Four Quirky Short Story Compilation Lifetime Guarantee Series and Money Grows on Trees |
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Author:
| Wyner, Steven |
ISBN: | 978-1-4912-6247-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $6.99 |
Book Description:
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Four quirky short stories inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock Presents Television Show. Are lifetime guarantees really enforceable? In Mattress Sale a lawyer tests one of those ubiquitous lifetime guarantee labels sewn onto to his mattress forty years ago with startling consequences. In Ripply Motor Cars, a third generation car salesman is finally faced with having to make good on an offer he'd been making all his life, but which no one had ever taken him up on until now.In Carpet Swirls,...
More DescriptionFour quirky short stories inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock Presents Television Show. Are lifetime guarantees really enforceable? In Mattress Sale a lawyer tests one of those ubiquitous lifetime guarantee labels sewn onto to his mattress forty years ago with startling consequences. In Ripply Motor Cars, a third generation car salesman is finally faced with having to make good on an offer he'd been making all his life, but which no one had ever taken him up on until now.In Carpet Swirls, the last of the Lifetime Guarantee Series, a young housewife is duped into buying an expensive vacuum cleaner with lifetime guarantee that promises much more than anyone would even want or need.In Money Grows on Trees, Hank is a loser with woman, and works in a dead end job with a fancy title but nowhere to go but down. Then one day the hotel where he works is held up on the graveyard shift by masked men and they get away with all the loot, providing a kooky opportunity to get rich quick. But Hank's plans go awry when man and nature conspire against his full proof plan and he discovers that money only grows on trees for a select few.