We may have an answer to what the strange man was doing in Philip’s wife’s office trying to pressure her into signing up for natural gas.
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A Long Con Doesn’t Go Very Far
Philip’s story reminds us of We’re reminded of The Spanish Prisoner where the the rube thinks he’s signing an exclusive membership agreement. It turns out he’s really putting his name to an extradition request to Venezuela which later gets used against him in a Machiavellian conman apparatchik.