[TexasTransplant]

**** “That was dumb. If you have no way to pay the man, you need to let him take the food back.” *****

BS

Have the man keep the check as an IOU come in the next day and pay with Cash, get the check back.

I have done similar for FAR MORE MONEY. Many of my Contracts are un-written, just a handshake. In all of my years the only problem that I have ever had were with the folks that wanted 27 pages of small print.

Cops just don’t like to be dismissed.

I’m 20 years the Generals Jr but I still work with a Mans Word is his Word.

[SamAdams76]

I was in the military as well but I’ve learned the hard way that a man’s word is not always to be relied upon.

[kiryandil]

Have the man keep the check as an IOU come in the next day and pay with Cash, get the check back.

"Bedgood [Livsey's personal caregiver and driver] said he left to pay the food bill in person at the restaurant, and when he returned, police in force had Livsey in cuffs outside with individual police units stationed at several intersections in the neighborhood."

I smell boot leather and steroids...