Pretty quick kid.
skiokanagan almost 15 years ago
clever dude
Dmajor almost 15 years ago
Boy knows how to side-step a beating! Smart.
Charles Weir almost 15 years ago
Notice how the kid in the red hat was complaining that Chewbacca wasn’t in a box? Closet collector there.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I amassed a huge collectgion of comic books by convincing my parents that they were an investment.
(Clarification: I spent all my own money on comic books; I didn’t talk my parents into using them as their retirement plan…)
debra4life50 almost 15 years ago
This isn’t weird enough for Tom the Dancing Bug. This could realisticaly be happening to any kid on any sidewalk in North America.
number9dream almost 15 years ago
“I will find a city, find myself a city to live in.”
Cities Talking Heads, Fear of Music
GwenMarieFul almost 15 years ago
Why the heck would he get beat up for Star Wars Action Figures?? The original ones really are worth a chunk of change on eBay!