The other day, my young neighbor, who had just moved into the neighborhood and liked to throw loud parties, asked me for a favor. She had hosted another one of her wild parties, but then got called out of town for work. She asked if I could clean up the mess at her place and said she would pay me. I agreed, since some extra cash is always helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cleaning up the disaster in her house took me two full days. When she returned, I went over to get paid, but she suddenly claimed that we had never made any agreement. We argued for about half an hour, but she kept denying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fine. If she wanted to be difficult, I could be firm. I left, but I came back twenty minutes later with something prepared. I knocked on her door again and handed her a written invoice for $250, along with printed copies of the messages where she had clearly asked me to clean her house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also showed her a small-claims court filing form that I had filled out, explaining that if she didn\u2019t pay by the next day at noon, I would submit it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She got flustered and tried to claim it was all a misunderstanding, but I simply wished her a good evening and went home. About ten minutes later, she came to my door with the full $250 plus an extra $20 for the trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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