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WildBill wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

george wrote:It was a joke, TAM.

Ooops! Sorry. You never know sometimes, and I guess I just gave proof to the old saw that there's a new sucker born every day.

Good thing he didn't say "Haywire"! I would have been mighty offended.

My grandpappy was always one to demonstrate concepts. When I was wondering about where the term "haywire" (pronounced hiewahr in his lexicon) he took me over to old Mr. King's farm and cut a very long loop of it for me, and then challenged me to untangle it.

I have to agree with everyone else on this one.

Look at it this way. You make a deal to buy a gun, and meet the seller, and he takes your money and goes into another room to get the gun, and then he comes back and says that on his way to get the gun he lost the money so you need to get some more.

You have, for all intents and purposes, given him the money, and he has signed for it, now he owes you a gun.

Many years ago I bought a target shooting coat. These things provide support and padding for target shooting, which I was very involved in at the time and was willing to spend a few extra bucks to get a quality product. This is an example, but not the one: http://www.championshooters.com/store/p ... 282&page=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I sent a credit union money order to the company because a personal check would take longer to clear and I wanted the coat for an upcoming match. The mail order branch of the company sent the coat, and it arrived in time to make the trip to CT with me and help me to win a 5th place (pewter) medal in my division. A few weeks later I received a letter from the outfit, a well known name in shooter's supplies, stating that the money order was not any good and that I would have to pony up the money for the coat again. A quick check with my credit union indicated that the money order had been paid out by them to the company I was dealing with. I called the company back and suggested that they contact the credit union directly, as I had paid them the money and the credit union had honored it, and I didn't feel responsible for their accounting error. They made all kinds of noise about suing me ((for $115.00???) it was a GOOD jacket) and such, and they were going to slander my name all over the place, etc, etc, etc. I told them I welcomed them to sue all they wanted, but to be prepared for a counter suit. Never heard another word from them. I suspect that in those pre-computer ages, the money got credited to someone else's account. THEM I held responsible for the screwup and I put their name up on the wall of shame at the gun club (our analog version of 3006.com), with full details.