One time I didn't pay my car payment on time. The bank called me and asked what was up. I said I didn't have any money. "But it's only $160!" bank man said. "I know. I don't have it." I would hate to have his job, calling up people and berating them in his subtle, nonplussed way. OK, he wasn't berating me, and $160 really isn't a lot for a car payment, but I didn't have it. I was 27, that's my excuse.
My boyfriend and I are moving in together this month and we decided to draft a couples contract because he thinks I'm a little dangerous. Money doesn't rule my life, so there must be something wrong with me. Granted he hasn't said these things out loud, but those are the stories I've heard all my life in America. Don't you want the American Dream? Don't you want money pouring out of your ears? The funny part is that I've gotten the most money when I wanted it the least.
My hairdresser told me the marketing or negotiating theory goes like this: The person who wants it the least will get it.
I think that may be problematic, though, if I really, really don't want something.
Wanting makes people so unattractive. Homeless people want things - that's why they are so scary! And marketers.
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