S6E25 - The Laptop (Scarecast Originals)
The Scarecast: Scary Stories, Mysteries, and True Crime
Michael Crutchfield
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
"The Laptop" written by Gtripp14 (Scarecast Originals)
This laptop may cost the protagonist much more than $100, it could very well end up being the most expensive purchase of his life.
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| 0:00.0 | The laptop, written by G-Trip14, I messed up pretty bad on this one, I just needed a laptop |
| 0:14.4 | but didn't have a lot of cash to get one. |
| 0:18.8 | My final essays to graduate high school were getting close. |
| 0:24.1 | School had a computer lab but there was no free time during the day to use them. |
| 0:29.6 | New York City is in cheap. |
| 0:33.0 | After Dad left, Mom had to get a second job and I had to start working part-time at their |
| 0:39.4 | school at Miss Vitale's Corner Store just to help make the bills. |
| 0:46.2 | By the time I got off, the school's lab was closed and I was shit out of luck. |
| 0:54.0 | I managed to save up 100 bucks over the course of a few months but it wasn't even enough |
| 0:59.6 | to buy the most reasonable Chromebook on the market at the time. |
| 1:04.8 | As I walked home at their school one day, I mentioned to my friend Nathan that I was hoping |
| 1:10.2 | to find a cheap laptop online. |
| 1:14.5 | I wish I'd never mentioned it. |
| 1:17.2 | There's a guy who sells computers and shit out of a van, behind pizza mics near your |
| 1:22.1 | house. |
| 1:23.1 | He said coolly. |
| 1:25.5 | He sets up back there every Friday about some AirPods off him a few weeks ago for 20 |
| 1:30.7 | bucks. |
| 1:31.7 | So I was probably stolen but hey it's cheap. |
| 1:36.0 | That sounds too shady man. |
| 1:38.2 | I replied. |
| 1:39.2 | Besides, what if I give him all the money I've gotten the laptop craps out on me? |
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