Right. Money is no object, so vindictively he forces them to spend as much money as possible right up until the last minute. Spiteful, evil man. Oh, excuse me; heis not a man. And he’s certainly not an animal. Let’s compromise and classify him as a life form.

vada, I respect your opinion. You may be right. I don’t agree across the board though. Perhaps monsters are created sometimes due to lack of love orto lack of the right kind of attention they needed in their childhood years. Then again, examples abound of sociopathic adults who were adored in childhood by their parents. I can think of two examples of famous people and one example of someone I’ve known from the age of 9, who is now a man of 66. He and his older brother each received the same, rather thoughtless, uninspired parenting. The older brother is a decent normal human being; the younger brother turned into a monster. I personally believe in the viability of the “bad seed” theory. But I’m not a mental health professional. And I partly agree with you about hope for most people, but not for everyone, across the board.

Can one of Leah’s lawyers dress as Captain Crunch just for fun?

Brilliant idea!

I understand that Dave is a second generation Scientologist who’s never had people that genuinely loved him enough to prevent him from becoming a monster. Look where we’re communicating, Aqua. It’s never too late for anyone.

A vous aussi, merci beaucoup. Et comm c’est merveilleux – je peux m’entrainer a parler mon horribe francais avec vous 🙂

Thank you, Aqua. First of all, I thank Mike for his patience. I won’t go into the topic, but having attended school en Suisse with the priests, I also speak French.
Une salutation et plein de belles choses, chère amie.

You’re welcome, Loosing, and believe me I have reality on the necessity of learning a new language, which in my case is/was French. Back in the day I lived in a largely French speaking 3rd World country. There weren’t too many Americans living there at the time and learning French which was the official language as well as the patois, which was the country’s unofficial but universal language were necessities. Your continual applications to learn English by speaking it continually are admirable to me. The good news is that when you are forced to continually speak the new language as I was, or in your case when you force yourself on your own determinism to continually speak English then you DO learn it, and eventually you begin to THINK in the new language. Again, your English is VERY good, Loosing – indeed far better than my French ever was, that’s for sure. And idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms just have to be learned as concepts and not via the translations of the individual words comprising such phrases. A French language example would be the expression “Avoir du pois” which is used to say that someone is overweight. Literally the words mean “to have too much skin”. Now, if in English you said that a person has too much skin, no one would have a clue as to what you meant. Well, anyway, keep up the good work; you are FLUENT in English!

Thank you Aqua, indeed, right after posting that comment, I regretted it. Luckily, you took it well. Just kidding. Yes, the example of pasta al dente is perfect. As for my English, I thank you. I certainly can’t present a “english maccaroni” (mangled) comment in this blog. It’s a continuous effort to improve. I follow several American podcasts, blogs, or videos, or anything in English. As additional work, for three-quarters of the year, I deal with English-speaking clients, so some preparation is needed. Also, I don’t hide the fact that I occasionally resort to some translator if the sentence requires it. In fact, it takes me half an hour to write a comment like this. Laughing. Take care.

Because that isn’t how the laws on service are written. I have a lawyer I use for business taxes but he isn’t my agent for service nor my businesses agent so he won’t accept any papers to be served on me.