Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for July 04, 2013

$50?? I thought Val wasn’t making good money there…

She isn’t the bribes are preventing her from making the good money. :)

Yah, Dickerson doesn’t seem to get the concept of Karma. Blackmailing hard-earned money out of the hands of a widowed, working mother of two, who has no other income, and would just like a day to herself, is going to come back to bite him in the butt so hard, he won’t have anything to sit on.

She was caught leaning … what the devil is Dickerson doing there? She shouldn’t be paying him off … lol!

I’m sorry but I’m really disappointed she’s paying off this slimy little piece of crap. All she has to do is say : “You do know blackmail is illegal, and did I ever introduce you to my boyfriend the cop?”

Or just let him go back and tell. She can deny it. It’s his word against hers.

Murphy’s Law says Val turns out to be incubating a nasty bug and has to be home the rest of the week.

Dickerson tells on her, gets embarrassed when her doc certifies her bona fides, then comes down with it himself.

She’s a dope. I would have said that I’m here to get some Dayquil and Tylenol. And then went outside and key his car! >:D

Giving in to a blackmailer only causes them to keep coming back for more. Stupid stupid stupid of her to try to pay him off!

Ya, what is Dickerson doing out shopping? Isn’t he supposed to be at work too?

The single malt scotch would have been cheaper, I think ! !

What will probably happen is that he’ll keep blackmailing her and she’ll just go to her boss and confess what she had done. And because she hasn’t done it before, she’ll be okay. She’ll also tell her boss that Dickerson has been blackmailing her. And the moment that he tries again and she says no, he goes to tell the boss, and then he’ll get into trouble. OR even better, she tells her boyfriend cop and all he— will come loose.

Interesting to see where this goes.

I’d not pay anyone off. You end up paying forever.

The current American way (Happy 4th/Independence Day), create a problem then throw money at it.

She could have gotten out of it very easily. All she would have had to say was that it was a female thing. No man is going to question that.

Oh come on!

Val is not too bright.

No, he’s going to blab and it’s going to get out anyway, and Val is out her fifty bucks for nothing. Try getting THAT back.

I wouldn’t have paid either, just cough and wheeze, and maybe sneeze on them, making them think you just gave “it” to them.

That’s why I love working remotely. All of my coworkers and bosses live in other states. I have a few coworkers who live in my state but they are several hours away from me.

Hhm! Appropriately named, he is.

I knew this wasn’t going to end well.