>>That’s when I told him I’m the payee,<<
It had to be fun to watch him backtrack!
It was. He stammered a bit. I said “I’ll accept a simple ‘I apologize’ and then we can move on to the business at hand. I figure the purge will be about $1300?”
It was, and off she went in cuffs until she scraped it up. I really don’t know which aspect I liked the most.