caretaker

Lemon Hart and egg nog.

BristolUK

Thursday
Got a phone call Thursday, late afternoon...buyers need extra time. The short space between offer (Sat) and closing (Thurs) meant the buyer couldn't clear a cheque that day.

Okay...so long as that was the truth and not some cover for the other parties fleeing to Bolivia or something.

Tense Friday. No news in the morning. Blood sugar went low. BUt if a 24 hour delay, it wouldn't be until afternoon anyway. Calm down.

Into afternoon. No news by 2.30. Blood sugar low again. Drank orange juice, usually enough but blood sugar no better 30 mins later.

Emailed lawyer. "Buyer's lawyer on the way...I'm told..."
"I'm told"? So far as I'm aware. The language of the duplicitous politician covering his back.

But it all goes through and lawyer delivers my cheque.

On my way to my bank to deposit it, I see him coming out of another bank. Depositing his cheque or putting a stop on mine?

I'm not, by nature, a worrier but these last two years...

Almost Canadian

One wonders why they couldn't use bank drafts or certified cheques.

If your lawyer's cheque was a trust cheque (in Alberta it would have to have been) you are good as he wouldn't have issued it unless he had sufficient funds (it's a serious disciplinary breach to issue a trust cheque without sufficient funds).

Anyway, good to hear all ended well.

Davita

Re: post #767

I know that feeling well.
Some years ago I had a boat and put up a 'for sale' sign as I was too cheap to pay commission to a broker.
A couple of young brothers wanted to buy...but only if I'd take cash and record the sale price well under the actual. They didn't want to attract attention to Revenue Canada. I understood they were in the restaurant business (cash income) and so complied.
At the agreed time for the transaction, which happened to be in the evening, they turned up at the boat with an envelope full of cash and I gave them the boat's documents but said the keys would be held by the dock-master and could be collected from him.

The banks were closed...I had an envelope full of cash...it was dark in Downtown Vancouver....and I was nervous. WHAT IF...they had a gang on the street ready to recover the cash...they had the boats docs...the bill of sale and agreed note to get the keys...and I'd have nought and maybe a broken head!

I called my wife and she suggested I stay on the boat as it was in a secured marina and bank the money next day when open...this I did but it was almost a sleepless night...the slightest sound had me twitching.

Fortunately, all went well, and later I became friends with the new owners as I used their money to buy a bigger boat and moored close by.

bats

You've got a dishwasher?!

BristolUK

Other than the amount and payee, I didn't notice too much about the cheque, but the documents referred to "in trust" so it sounds like it.

Thanks.

It's a shame the first one didn't follow through nearly 3 months ago but you can't have everything.

R I C H

We've just completed on the sales of a business. 18 months of stress and BS from potential buyers. It was easier to own and run than the sales process itself.

Piff Poff

Congratulations

scrubbedexpat091

In this place yes. Newer buildings in BC tend to have them.

Piff Poff

Rice pudding with a blob of jam.

Shirtback

I'd quite like my bathroom to be a bit bigger: anyone over 5'4" has to kneel in the (over tub) shower & crouch/crawl sideways out of it, & forget actually having a bath in the mini tub! Shower/bath is crammed into a space under the building's main staircase, with sharply sloping ceiling over it. No way to install a shower curtain either! Fortunately the "room" (if one can call it that) is tiled all over.

Not the smallest I've ever had to deal with, that was a Paris apartment where the only way to sit on the loo one had to put one's feet in the shower.

This apartment has a reasonable kitchen, thankfully. I've lived in places where the fridge had to live in a corridor or the living room; & in places where kitchen & bathroom were separate from the house in the backyard.

scrubbedexpat091

When I lived in Vancouver the not so legal basement suite I shared did not even have a kitchen.

caretaker

The West Point Eggnog Riot of 1826:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog_Riot

caretaker

So I go into the LB to grab a bottle of Drambuie and an extra Scotch and there's a little recipe card on the shelf telling me how to make a rusty nail, and it says I should be putting a twist of lime in it! I haven't had a rusty nail in maybe 6 or 7 years, but I've had my share overall and never with a twist in it. I had limes so I tried it; totally unnecessary. That little advertising card is for the benefit of the people who print and sell little advertising cards, and no one else.

BristolUK

I broke a leg this morning.

I was following a suggestion from Caretaker about slow cooking a turkey leg but it was too long for the small pot I was using, so I broke it to fit.



Leeks, onion, carrots, red wine, chicken stew mix.