This might not be a bad thing. This might be a very bad thing. I'm not sure, and I'm currently afraid to do anything further to confirm what is going on.
While exiting a parking lot to go home, an SUV pulls up next to me and a guy leans out the window and says "Hey Bro, You wanna home theater system!? We just go 2 for free, man!" Blindsided and confused, I back up and park. I am then greeted by two... 'Bros.' I don't know what else to call them. They were a slightly less exaggerated form of the stupid, happy go lucky, and constantly drunk frat boy archetype despite not actually being frat boys. Anyway, they eagerly talk about how they say that due to a shipping error, they got two extra sets of speakers (6:1) and that if they go to their job where they were to deliver the order of two less than the amount they had, they would be obligated to hand over the extra two which the installation guys would then sell for their own profit or something. I wound up letting them know that I only had about $200, and that was in the bank. Here's where I got really stupid. At this point I'm starting to have second thoughts and trying to talk my way out of it without being direct. They insist that I get the money as they've already decided in their minds that it's a done deal. Having no experience in social situations and absolutely no actual happening of social interaction outside of family and school work related conversations, I somehow get talked into it. One opens up the box and shows me that it indeed is filled with speakers. And not knowing what else to do, I hand over the money and send them on their merry way.
I have now bought a possibly stolen $1999 surround sound stereo system for $200 . And I'm not sure whether to keep it or go to craigslist.
However, I'm currently far more worried about how the hell I managed to be manipulated that easily. I'm very much worried that what few social skills I acquired through the public education system are atrophying and the likelihood of gaining any positive relationships is steadily dropping day by day.