[Stephen]

Isn't that a question for the random thread then? Unless you are ranting about having too many visitors. The answer is because you are SO awesome, of course. Duh.

I think he's raving about it, but I suspect he's written an app and created a dummy account to pad out his visitor count.

[SoftBoiledLife]

I hate losing...


Damn. The big fish got away. Boss and I figured it wasn't worth pursuing the landlord further for cash. We could've gotten so much more out of her if it weren't for the fact that

(1) She wasn't rational at all. She was willing to pay her lawyers $25,000 just to not have to pay the tenant $7,500. Yeah. Emotions rising high at their worst. If I'd thought she wasn't going to litigate this, I would've pushed back;
(2) She could have declared bankruptcy to avoid paying us; and
(3) There was a small booboo. We discovered after the settlement that our client illegally obtained documents showing she's swimming in cash. It could've been material, but I had a hunch the judge would have dismissed that as inadmissible.


I'm learning that you can't win an argument against and idiot, and you most certainly can't win a war against an irrational fool who doesn't play by the rules of game theory. It's only in the cartoons Batman is able to beat an anarchist sociopath like Joker at his own game. Wish it'd been the same here!


EDIT: That experience really pushes me to go into tax law. None of this emotional bullshit getting in the way of things. But if there's one satisfaction my boss and I got, it's that this landlord is going to find out that making an impulsive decision to spend that much on expensive attorneys wasn't worth it. I can think of a lot of things I can do with $25,000...

Guess this means all non-ISTJ wimmins' need an ISTJ man to manage their bills!

[Adrift]

Child-proofing candle lighters. I really dislike laws that are passed in the name of "protecting the children". If a kid plays with lighters, it's probably the fault of the parents, the kid, and not the manufacturer. I can't find a single lighter that operates with a gentle push of a button. My elderly mom can't operate these child-proof lighters, so she uses long matches.

[SoftBoiledLife]

Child-proofing candle lighters. I really dislike laws that are passed in the name of "protecting the children". If a kid plays with lighters, it's probably the fault of the parents, the kid, and not the manufacturer. I can't find a single lighter that operates with a gentle push of a button. My elderly mom can't operate these child-proof lighters, so she uses long matches.

Blame it on today's chickenshit society. We're all so afraid of everything. Steel-enforced cars and seatbelts I get--cars are natural safety hazards. Toss in the way the media is constantly finding new ways to scare us into believing every man is a child molestor and everything causes cancer. There's a good reason I wasn't able to find the owner of this really playful golden retriever that was following me around a few months ago. I kept knocking on doors around my area to ask whether anyone would know the dog's owner. Everyone was too scared to open the door for some tall, skinny dude with a friendly-looking dog on a bright sunny day. Everyone today is scared of everything. It makes me wonder whether we'll all one day be to scared to lend a helping hand to help each other.


/Negativity

[Adrift]

So what'd you do with the dog? I almost hit a golden retriever two years ago that was running loose. I stopped but the guy in the pick-up behind me didn't. Fortunately, it was a low-impact collision.

[SoftBoiledLife]

So what'd you do with the dog? I almost hit a golden retriever two years ago that was running loose. I stopped but the guy in the pick-up behind me didn't. Fortunately, it was a low-impact collision.

Let it go. I was living with my parents at that time, so there was no way I could've held onto it. I vaguely recall seeing it a few weeks later, so I'm assuming it's fine. Probably just broke free from its owner's home. Playful and somewhat obedient, so someone took the trouble to train it.

[CorgiGirl]

I may or may not have had some of my money stolen by the housemate who pays the bills.

[SoftBoiledLife]

I may or may not have had some of my money stolen by the housemate who pays the bills.

O_O

Buy a safe...

[CorgiGirl]

O_O

Buy a safe...

Oh sorry, what I actually meant was she might have asked for more money because she used some of the money for personal reasons. Or she might have legitimately needed more money to cover the bills than she originally expected. But somehow it doesn't quite add up. We normally pay $65 each and were doing fine with that. But she needed $95 each this time around. One of my friends doesn't trust her. He used to be friends with her and said that she used to complain about how she only got $20 or $30 for food every week. And yet she has enough money for alcohol and other possible drugs. That part was never explained to him but he brought up his stealing theory when I told him about the extra money. And honestly, I don't 100% trust her either.

[SoftBoiledLife]

Oh sorry, what I actually meant was she might have asked for more money because she used some of the money for personal reasons. Or she might have legitimately needed more money to cover the bills than she originally expected. But somehow it doesn't quite add up. We normally pay $65 each and were doing fine with that. But she needed $95 each this time around. One of my friends doesn't trust her. He used to be friends with her and said that she used to complain about how she only got $20 or $30 for food every week. And yet she has enough money for alcohol and other possible drugs. That part was never explained to him but he brought up his stealing theory when I told him about the extra money. And honestly, I don't 100% trust her either.

$30 more for 3 people? $90 more for utilities? Was there a cold spell or a heat wave that required you guys turn on the heater/air con longer? Ask her for a receipt or something.