reading people

you hit the nail on the head, i grit my teeth sometimes, but i divide things up in 2 ways:   1. necessity 2 Pleasure
necessitys are everyday things such as milk for the kids, gas in the car
Pleasure: boats, Merecedes Benz's, 5 carrot diamond rings
Once i realized this after that point I never have a problem handing a guy like above a bill and it comes back to learning to read people, my first conversation with him was that his trans is broke and my second conversation was how broke he was
Btw.... since your a hippie have you ever went to a Pagen fest? my brother was told everyone walks around by choice completely nude and he had a chance to work one of the booths with a friend and he said clothes were definitly an option

BFN, oh he can afford it believe me, I guess the point was that the working class guy like me and you never bicker the price, the bigger the boat the more the bickering...thats why they have the big boats

those of you in business for yourself may understand this, its the guy's like me and you who work half days, 7:00am to 7:00 pm who when you hire someone to do work for you, when the guy is finished you ask how much do i owe you? and alot of these guys will kick you or your helper a $100.00 tip for getting the job done. What brings this up is i have a guy broke down from Detroit in his 44ft Carver and basically he is at my mercy, Now to own a 44ft Carver you have to have some coin laying around. and with no prejiduce the wife has the star around her neck (this is where to reading people comes into play)The first thing the guy says is how soon can you get my boat fixed so we can continue our month long voyage (in which he'll probably burn 10g's in gas) now here is where it gets good, he's goes on to explaining on how he is now retired and on a fixed income and doesnt think he can afford the boat any longer and this may be his last trip. (what this means is he is trying to prime me early to reflect the price on the bill) Well having a little "star" in my blood Im starting to counter prime him with the way i see it... well if Caterpillar does this job you'll have to dry dock the boat and cut the deck...you'll have to pay a $1.50 a mile and so on, so to make a long story short when all is done and said i will figure out my bill the way it should be and tack on an additional 25% because I know when I give him the bill he will insist on a discount.....and usually its about 25%