Revenge Alley

March 20, 2025

My wife laughed so hard, she almost fell out of her chair after I read the following letter out loud one morning over breakfast straight from the Louisville Courier Journal. It was a letter to 'Dear Abbey' and it went something like this:

Some guy was shopping for a new or late model Porsche through the newspaper classified ads. He came across an ad that read 'Late model Porsche, only a year old, less than 1000 miles, mint condition, $1.00.' At first the man laughed, thinking this is clearly a joke or some sort of scam. But just for the heck of it, he called the lady, and sure enough, the ad was true. He went over to her house, inspected the mint condition, low miles, almost new Porsche 911 and handed over a one dollar bill. The lady signed the title over to him, handed him the keys and walked off after telling him to have a nice day. The guy drove the Porsche home in utter disbelief as it really was a 1 year old Porsche in mint condition with less than 1000 miles on the odometer. The next day, curiosity got the better of him and he decided to call the lady who sold him the Porsche for a buck. 'Lady, I've GOT TO KNOW, why did you just sell me a $100,000.00 Porsche for $1.00?' The lady responded, 'I just got this letter from my husband, whom I haven't seen in almost a week telling me he left me for his secretary for a new life in a new country and that he specifically asked me to sell the new Porsche he just bought last year and to forward him the money...'