I don’t even know what to put here. MHG had been trying for two weeks to get in touch with the real estate agent in charge of her dreams. Today. she received a call back with the message, “Oh, the landlord’s been in negotiations with [someone with a less geeky store concept] for a while now.”<\/p>\n
Well, thanks for getting back to us with that vital information before we started working or putting any sort of emotional energy towards that particular location. Good customer service that.<\/p>\n
I’m sorry that we didn’t show up in suits to see the torn-up guts of the building we were considering. I guess we must not be serious about this.<\/p>\n
And thank you for acting excited (poorly) about our idea when you really didn’t have any intention of selling the property to us. We’ve learned our lesson.<\/p>\n
For someone who loves games as much as I do, you’d think I would have learned the rules of this one faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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