Famous Writer Film Director Buys Deep Book

So, Mr. Famous in a Lot of Circles buys a very intellectual and totally unfathomable book from me.  I liked this guy's movies and his short stories.  Debated for a good ten minutes about including a note telling him this in his order.  Thought better of it; that it might be misconstrued as stalking, and maybe this was not the best of ideas.  So I did not.  But I still have his address, and should I ever be in Brooklyn.....

Oops, I Beg You. Let Me Cancel. My Wife is Pregnant

This is a shaggy dog story of sorts.  A bit of southern gothic, and a tad of is he or isn't he buying it for himself?

It goes like this:  I had a size XXL Isaac Mizrahi chambray dress to sell.  Way back when, Isaac designed for Target.  He was one of the first, if not the first, designer to do collections for Target.  He did everything from shoes to linens to clothing and accessories for dogs.  Well, rather than the latter, I bought a chambray shirtwaist dress and then never wore it since I decided it looked way too school teachery.  So it hung in my closet for maybe five years, and to use the eBay parlance, I decided to sell it NWT (New With Tags.)

Little nibbles here and there but nobody bid on it for a couple of weeks.  It was almost going to go into the Goodwill bag, but then I received a message from Robert who proudly proclaimed he was from Arkansas.  He was interested in buying the dress as a surpize for his wife's birthday, and he wanted to know if a pair of first class plane tickets would fit in the pocket.  That should've been my first clue--who has real tickets these days?

And then...and then...he started emailing.  Here's a sample:  sorry to bother you again but I failed to make certain the dress doesn't contain any spandex because she is allergic to it

ok I promise I'm about done picking on you and I'll try to ask everything so I can decide on it. Glad its wasn't floral because I'm not a big fan of it. I know my wife worries about wrinkles when she wears a dress and I think its because shes self conscious about her weight and how a wrinkled dress draws attention to the fact that she is quite heavy. Lord she'd kill me for saying this but I have to admit I've noticed one dress in particular does do that because whenever she stands up from sitting even after just a few minutes the dress has some pretty intense creases from where she has sat on top of it. So how well do you think this dress will do in that regard? This question is just something I want to know .


Maybe ten emails in the same stream of consciousness style followed.
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Finally:

I hate doing this but is it possible to cancel our deal? Here's what I wasn't aware of until yesterday, my wife is pregnant! I noticed she had been gaining a little weight but I didn't think to much about it. She wasn't quite ready to tell me just yet because to be honest I wasn't ready just yet to be a dad so she was holding off a little longer to break the news to me. Well I had written you name and address on a piece of paper and she found it in my shirt pocket and lets just say she was quite unhappy at the time. She was sure I was doing something wrong so I had to tell her why I had you name in my pocket but not before she told me she was pregnant. I was sure in the doghouse there for a while! Everything is fine now but she's to big for the dress. I don't know what to do about the dress now so I'm going to leave it up to you. If your ok with just canceling it thats fine but I understand times are tough and you may be needing the money and I did agree to buy it from you so I'm fine with that to. I want to do whats fair to you and your the only one that can decide what you feel is fair. You,ve been very understanding and nice to me so I'll do whatever you wish. Just let me know what you decide and we'll go from there.

Was I ever happy to cancel his order...One thing I enjoy doing on eBay is answering questions, but Robert's were so weird, and the stories he told just so wacky....

And then I read through his feedback...always the same kind of thing: buying a dress in a large size...for his "wife" or "daughter."

Any thoughts?

How the Parade Started

Ah, public education in California.  Three pay cuts in two years, no paid health insurance...the necessity of not living on a flattened refrigerator cardboard box in front of Macy's...hey!  I've got tons of clothes I can sell.  Being a packrat might pay off...hence my foray into the world of eBay.  It has been several years now, and I have "met" all sorts of individuals, some famous, some infamous, some that really made me wonder about humanity.  This blog will attempt to share with the world some of the tales from the passing parade of eBay characters.