reading comprehension

[cos]

I'm selling a Sun D1000 RAID, and posted it on craigslist. One of the people who responded wanted to come take a look at it today, and suggested he might be able to stop by Cambridge on his way home from work. The following email exchange ensued, presented mostly without comment (his emails in italics):

Anyway my schedule indicates I have time to see the D1000 after 5:30 PM.

Okay, sounds good. It turns out I will be home until about 7pm today,
so if you come here after 5:30 that should work.

I'll come have a look at the array at 7:00 PM. [...] I'll see you at 7:00 PM.

I may be heading out at 7, will you get here right at 7 or a little before?

do you get out of work earlier any other day? I prefer around 5:30 because at 7:00 PM is dinner time for me. do expect to get out of work earlier any other day of this week?

I don't have a 9-5 office job. Like I said earlier, "I will be home until about 7pm today, so if you come here after 5:30 that should work."

okay, I'll come around that time. I'll call when I am at Hampshire st. see you later.

At that point, it was 5:20pm, and I figured he was about to leave work, so I went and did other things. When do you expect he called?

Yup. 7:15pm.

I responded with, "I'm sorry, I said I'd be home until 7pm and then I'm leaving", and he apologized for having misunderstood my emails.

P.S. My new favorite fortune cookie message, received tonight at Mary Chung:
"You Are Not Illiterate"

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Ooh. Okay. Daddy's looking at cameras lately, and a lot of the fancy ones from Canon are D(x)00.

Paul Frank is an artist who does motifs for (usually girls') clothing. Tshirts and pajamas and things like that. His style often looks, to me, like he draws using only MS Paint and its Circle/Oval tool, but maybe that's just me.

http://www.paulfrank.com/

...Not, afaik, related to Lisa Frank, who mostly does garish rainbow-hued stationery/school supplies with disgustingly cute motifs. (Twin golden retriever puppies was the least overcute motif, back when I was the right age for her to be popular.)