The person liaising with you was my colleague who I worked at the same company with. I have been hanging out with him at work for a few years - whether be it when we have downtime during working hours or when we were forced to attend the same team-building events by our company - but it was only last week that I learnt he play Yu-Gi-Oh! I know how to play but don't own any actual deck (as I have been playing on ygopro and a bit of Master Duel), hence our intention to buy a deck from you just so I can play with him.

He initially offered to not only help to find a seller and liaise with you, but to meet up with you and buy the cards for me as well, which was one reason why I felt okay to drop a hundred bucks into buying a deck just to play with him. He lives in Yishun and has a car, and as he himself says, he can meet up with you for the deal easily. Thanks to these factors, I find myself entirely comfortable leaving it completely to him to make the deal for me.

However, for some inexplicable reason, the next day, he decided to ask me to meet you myself instead, knowing full-well that I live in Tampines and do not have a car, therefore requiring a 1.5-hour transit. When I asked him about it, his reason was, and I quote, "Troublesome la need to drive to amk hub go park then cross over to amk mrt meet him 🤡"

I'll be honest, I completely hate human drama. I used to play other trading card games when I was in poly / NS / uni, and when I graduated and got a job, I immediately quitted, telling myself, "Damn man, now that I am going to have a job, I don't think I am going to have enough energy to put up with these fxxxers whom I have to put up with so I can play my children's card games and yet give me shit every time we play, with them being sore losers and rage quitters and blaming luck and bad draws instead of trying to analyze why they lose in hopes of improving themselves." (I can rant about the group of people I used to hang out with to play trading card games previously, but I am getting sidetracked.)

And here I am, seven years later, back to this human drama with Mr Troublesome-la-need-to-drive-to-amk-hub-go-park-then-cross-over-to-amk-mrt-meet-him-🤡 I'm literally finding myself too old for this shit. I decided to just nope out and stopped speaking to him. That was yesterday morning, and we have been on non-speaking terms for the past two days. I must admit though, if there is something positive I can find from this experience, it is that he raised this red flag before I made the financial investment and not after.

Admittedly, I am wondering if he would do the same thing to his girlfriend in the future. Perhaps he would propose to her, make wedding arrangements, and then at the day of their wedding, tell her, "Troublesome la need to drive to ur house go park then cross over to ur house meet u 🤡" I am admittedly pretty tempted to say this to him in his face, but then that would just be more unnecessary drama just so I can get a last word in, which I hope you would understand by now is something I am clearly trying to avoid.

Once again, my sincerest apologies for wasting your time, effort, and energy. Please rest assured that it was never my intention that you become the unwitting victim of this very-stupid, very-immature drama. I sincerely hope that you can find the same closure from my apology and explanation as I did.