I sense the signs of the apocalypse. Or, as Hick calls it, the apopadopalyspe.
A gambler is suing a casino because he got drunk and lost $500,000. Really, now. I'll bet he wasn't contemplating a lawsuit when he was slugging back free drinks. And, correct me if I'm wrong, which Val hardly ever is, or admits to, anyway...but the last time I checked, a casino was a place people went to gamble. If nobody ever loses money, I don't think that can technically be called gambling. And I seriously doubt that the dude would be suing the casino if he got drunk and won $500,000.
Then there's the 18-year-old little gal who left home in a disagreement over rules, and now has taken her parents to court asking for $645 a week in support, plus her private school tuition, and a college fund. Oh, the lawsuit is costing $12,000, and she's also asking for court costs. Right now she is living with a friend's parents, and they are paying her lawyer. Among the atrocities to which she was subjected (says she) was the unnatural behavior of her father, who was always putting his arm around her shoulders in public, and who kissed her on the cheek.
HANDBASKETS! Lolly, lolly, lolly, get your handbaskets here!
I must renew efforts to break ground on my proposed handbasket factory. Forthwith.
Arm around his daughter and kiss in the cheek? Guilty.
ReplyDelete18? If any court gives her a cent I will eat my hat. Never mind, I know I will likely lose this one. Because the world has gone mad.
ReplyDeleteOh don't get me started on that little brat and the boozer.
ReplyDeleteYes, I understand that young lady didn't like having a curfew, among other "atrocities."
ReplyDeleteIf those parents lose the case, I'm going to sue my parents. My mother's "unnatural" way of potty-training me: a few chocolate chips every time I peed in the potty chair.
Now I've got a chocolate monkey on my back...and I can't get rid of it.
Lawyers? Any takers?
It is the American way ...... sue somebody for what you want, never hold yourself accountable for your own behavior. The little girl ..... I just want to smack her! But, she would sue me ........
ReplyDeleteSome of these stories are mind boggling and defy logic.
ReplyDeletejoeh,
ReplyDeleteSuch a perv! Lock him up and throw away the key, and make him fork over the dollar a day he earns in the pokey's laundry.
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Birdie,
Thus, my proposed handbasket factory.
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Linda,
They both need a stern talking-to.
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Sioux,
Well, Madam, it appears that like the portly fellow who looks like Humpty Dumpty with a melon head...your dark master is the cocoa bean. Perhaps you can find a lawyer named Bosco.
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Kathy,
OH! Have you heard the latest? She wanted to sue a teacher who caused her to get kicked out of her Homecoming Dance because she was drunk, and bragging about having a bottle of Everclear. Because it was his fault, you know, that she was drunk at the Homecoming Dance, bragging about having a bottle of Everclear.
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Stephen,
Truth. More mind-boggling and logic-defying than fiction.