♫Can't live withem, you can't live without'em, there's something wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey about'em♫

[captainsblog]

Clients, that is.  Here, heavily redacted, is the gist of a chat just now with one of them.

C: I want to get a loan to buy such-and-such, but the bank says I have a bankruptcy on my credit report.

Me: That's right. You filed one, in 2004. (Actually, you filed two- one in 2001 that I took over and got driv crazy with, then the one in '04 that's still showing up, the one someone else filed and in which you discharged my bill, but I'm nice and stupid that way, representing you again.)

C: How long will it be on my report?

Me: Ten years. Although nothing requires a bank to count it against you for that whole time. It's whatever their own policies state. Could be all ten years, could be two.

C: Well, the banker said something about seven years.

Me: Right, that's how long other things stay on there, but they can choose to ignore it sooner.  If the banker said seven years, that would be this September.

C: So, is there any way you could make that go faster?

Me (aloud): Erm, no.

Me (thinking): Short of getting in the TARDIS and moving things up four months? Dammit, I'm a lawyer, not a Doctor.

And everybody repeat how much we all love our jobs....

Comments

[bktheirregular]

Oh yeah. It'd be a wonderful profession if it weren't for the f[censored] clients.

(It's worrisome how big a laugh that joke got when I told it to one of my office's partners here in Athens.)

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Wait, this guy got your bill for the first bankruptcy discharged and you're still representing him after the second bankruptcy?!

...you are too nice for your own good.

At least you're a lawyer, not an escalator...

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

(a) It was so long ago and my arrangements then were so screwy, I doubt I would've seen much of that $ if the client had paid;

(b) client was actually re-referred by someone who sends me good stuff from time to time;

(c) occasionally, my good nature gets the better of me;

(d) ticky boxes!

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I think the tickyboxes are the only good thing going on here. *pat*

[nentikobe.livejournal.com]

Dr. McCoy, THE Doctor... so many good lines here.

I think similar thoughts about my "clients" but mostly "These kids would be great if it wasn't for their parents..."

[luckycee.livejournal.com]

I would have said you may be too much entrenched in the Dr. Who world at the moment had you not saved yourself with the proper Trek reference.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

If any of your friends follow this Brit stuff, you can likely stop them in their tracks about how great this last episode was by just uttering this line from one of the TOS Harry Mudd episodes:

"The Enterprise is a beautiful lady and we love her!"

That covers a whole bunch of what Neil Gaiman did the other night.