[Blood of Tyrants]

It just may be that not all people are motivated by greed. Perhaps thay just didn't want to sell at ANY price.

[cajun-jack]

a personal story...in 1972 my dad had a stroke that left him disabled. He loved to fish and had a very nice Monarch 14 foot heavy duty john boat. The kind they didn't make anymore. Up until he died in 1983, several people tried to buy it for as much as $500.00 (he only paid $50 for it back in the 60's). Dad wouldn't sell it and they would ask "why not, you can't use it anymore?" Daddy's reply was always the same "maybe not like I used to, but Jack can take me fishing once in a while when i feel up to it and it's paid for and doesn't take up much room and besides, dumbass, I told you I don't want to sell it!!!"

A boat might be a lot different from a home and land, but the principle was the same...maybe, dumbass, she just don't want to sell it."

not calling you a dumbass, just using the same answer my dad always gave them.