Drier Sale

Before leaving Japan, Elin and I sold or gave away lots of stuff. We'd installed a drier to dry diapers and a fellow came over to buy it, another gaijin - foreigner. We made a deal that he would pick it up the day we left and signed an agreement. When I signed he said, "No - sign your name not mine." I said but your name's not David." "Well actually it is. Charles (or whatever it was) is my middle name." I then tried to sell him our car. When you bought a car in Japan back then, you had to spend a ton of obligatory money getting everything changed and spiffy - like a thousand dollars. And there's a fee that's high. So I told him he could just keep my car papers cause it already says it's his. He almost bought it.