Something weird

steingar

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Last week I flew out to a local airport to purchase a juvenile tortoise for a pet. I call her Rosie, she's a 3-month-old South American red-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis carbonaria. I'll post up some photos as soon as I download them from my camera. She's a cute little thing.

There are a number of things I wanted to get for her (I think Rosie is a she, though it is a touch difficult to tell when they're young) little world, including a nice big water dish that she could easily get into and out of. I started poking around on Amazon, and looked at one just like this:

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I thought the ones on Amazon were just a touch pricey, and wound up buying one on Ebay.

So yesterday, a box arrives from Amazon. It contains pictured water dish.

Alzheimers runs in my family, and I am becoming convinced that perhaps I am a sufferer. I have no memory at all of ordering this from Amazon. None. Amazon has no history of me ordering this, though they also don't show th ebooks I bought last July. I check my financials, and I haven't paid for one. I then call Amazon (I don't want to get charged for this).

The gal who answers the phone looks and looks, and winds up concluding that the store that sent this thing (with two-day shipping no less) gave it to me as a gift. I don't know these guys from Adam, never saw or met them. Weird.

I guess I should look at more stuff on Amazon.
 
"Hey Bob, what're we gonna do with this piece of sh*t?"

"Let's just send it to this guy as a gift."
 
Just out of curiosity, what kind of pet was it that you purchased the tortoise for?
 
They want to make sure you treat the tortoise right.
 
I bet the turtle ordered it because you were too cheap to pull the trigger.
 
I bet the Amazon and eBay seller were the same guy. Probably just sent it through his Amazon shipping account. How would the Amazon seller even know you were looking at it?
 
I bet the Amazon and eBay seller were the same guy. Probably just sent it through his Amazon shipping account. How would the Amazon seller even know you were looking at it?
That's what I thought.
But I thought the Alzheimer excuse was pretty convincing too.
 
That's what I thought.
But I thought the Alzheimer excuse was pretty convincing too.

I was seriously questioning my own cognitive functions. Scary stuff. There is no way the Amazon guy is the same as the Ebay guy, since the latter is in Hong Kong.

The best I can figure is the seller in Ky knows me somehow, though I have no idea how or even how he or she knew I was looking at this item. Weird is all I can say.
 
Maybe the person you acquired the tortoise from sent it to you.... Or had someone send it to you. Gift and all that.
 
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