We all know that feeling when it gets to the end of the month, counting down the hours until payday, when our bank balances are topped up once again. Looking for ways to tide ourselves over is nothing out of the norm.
But when Emma Taylor posted a photo of her, well, let’s say “shabby chic” sofa online, she was hoping to find a customer who’d take it off her hands. When a customer got in touch, she couldn't quite believe her luck
But 21-year-old Facebook fiend Joe Cordingly had actually taken offence to Ms Taylor’s sales techniques, and decided to step in, after seeing her try to “sell [the] piece of shit relentlessly.” Ms Taylor, of St Annes in Lancashire, didn’t blink an eyelid when Mr Cordingley got in touch with her online, and wasted no time in asking if she’d saw her sofa into pieces.
After convincing the seller he wanted the chopped up sofa was for an art project, this joker asked Ms Taylor to send over some pictures of her posing next to the couch, wielding her saw before chopping, “just so [he was] sure.”
With the all clear from Mr Cordingley that the saw fitted the bill, Ms Taylor got cutting, sending over a photo of the now decimated setae as proof. She lives with her seven-year-old daughter, but neither of them seemed to think anything was awry.
“U best flipping turn up for it”, she messaged the online customer… but he never did.
Finally a friend of Ms Taylor came over to see her, suggesting she stop her ninety minute sawing session, after coming across Mr Cordingley’s updates online. The penny finally dropped.
She wasn’t alone; the Facebook post has gone on to receive over 85,000 likes and counting, with 70,000 people sharing the pictures for a laugh.
A lesson for us all? I think so.
