Have you ever found yourself yelling at some guy who is blathering away on television?
Every city has its local "star" who has that little segment on the news where they track down perpetrators of these schemes or at least warn others to look out...more often the case because they usually never catch up with the bad guys.
Anyway, a local station has one of these "stars" who is particularly smarmy. He also gestures distractingly. His gestures look fake and practiced and are never timed exactly right with whatever point he is trying to make. (You know, like in some movies when the actors' mouths don't quite move at the same speed as the words that you are hearing.)
He drives me nuts. I don't know why I watch him. But sometimes I just have to.
Well, one night he was advising people how they should not become victims of these creeps who want money up front. He was actually going on and on about how the really smart thing to do was to only give them HALF. HALF!!! Yep. That's what he said. I was screamin' at him. But he did not hear me. I was going to call the station but I did not bother. They would just have pretended to listen to me anyway. The idiotic "advice" was already out there.
When alleged contractors want money up front, it is often because their credit is not good anywhere.
I will sign a contract. But I will not give anybody money up front.
This kind of thing just makes me furious when I hear about it.
Oh, and the dorkarooney is still on television, gesturing wildly, and his hair keeps getting slicker and slicker. Sometimes his advice is OK now. The station seems to be buying more of it in a can for him to just repeat, rather than turning him loose to "save" the world. :edit:
Boomer
(Gee. Where did all that come from? It happened years ago. Guess I'm still mad. :dontknow
