I got hustled once, and I wouldda pretty pissed off it wasn't so funny/slick a hustle.
Basically me and an old housemate were walking home from town one day across a big playing field and this guy walks past and is like "Hey do you like Brandy?" and we're like meh not really (cos brandy is pretty gross) and he's like, "Oh, well what about rum?" and he pulls out 2 1litre bottles from his bag, one is Martells Brandy and another is a dark rum. So we're like hmmm okay. Then he says he has a little bottle of vodka and some duty-free tobacco too. And he says he only wants £20 for it all. So we're like okay brill.
After we hand over the money he asks where the train station is because he has to catch a train in 30 minutes and I say "Well you better run then because it takes just over 30 minutes to get there from here" so on my advice he runs off very fast.
After this my housemate is like "Wooo party" and he opens the bottle of rum and tries it. His face drops and he's like "Uhh.....Carys......Carys..." and looks all sad ".........it's water" so i was like
so I tried some and funnily enough it tasted just like water. Same for the brandy. We get out the 'vodka' and are hoping that it is actually real but that of course is water.
Then we look down at the tobacco pouch we've brought and are laughing out asses off thinking 'Jesus Christ if the tobacco is real wtf' so we open it, and basically we had paid this guy £20 for a £5 pouch of tobacco. Guess it goes to show that you shouldn't be so greedy. Pretty good con. He'd put tea-stained water in the bottles and sealed the tops back up with glue and the original foil.
When we get home with our bottles all our other housemates are excited to see what we have and one of them drops the rum all over the floor and it smashes. We pretended it was real rum so he had to get us another, but we gave up on that lie pretty quickly so we could share how funny this hustle was.
Also we kept the bottles and my ex-boyfriends dad came round one evening. He really loves Martells Brandy and carries a hipflask with him everywhere. He'd just run out and saw the bottle and asked if he could have some. Everybody in the room knew it was water but I said "Yeah sure, have a whole hipflask full" and we were all laughing in a drunken way. Well....his eyes lit up and he filled it up and took a big swig and then his eyes grew very sad and he said in a meak voice 'it's just water'. That made me feel rather guilty.
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Basically me and an old housemate were walking home from town one day across a big playing field and this guy walks past and is like "Hey do you like Brandy?" and we're like meh not really (cos brandy is pretty gross) and he's like, "Oh, well what about rum?" and he pulls out 2 1litre bottles from his bag, one is Martells Brandy and another is a dark rum. So we're like hmmm okay. Then he says he has a little bottle of vodka and some duty-free tobacco too. And he says he only wants £20 for it all. So we're like okay brill.
After we hand over the money he asks where the train station is because he has to catch a train in 30 minutes and I say "Well you better run then because it takes just over 30 minutes to get there from here" so on my advice he runs off very fast.
After this my housemate is like "Wooo party" and he opens the bottle of rum and tries it. His face drops and he's like "Uhh.....Carys......Carys..." and looks all sad ".........it's water" so i was like
so I tried some and funnily enough it tasted just like water. Same for the brandy. We get out the 'vodka' and are hoping that it is actually real but that of course is water.Then we look down at the tobacco pouch we've brought and are laughing out asses off thinking 'Jesus Christ if the tobacco is real wtf' so we open it, and basically we had paid this guy £20 for a £5 pouch of tobacco. Guess it goes to show that you shouldn't be so greedy. Pretty good con. He'd put tea-stained water in the bottles and sealed the tops back up with glue and the original foil.
When we get home with our bottles all our other housemates are excited to see what we have and one of them drops the rum all over the floor and it smashes. We pretended it was real rum so he had to get us another, but we gave up on that lie pretty quickly so we could share how funny this hustle was.
Also we kept the bottles and my ex-boyfriends dad came round one evening. He really loves Martells Brandy and carries a hipflask with him everywhere. He'd just run out and saw the bottle and asked if he could have some. Everybody in the room knew it was water but I said "Yeah sure, have a whole hipflask full" and we were all laughing in a drunken way. Well....his eyes lit up and he filled it up and took a big swig and then his eyes grew very sad and he said in a meak voice 'it's just water'. That made me feel rather guilty.
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