Chris has this condo, which he rents out to this Canadian couple we fondly refer to as "The Frenchies." They're quite strange. They were going to break the lease, apparently as a tactic to re-negotiate the monthly rent terms.. they tried to say, "How about we knock $200 off each month's rent?" I mean, who does that? They had a signed LEASE. Chris said shaa and arranged for an agent to start showing the place the next month. It's when they got a call that the agent would be there the next Monday with a prospective tenant in tow that they changed their mind about leaving. Then the next thing you know, they paid for the next six month in advance...... IN CASH. Uh, okay.
Anyway, this month he realized the cable bill was kinda high, so took a look at it before bringing it over to them. I guess the PPV selections explain it...
Craving Big Meat 14 had to have been a highlight of the month.
I hope they're embarassed when Chris hand-delivers the bill. :) The best part is that he's dropping it off on his way home from church.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
