The Happy Thread

[ZephyrStar]

Years of planning and saving are finally coming to fruition... only 3 months left to go before I have everything I need. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA

[Taite]

Europe in 2 weeks for 2 weeks. This is what I've been needing.

[Animated]

Junk food everyday in here. I'm loving it

Europe in 2 weeks for 2 weeks. This is what I've been needing.

Let me guess... Is it Paris, London or Rome?

[Taite]

Let me guess... Is it Paris, London or Rome?

Haha, yess, all of them. But I'm also going to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, and Liechtenstein. I'll be dropping by all of the capitals, but I'm going other places within them as well.

[kenisama]

Finished my Afghan Dari Oral Proficiency Interview today! So glad its over... unfortunately I don't get the result for another week, though I'm fairly confident I got a passing score, the anticipation is going to kill me!

Spoiler :

The higher the score, the more money it'll mean in the long run

[Dr. Derpface, J.D.]

Back in March, some collector sends me a demand letter, saying I owe them some amount of money. Per my rights, I dispute the demand, and ask that they supply verification. Instead, they file a lawsuit against me. Well, in so doing, they rack up enough FDCPA violations (due to the timing of the lawsuit and undercutting the mandatory 30 day period to dispute the original demand) to be liable for more than they claim I owe them. I point this out in my counterclaim, citing the exact sections they are violating and how they are violating them. I document EVERYTHING. Every scrap of paper from them or that I send is kept. I file plenty of documentation proving they screwed up to go with both a motion to dismiss and the counterclaim.

Opposing counsel shows up late and unprepared for the motion hearing. Since I was acting pro se and it was my first appearance in front of a judge for any reason, I wasn't thinking on my feet enough to call them out on some BS excuse they gave that got them a stay on the motion to dismiss and time to find the legally required documentation. HOWEVER, turns out they probably never had it. Later that week I get an answer to my counterclaim, which is basically them throwing defenses at the wall to see what might stick. The very next day, they send an Agreed Order of Mutual Dismissal, offering to drop everything with prejudice. I called the opposing counsel to make 100% sure this would permanently end the matter, which they said it would. So now I'm just waiting on the final paperwork from the clerk's office to verify that the case is over.

tl;dr - I fought a bunch of sharks and won because I didn't roll over and let them take what they wanted. Score one for the little guy.

[Pwolf]

nice

[ZephyrStar]

FS.... please tell me... at some point... you had to have slammed your hands on your podium, pointed angrily, and yelled OBJECTION!!!

Anyway, grats on pooning the n00bs

[Dr. Derpface, J.D.]

Just got the filed copy of the order in the mail, signed by the judge. It's officially over now.

And sadly, no... I didn't get to put on my ace attourney hat and scream OBJECTION!!! That would have been epic, however.

[Radical_Yue]

Whoo~ New hair extensions

These are the prettiest red I've ever seen ever *_*