So, my wife and I were discussing our website(s) and she said to me, "I think we ought to hire someone to rework the sites".
I said to her that "I think I can do as good of a job as any designer out there", so she said "prove it".
Well, she had me, now I was gonna have go do it.
First I got on the computer and sent myself an email asking myself what I could do for me. Well, I spent 3 weeks, sending emails every couple of days but I finally got a hold of myself and found out I was a pretty busy guy.
I told myself that I might be able to give it a look see in a week or two but that if I continued to be so damned pushy I could go find myself someone else to do the job. I calmed down some and apologized to myself profusely and assured myself that it would never happen again.
Well, a couple of weeks went by, which gave me some time to check my references and get together a few times for drinks with people who I had worked to see how reliable I was and such, and I got real drunk one night and got on the computer at 3 in the morning and sent myself an estimate that didn't make much sense to me but I sent an email back accepting it anyway.
I sent myself a reply that said that I could start on it tomorrow but that I needed a 50% deposit before I could start.
So I paypalled myself the 50% deposit.
I haven't heard a peep out of myself since then and that was like 6 months ago.
I do occasionally get on the boards and call myself out but so far I haven't replied.
My wife told me that I should probably get a lawyer and sue myself and I told her that I thought I could do as good a job as any lawyer…..
(adapted from a routine I heard on xm this morning about dealing with contractors. I didn't catch the comics name...sorry bout that)