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From: johnston@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Silly Lawsuits
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 16:27:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 16:27:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA!johnston    Aug  6 15:27:00 1985


> This discussion brings to mind a talk I had with my attorney a few years
> back. I asked his opinion of the program "People's Court" and he surprised
> me by saying he thought it was excellent for several reasons:...
> 
> And reality seemed to bear out her thesis - she once loaned her car to me
> (very reluctantly) to move, and while I had it, another car skidded on a
> patch of ice and cracked a *miniscule* piece of plastic from her front
> grill. She told me I had to pay to have the whole grill replaced (wouldn't
> even let me install it). A bit of airplane cement would have made it good as
> new. I told her she was being ridiculous to expect that, but she only had to
> say the word "court" once to get me to pay up the 50 bucks. My point is that
> to her the 50 dollars was apparently worth more than our friendship. I
> really believe that if we had been able to go to a silliness counselor, I
> could have saved at least half the cost, and possibly the friendship. And
> nobody would have used expensive judicial resources on something as minor as
> a chunk of plastic grill.

If YOU had watched "People's Court", you would probably have realized that
you should have stood up to her threat to go to court;  you probably would
have won and saved yourself $50.00.  As Doug Lewellyn (sp?) is so fond of
saying: "If you think you're right, don't back down, take 'em to court!"

- Gary Johnston

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