For some reason, all I have is crazy people in my life, and my business

[P&R Fan]

I've been a Forum member for about 5 years. You all know me. Tell my, why do I have nothing but crazy people in my life?

Got a new client. A Woman who is sure she is being harassed EVERYWHERE. I swept her house for concealed cameras. Nothing. One of the places she is sure she is being harassed is the casino. Said she will hear "voices". After I swept her house I suggested we go there. I didn't hear a darn thing.

Did win $710 in Blackjack though.

For some reason, the insane seek me out.
Jim

 

[Straightshooter2]

Jim, to paraphrase Julia Sugarbaker, here in the South we are used to crazy people. In fact we don't ask if you have crazy people in your family, we ask which side they are on. Plus we don't hide them in the attic like some folks do. We trot them right down to the living for every body to see.

CW

 

[old bear]

Jim, to paraphrase Julia Sugarbaker, here in the South we are used to crazy people. In fact we don't ask if you have crazy people in your family, we ask which side they are on. Plus we don't hide them in the attic like some folks do. We trot them right down to the living for every body to see.

CW

Here in the genteel and refined portion of our great country no one is crazy but we have a number of eccentric folks. Ya gotta love it.

 

[boatme99]

As a lovely woman who once worked for me said one day: "I'm a dysfunctional magnet!"

You're not alone.

 

[Roadtrash]

If everybody was sane and normal think how dull life would be.

 

[rwsmith]

A lot of people have quirks....

A lot of people are quirky, but what you describe is a real mental problem. You can tell her she's nuts and doesn't need your services or if she pays, just keep doing what she asks to reassure her. She or somebody close to her is going to have to decide that she needs help other than anti-surveillance.

 

[perrazi]

maybe it has something to do with the business you are in?

 

[quneur]

maybe it has something to do with the business you are in?

He shouldn't be passing out business cards in front of the physiatric hospital.

 

[gaucho1]

So far..........my experience leads me to believe this IS....




Planet Crazy

Maybe it's just me.........

 

[arjay]

15 %(at least) of the people I did remodeling jobs for would have been smarter to spend the money on better meds or therapy [emoji57].If you're a good listener,you're gonna meet em [emoji1]

 

[Bullet Bob]

Just because she's crazy doesn't mean she's wrong. Probably receiving signals from an extraterrestrial life form not detectable by our primitive technology.

Hey, as long as she pays you, right?

 

[JcMack]

I just wish everyone was as normal as I used to be.

 

[Rick_A]

You know...I was a bit of a loner and often thought of as an odd ball. As I became less awkward growing up and it was all of a sudden cool to not be part of the crowd, I found that even (especially?) the most attractive and most popular folks had issues like everyone else, they just put on a better face.

As far as the certifiable, clinical cases, they are certainly out there, and it seems like little is done to help such folks.

 

[Biginge]

Rich folk have nervous breakdowns.. Poor folks go crazy.

 

[Iggy]

Here in the genteel and refined portion of our great country no one is crazy but we have a number of eccentric folks. Ya gotta love it.

Hey, wait a minute, I am known around here as an eccentric old geezer.
Does this mean...? I thought it was a term of endearment....

 

[blujax01]

I just wish everyone was as normal as I used to be.

This from the man who has "Keef" for his avatar!

 

[NYlakesider]

I have met a lot of strange people over the course of my life, the funny thing is I fit in real well with them.

 

[Mcwsky09]

I would suggest you tell her you have installed anti-spying devices that block the signals - but that could result in problems for you if something did happen to her.

I read a book on consulting a number of years ago and in it the author described a client who was especially difficult to work with and when the client called instead of saying no - he quote the customer a price about three times his normal rate. He was surprised when the client accepted and at first was going to do the job begrudgingly and with an attitude. But then he decided, he had the option to say no up front, but since he had quoted the price and the customer accepted and that it was at 3x normal price - that he would do the job happily and just keep in mind that the added hassle of dealign with that customer was worthy he extra $.

Generically his advice was a login the lines of this:
Always set you price such that you will happily do the work if the customer accepts the proposal, regardless of the difficulties or complications involved, and that you will happily walk away from the opportunity if the customer does not accept the price.

Keeping in mind that the customer has the right to refuse your proposal of course. So you don't want to set you prices so high that you put your self out of a job.

That philosophy can work in other situations as well. For example if you are doing someone a favor, choose to do the favor if you are comfortable doing so (based on time, effort, cost, etc) and do what you are comfortable with happily regardless of whether the other person demonstrate the expected level of gratitude etc.

I suppose you could sum that up as live your life by your rules and don't let other people's faults and foibles determine your happiness.

 

[Salty RI]

Some people just draw them, I have a brother in law, almost everyone he knows is a wacko.

 

[george minze]

When I go to a Casino I end up talking to myself.....Am I crazy or just plain stupid...I think stupid..especially since I know the house odds.