Coming Clean

I almost got scammed. I'm leaving Lee out of this because he is a man with a very fragile ego and may lash out in a passive agressive manner if I include him  in the vulnerability of what happened to us Sunday. Just kidding. It's embarrassing especially for me since I was rasied in an awesomely nuerotic, cynical family. (I mean that in a good way.) My husband is way more trusting by nature than me to begin with. People lie Lee, they do, it's true and we went one email too many with these scamming Jesus freaks. Oh, you want to hear the story? We occasionally check out Craigslist to see if there are any good deals on homes/apartments in the area we currently live. We love our apartment but it is expensive, so, finding something cheaper (Lee's reasoning) and being able to get a puppy (my secret agenda) keep us searching for that perfect place. Well guess what? We totally found it on Sunday!! A beautiful home on a gorg street and...what's this?! It's cheaper than our apartment!!?? How could that be?! We went to the house a few blocks over and peeped in the windows. All I saw was puppies...and a gourmet kitchen. I was literally screaming in Lee's face about how I had to live here. Now. I had to. I don't care. I'm moving in. This is it. Color me happy. Whatevs. I'm dying. It was perfect. Too good to be true....especially since the houses in this area for rent start at $2,500 and the rent for this home was WAY cheaper. What a miracle! By the time we got back to our apartment I had already emailed our current landlord, emailed the family from Craigslist, named our puppy, mapped out Lee's walk to work, and ordered a pizza. Well not the pizza but you get the idea. I got an email right back from the owners! YES! The family apparently had to relocate to Poland for his job, left the house vacant, were trying to sell it but couldn't due to the housing market, so, last option was to rent it out to some responsible tenants that would really take care of this nice property. We ARE RESPONSIBLE! Pick us! All the while I kept saying to Lee...this is too good to be true! (Wake up you moron, it is!!!) I was already a little suspicious since he said he was at a Jesus conference (hmmm) currently with his family in Nigeria. I googled "What time is it in Nigeria?" Answer: 4am. Huh. That's weird. I know you guys are thinking I'm a complete idiot, but, you didn't see the kitchen island or the big beautiful tree in the backyard. So don't judge.I email the nice, but weird man who spelled disapoint with 2 S's back and gave him our address, phone numbers, professions, and our names. (nice going c) I tell him we are currently renting and this all is pending on our current landlord letting us out of our agreement relatively painlessly which is sort of like hoping that everytime you eat ice cream you lose weight. (I'm wrapping this up now) So, he emails me back, around midnight saying they've decided we can live in their home and they will send us the keys in the mail..all we have to do is wire them the $500 security deposit. Uh oh. UH OH! OH NO!! I was pissed. They killed my puppy, so to speak. I was more embarrassed that the whole time we knew it seemed weird. Listen to your instincts. Oh, and the fact they were in NIGERIA should've been a clue. Oh, and the fact that when you google Craiglist scams this one is in the top 5. Great. Moral of the story: Don't trust people attending Jesus conferences in Nigeria. Just kidding, kinda...If it's too good to be true, IT IS.