Insanity, repeating the same task expecting different results...

Or, welcome to David Meyers world.

As usual The Judge sided with David Symons and allowed the meeting to be pushed up by a week. A blatant attempt to disrupt mothers, Joey and Katy's plans, as they were not due to be home from the cottage for several more days. The sheriff took care of that. Thank god we risked life and limb as well as felony charges and put together a detailed inventory, albeit hurried because of a small issue with the sheriff and the judge and, well you get the point.

The hurried weekend was used to photograph everything in both cottages, and create a detailed inventory list, oh and a dinner party!

Suffice it to say the other party came empty handed and unprepared, as usual. In hind sight I should have not shared our list, I am convinced the out come of events would have been different. Now understand, as most of you will, over a period of 100 years or so, one accumulates a lot of stuff, and we wanted the few items that we had either bought, built or provided along with a few items of sentimental value. You would have thought we were pulling teeth.

We had requested that there be no attorneys present, hey, what was so difficult about sitting down face to face and coming to terms on some contents....
apparently a lot for some of the participants.

The morning started with Mr Meyer stating that he thought he could get this whole thing done in an hour, perhaps less. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was he thinking? He put David Stu and Phill in one room and Betsy, Mr. Campbell and I in another. Oh yea, we lost on the no attorney issue as well.

I questioned Mr Meyer as whether he hadn't learned anything from our previous three meetings where he insisted on separate rooms and the ensuing results. He felt confident that things would be different this time, right.

As usual the onus was on us to provide a list of what we wanted, which was then rebuffed by David and Stu. Almost everything that mother and Katy wanted, David and Stu decided they wanted. I again told Mr Meyer that it would be impossible to negotiate on personal items if we cannot sit down face to face. He assured me again, he had everything under control, right.

For over two hours he walked back and forth, accomplishing nothing. I finally told him unless we meet face to face, we are out of here.

So in comes David and Stu, as well as his counsel, talk about three blind mice. Needless to say we had finagled them into getting pretty much all of what we wanted.

We were down to several(3) items that Mr. Meyer felt deserved a special sort of arraignment. His plan was brilliant, he wanted us to draw numbers, nope I am not kidding you. So we drew numbers. David and Stu sat there with a dumbfounded look on their face not sure what to do next so I drew #1 and Betsy drew #3. David then drew #2 and Stu drew #4, how fitting Stu was out of luck. So sorry!

So we got two out of three, and a small victory.

Oh, the whole procedure once we met face to face, 30 minutes.

But as usual, there were no plans as to when we could get our stuff out, typical of Mr Meyer. That was ironed out several days later, hey getting paid all that money you don't expect him to think of everything did you?

So a small battle was won, and we were off to yet another motion filed by David Symons. Something we had become accustomed to, and for those keeping score, motion # 23 or 24. Bring on William Street.