17 Apr 08 Ode To Josh (Part Deux)

Tomorrow I hope Peggy will share her version of the story to which she mentions in yesterdays comments. 

Today I’m going to tell you about the time that Josh first used his word wrangling for my benefit. 

Beth and I were in to baseball and basketball cards at the time, smoothly buying and selling a few on EBAY.

This of course was up until scandal erupted over an innocuous basketball card of Jayson Williams.

The card was one in a series of cards that printed on a basketball like texture instead of the regular card print.

It was a gold series card and not all that common of a card

The confusion had to do with a very popular Jason Williams and a lesser Jayson Williams.

In my defense:  The item description was accurate.  The name was spelled correctly.  A picture of the card was clearly displayed.

Not only are the names spelled differently but Jason (aka White Chocolate) is of Caucasian persuasion and Jayson is not. 

Some over-achiever rushed in as the auction was closing - didn’t pay attention to the details - and quickly bid $30 for a $2.50 to $3.00 card.

He realized his mistake after the auction ended and sent me a venomous email about how he was in law school and I had defrauded him and all the bad legal things he was going to inflict upon me.

Now if you know Josh, you know there are two things he enjoys:  Sandwiches and Pepsi.

He also enjoys basketball and defending his profession from pesky lawyerly posers. 

I could see him salivating as I recounted my experience and he quickly said, "I’ll write your response, you put your name on it and send it back to him and we’ll see what he has to say."

His letter was thing of beauty.

Code citation, refuting arguments and teaching the poser the way of the law more correctly.

He even said something like "with as little as you seem to know about actual law I can’t imagine you’ve finished your first year of law school." 

I knew the guy had been a dodo head and I wasn’t expecting him to pay for the card (the right thing to do) I just was concerned about my reputation as a stellar EBAYER.

Long story short, the dude sent back a reply that gushed with remorse and pleaded for compassion upon his pitiful lawerly posing self. 

Score one for my lawyer that consistently has proven that he’s better than your lawyer.

The thing is, had the guy actually purchased the Jayson Williams card it might have been worth more than $30 considering the legal troubles Jayson unfortunately found himself in.