casinos dont allow smoking anymore (at least the ones ive been) and the smoking room they had was so small and pathetic and had no ventilation at all it was terrible
not that i went there to smoke or gamble i just wanted to check it out. it was horrible
In early high school (15~ years ago), I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to a local restaurant that still had one of the only smoking sections left in the city. All of her family smoked, and I couldn’t even enjoy my meal because my senses were overloaded by cigarettes. It was horrible and I’m so thankful we removed smoking indoors in the states.
I remember being at a Legion fish fry once years ago and you could still smoke in there after it was banned everywhere else. Fish and smoke do not mix well.
I got to bar age after most cities in my area passed non-smoking bylaws for bars and restaurants, but lived for a bit in one city that didn’t yet have a ban. I smoked at the time. I remember thinking that while it was nice to be able to just have a smoke while chilling on a couch with friends and a drink, the air quality sucked overall and I was glad to see the ban eventually go through there, too.
A while later, I stopped smoking in my car. If I wanted a smoke, I’d park somewhere and do it outside. For places I lived, if it already had people smoking indoors, I’d just do that, but otherwise I’d smoke outside because the clean air was nicer (both while smoking outside and when I returned to the inside).
So even as a smoker, the convenience wasn’t worth it to me, unless the air quality was already bad.
I guarantee you that person has spent more time and effort avoiding paying small bills that could have been easily paid off putting the same time and effort into a minimum wage job.
What do you want to bet that the reason that their customer service and “business principles” are shit is that they realized this was a SovCit from a mile away and are treating them accordingly?
I never really understood what the hell these sovcits say because English ain’t my native language and I can’t understand a word of legalese even in my mother tongue, so I didn’t really bother with it’s English counterpart. Seeing the French word for “link” being randomly used here tell me that all they’re saying is just pure bullshit to sound smart.
I don’t know if that’s always true, but this is not an exception to that.
“right to hold property of another until debt is paid,” 1530s, from French lien “a band or tie” (12c.), from Latin ligamen “bond,” from ligare “to bind, tie” (from PIE root *leig- “to tie, bind”). The word was in Middle English in the literal sense “a bond, fetter,” also figuratively, “moral restraint.” also from 1530s
Certain loans and contracts can prevent you from being able to sell something without the lien being lifted.
For example, if you have a mortgage on a house, or in some cases if you’re paying a contractor to do renovations, you can’t just sell the house out from underneath them and run with the cash. Someone “buying” shit with a lien on it could outright lose it in some circumstances (though it would be pretty hard to get there for land because the process is so protracted).
It’s impressive that you can read their nonsense well enough to pick up on that. Other people have filled in enough context for you, but I wanted to compliment you on your English.
I work in storage. In my state, if you don’t pay your shit for like 30 days we can put a lien on it. We have to notify. If you continue to not pay it, we advertise twice in the paper, 1 week apart, then we auction you off on a website, where you can buy your own shit. Or if you lose, you have up until the moment the actual winner hands me cash money + deposit to pay your past due and resume ownership. All of this is like on a 90 day timeline.
And he did agree to that when he signed the lease on the storage space. It’s in the actual lease itself. The lease, depending on state, is required to delineate all of the steps. So he knows he is wrong. He knows he owes money. And he’s just mad. Boohoo. Pay your damn bill.
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