Marta Moment #9

This was an actual conversation I overheard on the Marta:

"...just look at this stuff. Junk. Nothing is worth that much... You know, I'll tell you how to make money.... simply overprice something and then sell it to some rich fool... Rich people love to spend money on outrageously priced items.... no lamp is worth $4,000 dollars..."

"I guess you only have to sell a couple a year for it to be worth it..."

"Yah, people will buy anything... oh, hear this... I heard of a guy who was taking an upper level HTML course and for one of his projects he was suppose to set up a website where you could buy stuff online... Since it was just for a grade the products were usually funny, you know, widgets and junk... This guy coded up his website and then sent the link to the prof for grading. He went back a couple weeks later and saw that someone had placed an order for his product... get this, a tumbleweed! Yah, can you imagine that. Someone wanted to buy a tumbleweed. What'd he do? He fills out the order and sends this guy, or whoever it was, a tumbleweed... Now, he's making $40,000 a year selling tumbleweeds online!... all from a project in a class, so you never know..........."

"Dude!"....

What did I do went I arrived home?... Well, let's just say you can now buy dirt clods online...