Bartering??

[germdoc]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/perso...ef=mpstoryview

Hmmm--not sure if this is really useful to me, but I'll have to think about it awhile...

[cabinetman]

Hey, not uncommon. I had to offer a lifetime of sex and lifetime warranty on all work done around the house. The trade: LOML is one heck of a woman.
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[ironhat]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/perso...ef=mpstoryview

Hmmm--not sure if this is really useful to me, but I'll have to think about it awhile...

I know that you're joking, Jeff, but others may not think of the potential for lawsuits or blackmail even if it was consensual at the time. The later thought of a few thousand bucks instead of the original office visit fee can turn on a dime. Can we say, "greed?. No triste is worth that pain and suffering. My reasons for resisting would be more to the religious side of my self-defense but the former would certainly be in the forefront on my thoughts.

[germdoc]

Hehe--since I treat people with STD's, HIV, hepatitis C and other infections, I don't think I would barter with my day job!

However, the thought of moonlighting as a handyman for rich widows and divorcees is tempting to say the least...

[jackellis]

I don't have any problem looking, though I confess I have a pretty poor opinion of women who shamelessly flaunt their "charms" in front of perfect strangers that can't be printed on a family web site. However...

I'd be paranoid. About getting caught if I was married. About getting HIV. About getting drugged. About getting mugged. About getting caught by a husband or a boyfriend. About being accused of rape. Wouldn't make much difference if I was still single, either.

I suppose I'd be a lot less inhibited if I was a politician

[ironhat]

[quote=germdoc;364387]Hehe--since I treat people with STD's, HIV, hepatitis C and other infections, I don't think I would barter with my day job! [snip] quote]

Ewwwww!! I sure live in a different world!

[cgallery]

I've actually run into this. Some women are really good at it. They do it so smoothly you just know they've done it before.

Example: I told one young lady that her notebook's LCD panel was going to cost approx. $350 to replace. She said, "I don't have $350, but I really need to get it fixed. I'd do anything, you know what I mean?"

The heartbreakers are the single young mothers that are struggling to put food on the table and can't afford the expense of a hard drive replacement on the family's only PC. Once the conversation starts getting weird (like when she says stuff like, "I could make you dinner") I start suggesting ways to save money (used parts, suck it up on labor, etc.).

From time to time they return with CC cookies or home-baked bread.

For a time I was trading women that couldn't afford service lasagna. But I think my wife felt like that could go in the wrong direction. When I told my wife I had stopped the "service for lasagna" program, a good (and plenty wealthy) customer had his (hot Italian) wife make me a lasagna and bring it in. He did that just to make trouble for me. Then he called every two days for at least a week or two and ask what I thought of the lasagna.

And that marked the true end of the service for lasagna program.

[gsmittle]

Hey, not uncommon. I had to offer a lifetime of sex and lifetime warranty on all work done around the house. The trade: LOML is one heck of a woman.
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Which one of you got the better deal?

My first year of teaching I had a student tell me she'd do "anything, just anything," complete with blinking eyes and tossed hair, to pass my class. I told her to study more.

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[cabinetman]

Which one of you got the better deal?

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I'm absolutely positive that it will take the rest of our lives to find out. OTOH, it's a daily challenge for each of us to make the other think they did.
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[Nilt]

I get this a fair bit, too. I don't know what it is exactly, but it's rather interesting to think about. Too bad I wasn't doing this job while single ... heh. LOML is plenty for me nowadays.

[gsmittle]

I'm absolutely positive that it will take the rest of our lives to find out. OTOH, it's a daily challenge for each of us to make the other think they did.
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Well done, sir, well done!

Like most other posters, I have my hands full with LOML. There's simply no room or energy for anyone else, no matter how good the bargain looks at the time.

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[shoottx]

We have an agreement in our house, it is called "the bird dog theory".

A bird dog can bark point and run around, but when they bite down they get shot in the a**.

I have had no reason to look elsewhere, and since the LOML has been on the Skeet All American Team several times, I am sure she could hit what she aimed at!