Amway

Maybe after they finish laughing at you! ;-)

His leisure? Then you should post a photo of it, and gummy can spend a few hours writing up some colorful fables describing the amazing and death-defying ways that he's using the image to grind on pictures of projects. :-)

I take it that you made a deal *before* he became the ex-P.E./taxpayer? Oh well, hopefully the job wasn't fabricating spare-tire brackets. :-) Weird though that he accepted payment in advance. 'Cus when he's the buyer, whenever possible he prefers to pay a loooooooooooong time after receiving services.

It sounds like he'd rather abandon the grinder than face up to a broken promise. If I were in your shoes, I think I'd write up a humorous Ebay ad, sell the grinder for say, $4, and send gummy the proceeds (less commission and the cost of the stamp) along with a copy of the ad. Or just tell him that some old guy came by to pick up another of the items he "bought" from gummer 2 years ago. :-)

BTDT Many years ago I got a pair of paint-spattered vise-grips from a contractor who didn't want to return to the scene of his crime. I told him to drop by to pick them up, but apparently he feared the anticipated tongue-lashing more than he needed the vise-grips. :-)

Wayne

Michael has apparently been lost for a very long time. He clearly hates me; he's probably envious that at age 60, I still ride my bike a couple of miles a day, I drink with impunity, I smoke cigarettes, and I smoke marijuana recreationally. I'm guessing that all of these things are things that he hates; he probably mostly resents my Freedom. I do find it interesting that he seems to keep a personal file to record all of my faults.

He doesn't realize that his venomous hatred has no effect on me, but it's eating him up alive from the inside.

Oh, well, live and let live, I guess. ;-)

Cheers! Rich