Saturday, March 28, 2009

Sledding

Well my computer has crashed until we can get it to a doctor to fix it's virus so I don't have much opportunity to post blogs - even though I have many I want to post so I'm afraid that it will be overwhelming and I won't acutally do it. :) I'm in Collinsville at the moment so I decided to write a little post explaining my lack of posts and while I'm at it.......swipe a few photos off of Amy's computer. This is a picture of Zach and I "sledding" when we were at my parent's house at the end of January right before Aaron left for his mission. I say "sledding" because we actually used a trash bag as a sled and we sled down a tiny little slop in my parent's side yard. It was fun though. I have more photos of this day on my computer but......that's not going to happen. This little post will have to get you through these rough days without me. :)

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Correction

I'm fairly certain that the phrase should have been "What goes around comes around". Which would mean that I totally butchered the phrase on the title of my last post. The more I think about it the more confusing it seems to be. Is "What goes around comes around" the correct phrase? I think so. Hm... Somehow the knowledge that I messed it up (I think) bothers me and I could go back and just change the title of the blog but instead I have to write a whole post about how I screwed up. :)

Thursday, March 12, 2009

What comes around goes around.

BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR
Charlotte, North Carolina. A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost 'in a series of small fires.'
The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The lawyer sued, and WON! (Stay with me.) Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable fire' and was obligated to pay the claim.
Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars lost in the 'fires'.
NOW FOR THE BEST PART...
After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine. This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.

Seriously? I thought this was hilarious because I can't stand it when people sue others for stupid things like "The coffee was too hot and burned me." DUH! Coffee is hot. It makes me happy that this selfish man got what was coming to him. Mhmm. That's right.