It's simple...without anger or rancor, you calmly but firmly explain to her that you understand how accidents can happen, but now it's her task to find and purchase a like condition replacement, wherever she can, out of HER money. If she doesn't have any money of her own, she can sweep sidewalks or find some other part time job until she earns the appropriate amount.
And you wanted to lop off her head, didn't you? Tsk, tsk, tsk... I don't know if I'd have handled it with such apomb... keith whaley Paul Eriksson wrote: > > Yesterday I finally got a hold of David Muench's first book(?) Nature's > America in Hard Cover, great. When I got home I sat down in my favorite > chair enjoying the beutiful pictures but I left the book on the coffee table > for one minute to answer the phone, when I got back my wife had spilled a > quarter of a gallon of milk on my new book that previously was in mint > condition. I say it again, what do you do? > > a deeply disapointed Paul
