On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:07:58 -0500, the infamous Upscale
scrawled the following:

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:06:26 -0700, "LDosser"
wrote:

them that, if she lived that long they'd get all of it. Had her $10 check on
the desk and asked them whether they wanted that, or nothing. They opted for
the payment plan and she paid for the rest of her life.

That immediately makes me think of your housing boom that went bust.
People taking on debt that they can't ever realistically pay off, yet
the bean counters authorized the transaction anyway. Of course, that
debt wasn't for paltry small sums such as your aunt took on, but it's
a debt that should never have been authorized anyway.

Nope, they shoulda let the old biddy die instead, huh, Uppy?
Man, you're conflicted.

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