I bought a used book
I bought a used book from someone today. I agreed over email, before I saw the book, that I would be willing to pay $50 for it. Anyway, I met this person to get the book, and it turns out that the book is not what I thought it was: 1) it's paperback, and 2) it's an international edition or something--so the cover is all in Chinese (and, in my opinion, it's pretty ugly, too). So I don't think I'll be able to sell it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. But I paid the $50 for it, maybe because I'm slow and didn't think about these things, and maybe because the person I was buying it from was a friend of a friend and so I didn't really want to be stubborn about it.
I guess I'm sort of mad this person for not telling me these details about the book beforehand, but really, I can't blame her. Mostly I'm pissed at myself--pissed that I was too chicken to say something, to refuse to buy the book or at least lower my price.
AND--
I'm annoyed that this bothers me so much in the first place. Why can't I just shrug my shoulders, learn from my mistake, and move on? Instead, I'm here bitching about it.