Well then ... my lawyer will be seeking to take your home.

I'm sure it is worth $12,000.

And no .. Wilbur. You are not about to work on my boat. No way.

I want the guy at the marina. The one who brags about the $80,000 dollars
he extorted .. oopps I mean made ... last year doing paint jobs of
sailboats.


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"NE Sailboat" wrote in message
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Wilbur ,, if you for some unknown reason happen to bump into me ... not
that you would ever do this ... but just in case...

And I said "Hey, Wilbur, you owe me a new Awlgrip job and that cost
$12,000".

Are you going to pay it ??


He'll no I ain't gonna pay it. That's extortion and you know it. One
little scratch doesn't entitle you to a whole new paint job. You're only
entitled to get the scratch buffed out and painted to match. To be made
whole, so to speak. I can buff and paint with the best of them. I would
pay for a haul-out if necessary and I would paint the boo boo myself. More
likely, I'd be able to do job in the water. You'd get nothing more from me
other than an "I'm sorry for the inconvenience." If you're gonna live
life you gotta take the good with the bad. The most you should expect is
to not be out of pocket because of some idiot damaging your boat.

See, that's exactly the problem with insurance I'm talking about. Idiots
think if they get a little boo boo they deserve a whole new boat. Then
they complain to high heavens about ridiculous premiums. Sorry but things
don't work that way in the real world. If you want insurance to pay for
extortion then expect to pay confiscatory rates for insurance. You get
what you pay for.

Wilbur Hubbard