Posted on 08/09/2007 4:50:35 AM PDT by Wolfie
It took them months to send a thanks for buying a service they had to perform in a timely fashion? Geesh, they’re slow and slacking there.
Yeah, I did. LOL
I think you mean that’s his next gift - we’ll send it to him.
(Tony had dined there the night before with his mistress.)
I'm guessing Tony tips well.
Now that’s funny.
Good point. You are absolutely right.
‘the credit card charge will show up as “Almalgamated Gasoline” or some such thing’
Uh, methinks that would be fraud. It could not possibly be legal for a service or credit company to do that.
Nonsense. What’s mine is yours, etc. You SHOULD be able to open the mail of those in your household’s family; if you are treated as 1 entity by the outside world, why in heck not in your own household? YOU should be TRUSTWORTHY enough not to worry about anyone opening your mail.
Yea, he got his payback.
It actually is marital funds...she is entitled to one half of the whole...don’t forget it.
I agree.
But you know in this heavily PC climate, “marital status”, including “cheater”, would be protected under the non-discrimination acts!
Of course, in the natural world, yes, you could kick out (and keep out) any person you wanted for any dumb reason. Never mind a good reason like that.
Rule of thumb (or whatever): When buying something for the mistress, buy the exact same thing at the exact same time for the wife. Also avoids confusion when asking how she liked the gift later on.
I’m like you, Robert. I never open my wife’s mail, even junk mail, and she never opens mine. I trust my wife completely. She’s the straightest arrow I’ve ever known. Some years ago, I put all our assets in her name for certain reasons. Later we changed that.
Wow, CD, sorry to hear all that!
I hope you get custody. It’s so hard for fathers. My brother went through that with his materialistic lazy wife with the drunken shack-up father.
The funny thing is, in your case, it should be a slam-dunk that the mother is not fit to raise the kids - she’d be a moral abyss for sure. Cheating, drunkenness, drunk driving? She’s a great example for them.
Why are they giving out financial information?
Do they have an actual financial disclosure authorization?
This is how identity theft occurs.
ANYONE calls up and claims to be my wife and they will get my bill with credit card and address data?
Not passing judgment on the deed. Just saying the actual law is VERY clear on this.
Then again, maybe the guy WANTED to get caught so he could break up beyond a reasonable doubt...
GEORGE: The, uh, actor that played Jesus made some odd choices.
LORETTA: (shaking head, confused) What?
GEORGE: I mean, uh... I had fun ice skating.
LORETTA: Oh. (she smiles, reassured, and nods)
(Maura enters)
MAURA: George?
GEORGE: Maura. (starts acting dramatically, looking from Maura to Loretta and back again) Oh, my God! What are you doing here?!
MAURA: You told me to meet you here for lunch.
GEORGE: (standing up, still acting) Uhh! I’m caught in my own web of lies! (holds his hands up in surrender)
MAURA: (calmly ignoring George) I’m Maura. (shaking Loretta’s hand and smiling)
LORETTA: (to Maura, also friendly) I’m Loretta. You want to join us? (Maura nods and sits down next to her)
GEORGE: (laughs hysterically, gesticulating wildly) This is all blowing up in my face! My serious girlfriend, and my torrid love affair have accidentally crossed paths. I have ruined three lives... (grabbing coat) Well, I understand if you never want to see me again, so... (points towards door)
MAURA: George, what we have is too important. We can work through this.
LORETTA: So can we.
GEORGE: (astounded) What? So, this is still not over?
MAURA: No.
GEORGE: You?
LORETTA: No.
(George stands there pondering this, then resignedly...)
GEORGE: All right. (throws his coat back down on the seat and sits down opposite them)
Billy Budd, by Herman Melville, one of the most depressing books I've ever read (because the mitigating circumstances were not respected), is a study of the importance of mitigating circumstances.
“Symptom of the real problem”. Oh, I know - it’s always the victim’s fault - she’s not nice enough, pretty enough, working enough, etc. Yeah, right.
This is what the whole leftist trial lawyer industry is centered around.
And this is wisdom, Bill. One of the good things about growing older is that we can become wiser--and wiser--and wiser. At least, we can hope so.
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