He said there was no three-day waiting period. He said the car was mine.

It turned out that the VIN [vehicle identification number] on the contract was off by one digit.

I told the salesman I had to leave, but he kept talking. Then he would say, 'Don't go. I'll be right back,' and he'd walk away. I'm a polite guy, so I waited till he came back. But he always had more to say and more ways to make the deal seem attractive. He wore me out.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

It will be like some sort of painting with huge chunks missing.

Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.