everybody else is doing it so i bet you haven't

[alenxa_classic]

TEN THINGS I HAVE DONE THAT YOU PROBABLY HAVE NOT:

1. Narrated a play in kindergarten and been mistaken for a second-grader.
2. Heard the sound a paint can full of cement makes on a trailer roof.
3. Posed for a photo pretending to kiss a freshly-caught fish.
4. Had crushes on two people who later became a couple.
5. Seen The Fugitive upwards of ten times.
6. Baked cookies shaped like leviathans.
7. Voluntarily tasted dry dog food.
8. Designed and created jewelry for a wedding.
9. Calculated permanent disability for the loss of Lindsey's hand.
10. Won first place in Science Olympiad for describing a sculpture made of florist's foam, yarn, plastic forks, and Tootsie Rolls.

Comments

[sekl.livejournal.com]

OTQ, since Lindsey got his hand back, would he be expected to return the compensation or are such settlements made for life?

[alenxa.livejournal.com]

Not if he settled in such a way as to get all the money up front. (Which would include the value of the loss of the hand, plus maintenance and replacements for the prosthetic estimated for the rest of his life.) If he had opted for the installment plan, with payments coming every two weeks and supplies paid as needed, W&H's insurance company would almost certainly have filed to reduce his award. Taking into account the minor psychological impact of having an evil hand, and any scarring (can't remember how much there was, if any), he'd probably end up with something like 1/10 of what he could have had under a full and final settlement.

Shoot me.

[sekl.livejournal.com]

"Who's the bigger geek? The geek or the geek who encourages the geeking?" ;)