Karma? He'd have rather gotten paid...

[Mikkel]

I just knew it was too good to be true. That was in Buffalo, NY, in the late 70's when I heard it, so it's been around a while.

Edited to add: At the time I believed it. But over time, I have learned that the stories with the perfect endings are usually urban legends.

In Denmark it has been tradition for many centuries that a stingy contractor gets a "dead bricklayer" (død murer). It is a bottle placed in the wall or chimney to make ghostly noises when the wind is in the right corner. This picture, from the Danish version of Wikipedia, shows a dead bricklayer in a church tower in Elsinore. Third row from the bottom, a little left of the middle .

[cindybubbles]

I wonder if the same goes for website developers. I've been paid by one client with only $220 and a Palm Pilot. It was only after much badgering that I got the full $400.

Good thing for him that I don't believe in doing harm to others, though.

[Geek King]

I wonder if the same goes for website developers. I've been paid by one client with only $220 and a Palm Pilot. It was only after much badgering that I got the full $400.

Good thing for him that I don't believe in doing harm to others, though.

In a lot of software, that precaution is called a product key.

[Halo_miles]

I work at a truck stop, and we call each other when we have difficult customers who don't like prepay and threaten to go elsewhere. It's pretty funny to watch people who freak out over prepay, go somewhere else, and then realize that that place is prepay as well.