Annoying

Why I got so annoyed --

Well you know, aside from my little hissy fits about people not being able to sign in properly and the fact that I was physically miserable, pregnant, emotionally stressed, mentally stressed and having no clue as to my future . . .(I'll explain all of that later, I promise) there are just things about our clients that got on my last nerve.

We had one client that came in -she and her husband were having a house built or renovating, I forget which but anyway, she came in for some legal counsel because her painter used the wrong color on the walls.  What so --she asked for pink and he painted them blue?  Not exactly --they chose the color Eggshell and the painter used Linen --or something like that.  She brought in the labels from the paint cans and samples from the paint store and honestly, I had to hold them in the sunlight and really really really squint in order to see the difference.  But you know, her world was crumbling . . . she asked the painter to redo the walls which he agreed to do but told the woman he would still charge her for his time.  And like I said, this caused her world to shatter.  This woman came into our office no less than three times crying, whining and complaining she couldn't get her painter to redo the walls free of charge.   She annoyed me.  She whined and acted like the entire universe should come to a halt because her walls were eggshell and not linen.  I felt like our time could be better served you know, SERVING SOLDIERS.

I also had a short fuse for clients that came in and wanted to tell us what the laws were, "Well, I talked to this guy whose wife's aunt is a judge in Utah and he was telling me she told his wife. . . "  Uh, that's Utah, baby and that's about 3 persons far removed from you so . . . . . but these guys would come in all cocky and full of themselves.  Hey, if you already know the law why are you wasting our time?  They didn't necessarily really want to know the law, they just wanted to find a loophole to fit their desires.

I was torn between feeling sorry for and being annoyed by the young (dumb) soldiers THAT WE WARNED against a certain action and they decide not to heed the attorney's legal advise and then come in a few months later . . . like the soldiers that would bring in a lease for review and be STRONGLY advised against signing it but they were so impatient and anxious to get out of the barracks, usually because they just couldn't wait to live with their girlfriend, so they'd sign the lease anyway, get screwed over by the landlord then come in and want JAG to fix it and make it all better.

The young wives that would sign a legal separation and give everything to their husband, again against all legal advice, then come back in a few months and say, "I changed my mind . . ."  Honey, you signed a legally binding document.  The wife would say, "But I thought if I gave him what he wanted he'd come back home."  Ugh!   Granted the legal separation would be superseded by any divorce decree and the Army did require a certain amount of spousal support but even so, some woman just were so desperate to salvage their marriage and try to get their husbands to love them.  I guess "annoyed" is the wrong answer for this scenario but it did happen time and time again.

One soldier came in and wanted to sue the state of Alaska  . . .
Females that wanted to sue males for telling people they slept together . . and not because they didn't but because they did . . .

Day in and day out, I grew weary of such nonsense and honestly, because JAG services are at no cost to the soldier or family member, I think every and any whim that crossed some people's minds caused them to come in for help and if they had to pay for the service they would have thought more seriously about it.  Like, it had no value to them or something . . and that would bog down our appointment schedule.

But then there were those people that you really did help ---that really needed legal assistance and those clients, I loved them.  You'll meet a couple more of them.