I Am Angry Today Because . . .
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In my line of work there's a concept called "final payment is due when the customer is satisfied". Most folk I have come across take that to heart. I do, too. My idea is, if it is to be it is up to me. Works for me, anyway.
Sorry you're having a run of bad luck. 
PatInTheHat -- I "liked" the post because I care. ((((PITH))))
It seems to be a trend/rage- you ask, someone says "Of course I can do that". You wait, you see no results. Would be less stress if they just said "no". Please find a positive place- sending those positive vibes.
Thank you for the reminder, morgan, and I hope you are finding some peace for yourself.
I guess I'm more susceptible to heartbreak as I get older, but it's downright amazing to me how I keep not learning this^ very simple truth. People spend so much time looking for things that sometimes they forget they already have things. I was a very young man -- a boy, really -- the first time the world kicked me as hard as I thought it could.
I was wrong about that. The world could kick much harder, and it would. As a young man (I was only 26 when the really bad thing happened) I still thought I was supposed to bear up under tragedy with that old Anglo-Saxon stiff upper lip and that I was certainly not going to put on an emotional "show" for anyone.
Yeah . . . I was pretty stupid.
In fact, I still am, in at least one very important particular.
In my old life, the people who claim to know about such things would tell me something very much like "Realizing that you're an idiot is the first step on the path to getting smarter."
I don't know if this necessarily makes me "smarter," but the ability to recognize what I don't know seems like pretty valuable skill . . . even if it turns out to be "too late."
Get busy living.
Welching on agreed upon deals, reneging on business arrangements, secretly selling partners down the river to pad one's own pockets while pretending not, not not showing up on time, as if that's not bad enough, but at all...
I could go on all day, but gotta get back to gettin' stuff done, just needed to vent before my head a'splodes, is all.
(((((PatHat)))))
I am well familiar with that, most everything I've ever done, final payment is usually the whole payment.In my line of work there's a concept called "final payment is due when the customer is satisfied". Most folk I have come across take that to heart. I do, too. My idea is, if it is to be it is up to me. Works for me, anyway.
Thanks Walt
The only similar experience I've had has been with eBay sellers, which have been only a few. It's fortunate that in my day-to-day I tend not to run into many thieves or people who operate in bad faith.
When I give my word, it means everything to me. I've always told my kids to never make a commitment they can't keep. If someone asks them to do something, and they aren't sure or committed, say "maybe" or just give them a No. People understand maybe. If you say yes, then you do everything you can to follow through on your word. and YES, things happen in life that keep us from fulfilling commitments, but that's when you have the common courtesy to contact the person. You do owe them an explanation when they are counting on you.
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Word.
I hate to confess that while generally trustworthy I've betrayed people in my life, some of whom have been close to me. None of us is perfect but each of us must strive to be better.
PITH? I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hot dog today.
PITH? I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hot dog today.
Sadly, integrity is one of those things we seem to be losing in our fine, empowered society, where nothing is ever anyone's fault and everyone does "the best they can" all the time.
When I was a child and I asked my mother for something I wasn't going to get, she would say "We'll see."
It didn't take me long to realize that "We'll see" meant "No," and once I understood that I was perfectly okay with it. That was just mom not wanting to hurt my feelings. There's a reason that "No" is the first word most children learn. The sad part is that it takes a lot longer to understand why "No" is such an important word that -- to my way of thinking -- doesn't get used often enough.
When and where I grew up, not keeping a promise -- lying -- was one of the worst things you could do. We were taught that people need to be able to count on each other, because good things go bad (and bad things go worse) when they can't. I see less and less of that kind of attitude as I grow weary with the world. It's kind of a shame, but then again, most generations probably see some version of this and just shake their heads, the way we are now.
There's a great parable -- I think it's a parable, I could be wrong -- about a girl who prayed that her cat would get better after it got hit by a car. It didn't get better, and the girl's father (fool that he was) told her that he was sorry God had not answered her prayer. So the girl looked up at her father and she said: "He did answer it, daddy. He said, 'No'."
Hmm, nowa daze I believe my new motto is, Pay Me Today and Juuust Maybe You'll Get That Dawg, Well, Could Be, You Know, Someday...business and cart, now muchos very gone, on to greener pastures, um, ya got a pasture, see I might pay you some Tuesday.......PITH? I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hot dog today.
That is very fortunate, was a day not all that very long ago, I felt the exact same way.
Now my sh!t seems to be disappearing faster than one would think inanimate objects could grow legs.
PatInTheHat please ck your PM
Hmm, nowa daze I believe my new motto is, Pay Me Today and Juuust Maybe You'll Get That Dawg, Well, Could Be, You Know, Someday...business and cart, now muchos very gone, on to greener pastures, um, ya got a pasture, see I might pay you some Tuesday.......
Wait! No more cart? No more wieners? I'm going to cry.........
You and me both, I mean, 'The Weinerless Slinger', well to be honest, that just doesn't sound nearly quite as cool
You and me both, I mean, 'The Weinerless Slinger', well to be honest, that just doesn't sound nearly quite as cool
Aw man. I'm depressed as hell about this. It's not my business to pry, but damn. All the best wishes PITH.