I’m quite a conservative guy, I avoid sticky situations and I dislike taking risks that are anything lower than 90%, but fate has it that I get into peculiar situations once in a while, such as the one tonight.

My boss announces at work today that there’s a killing to be made, high end computers selling for $200-300 a piece, market selling it for at least $700 or so. I quickly agree, hoping to make a very badly needed buck without finding the details first.

Come 5 hours later, I find out that I need to put in approximately $1,000 dollars more because everyone else has bailed out, we did not have enough, and the guy was on his way to deliver the 18 computers. I quickly borrow $800 from my friends (note, I almost NEVER borrow money) to make sure we don’t get shot by the guy when he finds out we don’t have the money.

It only gets better.

Next, I find out that the reason the computers are going so cheap is because the person’s cybercafe apparently burnt down, so the deal we’re getting involved in has “insurance fraud” written all over it. So there we were, sitting in the university car lot, almost $5,000 in 20 dollar bills, police cars periodically checking up on us because 8 people are crowding around an ATM at 11pm at night. Nothing fishy here sir. No sirreebob. Just a couple of college students gathering up cash to buy 18 insurance-fraud-computers.

I suppose it didn’t help either that the person who set this deal up is a maniac joker. Nope, it didn’t help that he went to the guy who was waiting at his house for half an hour for us to arrive and told him “Hey man, we decided not to go for it. It just isn’t worth it,” and tell him a minute later that he was joking. I’m just thankful he didn’t pull out a gun on us and proceed to rob us dry, because he very well could have.

So as it stands, I used the money that was meant for my insurance (I bet i’ll break something tomorrow), owe my friends money, and sitting on financial opportunity that could possibly land me in jail.

Next time, I’m sticking to the safer option of dealing drugs to children.