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I'm not sure if this is the right place for this story, but because it's a follow-up to this http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=52850 story from 2009 I'm guessing this is okay.
If you don't want to read the old post, the short version is: 5 years ago I installed an in-wall doggy door for a very obnoxious woman who was moving in to her (very nice and very rich) boyfriend's house. Hijinks ensued, obnoxious woman got owned.
On to today: My friend Tom hires me to remove a doggy door and patch the wall up. (This is why people install doggy doors in the walls of frame-and-stucco houses; it's very easy to undo.) The house looks familiar when I arrive, and as soon as I meet the homeowner I realize exactly where I am. Turns out that the guy's obnoxious girlfriend is now his obnoxious ex-wife. She's no longer living in the house. In fact, the last of her belongings in the place is the doggy door I'm removing.
This piques my curiosity, since in most divorces I've been privy to the wife usually gets the house, and the lion's share of the stuff therein. Chatting with the customer while working, I learn that his divorce settlement amounted to her keeping everything that was hers prior to the marriage, him keeping everything that was his prior to the marriage, including the house, and splitting everything either party acquired during the marriage 50-50. That's not the usual terms in this State. It seems that the guy had a bullet-proof pre-nup. Guess how he made his large, impressive pile of money?
He's a divorce lawyer.
I can't decide whether to accept the job if Tom wants me to re-install the doggy door in the woman's new house. On the one hand I don't want to deal with the miserable cow, but on the other hand I'd love to see if all this has taken any of the wind out of her sails.
If you don't want to read the old post, the short version is: 5 years ago I installed an in-wall doggy door for a very obnoxious woman who was moving in to her (very nice and very rich) boyfriend's house. Hijinks ensued, obnoxious woman got owned.
On to today: My friend Tom hires me to remove a doggy door and patch the wall up. (This is why people install doggy doors in the walls of frame-and-stucco houses; it's very easy to undo.) The house looks familiar when I arrive, and as soon as I meet the homeowner I realize exactly where I am. Turns out that the guy's obnoxious girlfriend is now his obnoxious ex-wife. She's no longer living in the house. In fact, the last of her belongings in the place is the doggy door I'm removing.
This piques my curiosity, since in most divorces I've been privy to the wife usually gets the house, and the lion's share of the stuff therein. Chatting with the customer while working, I learn that his divorce settlement amounted to her keeping everything that was hers prior to the marriage, him keeping everything that was his prior to the marriage, including the house, and splitting everything either party acquired during the marriage 50-50. That's not the usual terms in this State. It seems that the guy had a bullet-proof pre-nup. Guess how he made his large, impressive pile of money?
He's a divorce lawyer.
I can't decide whether to accept the job if Tom wants me to re-install the doggy door in the woman's new house. On the one hand I don't want to deal with the miserable cow, but on the other hand I'd love to see if all this has taken any of the wind out of her sails.
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