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@Kernowdreamer
Facebook marketplace sellers.
Usually it’s a case of establishing it’s still for sale, saying you will be round to collect, asking for directions, then.......nothing, end of conversation.
Today was a riot of dimness on an epic scale. The directions given were crap. I only got remotely near by relating the name of the house (Moor cottage) to satellite images. In an area where anyone’s neighbours are at least two fields away we took a chance that a 1/2 mile long farm road would have a sign at the end to the house we were looking for - fortunately, it did. Once on the right trail we had to negotiate 3/4 mile of rough stony track which my car kept bottoming out on. No warning about that. We were bang on time but the seller wasn’t in! 5 mins later they turned up to say they had gone down to the road to save us driving down the track! Funny, we didn’t pass you.
“Oh we came from town , I picked my son up from school. I have what you want in the car”
Ah, that will be town 5 miles (and 10,000 miles of tyre wear) away, where we have just come from, cheers”
Dumb ass.