Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!johnston From: johnston@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Silly Lawsuits Message-ID: <19400006@uiucdcsb> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 16:27:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.19400006 Posted: Tue Aug 6 16:27:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 01:59:12 EDT References: <663@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:tpvax.fluke.UUCP:-66300:uiucdcsb:19400006:000:1522 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 USENET: ...!{pur_ee,ihnp4,convex}!uiucdcs!johnston CSNET: johnston%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa ARPA: johnston@uiuc.arpa