Do people try to take advantage of your supposed naivety?

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The other day when I was in a convenient store buying a drink, the clerk thought I was gullible and tried to charge me extra for the straw. I was depressed for the rest of the day. Just when I think things are improving, stupid things like this get in the way. It's good to vent.

a few times Ive had people make fun of me right in front of me to my face, but I didnt know it was about me.

thats why i do my shopping online. i wont say i "get taken advantage of" but, at places like best buy and radioshack, the staff does treat me like an idiot.

at gamestop once, i was trying to buy a trucking simulation game, when i got to the counter the clerk said "do you think you're gonna like this? you just drive a truck around the country.." of course he wanted to sign me up for their magazine and get me to pre-order halo or gta4 or something, and looked at me like a freak when i told him i wasnt into those games.

then once i was looking to buy a used PS2 from them, as well as the network card, the guy looked at me and said "well what is it you're trying to do?" i responded "im trying to buy a PS2 and a network card" he got quiet and rang me up.

When I was in sixth grade, my nieghbor (who was in seventh grade) was involved in a fundraiser and selling magazines to raise money for the school. She came to my house and tried to sell me the crappy magazine that she knew that no one else wanted.

I love it when people do this, because I can f**k around with them and they don't even realize it. It's so much fun watching porn at a loud volume when a telemarketer wants to sell me something, or to make offhand comments about big boobs when a woman tries to sell me nail products (??! !) People are dumb, and I love every second of it.

One time, this guy was trying to wheel and deal with me, selling music and than he started talking about intimate relationships. It was like, "Whoa...I'm getting away from you!" Needless to say, I didn't go into the soup kitchen to volunteer the week after.

I once was in the market for a 1990 Super Coupe( a supercharged thunder bird) , and the salesman try to give me a deal on the display one that had been wrecked. Someone drove through the dealership window at night and crashed into this car , but the dealership restored it to like new.

He offerd me 2000 off the price, but it was also an 89 model year; then I said to him to also depreciate it for another year , and maybe I'll consider it.

I said anyone would automatically lose another year the moment you drove off the lot with this car. If I sold it tomorrow it would be considered another year older and hence one year depreciated.

He tried to play a shell game with me and confused the issue with wholesale and retail market pricings.

I plainly told him the above^ and he kept circularly reasoning that I'm off with my reasoning. I walked out as quick as I could.

I was young then (25) and I don't know if it was that; if I look like a sucker, or if it's just the bottom feeder's car sales terrain.

Yes, people very often try to take advantage of me because they assume I'm naive enough to fall for it. It's really annoying.

When I'm out in public, 98% of the time I'm either with friends who are NTs, or I'm working. As I work for an armored truck company, that means I'm wearing body armor and a gun on my hip and people tend to not f**k with me too much then.

A fake friend talked me into sharing a diary with them at school. She photocopied pages and shared them around the school.

A women who befriended me (in my early 20's) was also a fake friend. she gave me mixed messages, saying she only wanted to be friends and when I wrote her a love-letter she threatened to ask the cops to charge me with harrassment while playing it down as a joke, while only meeting up with me alone and acting flirty. one day with her I accidentally triggered a panic attack, she tried to go through with her threat but the cops figured something was up. I now know she has a histrionic personality disorder with major anxiety/panic disorder.

After that I got therapy for undiagnosed PTSD (not related to her) and my "bad people" instincts have improved remarkably.

My wife loves to make fun of me. I am really bad a sarcasm, and she uses that for all it's worth. She can make up the weirdest things like even what we will have for dinner. She have had some awesome lies about that. Like potatoepasta. "Oh it's great" she says. "We just add ginger"". That one I actually believed...
Basically shes training me in "sarcasm". ...which I suck at bigtime.

About 10 years ago, I bought my first car on my own (had bought one previously with a cosigner). After filling out the paperwork, I headed home with my new car. The next day, when I returned from lunch, my boss told me that the finance company had called. She said, did you tell them that you are the "Assistant Director" and that you make this much money (about 3k more than what I was making)?? I said no, I told them I am the Administrative Assistant, and that I make exactly what you pay me. She said, "Well, he said he would call back to speak with you this afternoon."

I immediately called the dealership and asked for the salesman. I told him what happened, and he said, he would get his manager. His manager was busy, so he said he would have him call me back. In the meantime, the finance officer called and asked what happened. I told him the truth, and asked him to send me a copy of the application that had been sent to him, thinking they had whited out and changed the numbers. When I received the fax, I was appalled to find that the entire application had been rewritten. What the manager failed to realize when he wrote up the application was that I watched the sales guy write up my app, and knew that he had written everything in sentence case. The manager, however, filled the app out in upper case. I explained this to the finance officer, and he said he would have a talk with the manager.

The manager called immediately after, and said, "Did you talk to him?" I said, "Yes." He said, "What did you tell him?" I said, "The truth." He said, "Oh, no! We were afraid you wouldn't get the car, so we redid the application so it would be approved." I was furious!! I told him that what he did was fraud, and it was punishable by law. I also told him I wanted to have a meeting with him that afternoon. I was livid. My boss's husband even offered to go have a talk with him for me, but I said I would do it myself. By the time I got to the dealership, the manager was all kinds of apologetic. I told him that what he did was punishable by law, and that I was still deciding if I was going to press charges or not. He said that the finance officer had a long talk with him about the situation, and he was very sorry he did it. He offered me free oil changes for as long as I had the car.

The really gullible part?? I accepted the oil changes and let it go.

To be honest though, I was so drained by the whole mess, I didn't want to keep it going. If they can't get me with my gullibility, all they have to do is wear me down...sigh

Not lately. But in school my sister's friends gave me a bun that had fallen on the ground. The one with the pink icing.
Before I knew of this I kept staring at it. Then they gave in and said it fell on the ground before I had even decided to eat it.

My eldest sister once made me lick soap because she said it was candy.

My sister closest to my age once tricked me into eating dog chocolate treats.

I hate my siblings.