Catfishing #pezoutlaw

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I threw the big battery away but saved the broken plane as a Catfishing reminder.

MMMM, CATFISH, YUMMY. Not that kind of Catfish, idjet.

This morning I was contacted by someone looking at a big collection of collectibles, but the owner was vague on what they wanted.
No doubt this seller is on the up n up but the number of time I have run across this with Pez n Cereal Boxes where they weren't changed the way I do business.

In the beginning I would just send money to people n trusted pretty much everybody.
Now, anybody that I do not know of or that I did not source must send the product, then I send a check.

Josh, Steph n my turning point was a Pez deal.
Someone contacted me with some really cool stuff at a fair price.
I sent the check. A day or 2 later a box arrived containing a very big battery and a broke metal plane.
Thank God we were able to contact the bank n claw the money back. If I remember it was about $1,200.00.
This type of thing happened n does more than you would think.

Now when contacted about Cereal Boxes these days, I tell them.
Send the boxes n once they arrive I will send the check.
I always explain. You know who I am or you would not have contacted me.
I have no idea who you are.

I also have a hard n fast rule. 
If the seller indicates I'm bidding against someone for the items, I walk away.
Do not contact me about an item if you already have an interested buyer, because I will just say thank you for thinking of me n congratulate the other party on there win.

Never be pushed into a purchase.
If any kind of a hurry up or you will lose it strategy is employed by a seller.
Politely thank the for thinking of you, then run as fast as you can, holding tightly onto your wallet as you run.

One last thing.
When I'm thinking about buying something, I do not try to go cheap n hope I get it.
I offer what I'm willing to pay.
I know what something is worth to me for various reasons n factors, that's what I offer.
Decline that offer n what you have stays yours or somebody elses.

If I lose something after I offer what it's worth to me, I have no remorse.
Obviously that item is of no use to me at the higher price.

Believe it or not, each of these rules came into being after one scam or another.
I've even had people bitch me out after I refuse to send money up front to someone I've never heard of.
On the other hand, I had a guy who claimed to have worked at the printers for Ralston contact me with a pretty large amount of unused flats.
If ever there was a scam in the making that one bore all the earmarks.
Really cool stuff n lots of it.
We settled on $2.00 per box x 1,000+ boxes.
Reluctantly he said he'd ship.
To my amazement, it was real. I next day expressed his cashiers check.

The moral is sometimes fairytales do come true, but you must follow good business practices with strangers to be safe.
If you lose the buy, you have lost nothing because you can not lose what was never yours to begin with. 

There are a lot of people in the world today that think you are stupid, Don't prove them right.

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Pez Outlaw, Paradox Redux #pezoutlaw

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I write these things now, because when I'm in the middle of what will become the Pez Outlaw Hurricane I'm not sure how sane I will be.
I hope that I will handle everything the way I've been talking about, but is that enough.

I never am quite sure what people are up to when this n that go on in my life.
I can only control what I'm doing.
This comes up because every so often someone from Europe seems to be digging for info on my past life.
I jumped off that bridge almost 2 decades ago, so I just smile n answer politely.
Shoulda or shouldna is history n reduced to a good story.
I would be disappointed though if the motivations were other than honorable.

I don't regret my past but I wouldn't like it if my past was used to hurt someone else.
The reason I don't regret my past or yesterday is that I view every new day as a rebirth.
When I get up each morning yesterday is erased, I use each days rebirth as a new chance to be a better person.
I do not carry yesterday into today, yesterday is almost someone elses life.
That's where my alter ego "Pez Outlaw" comes in, that life was his life n I'm simply his biographer. Life will judge him as it decides.

It would be fare to say that I live in the moment n chronicle my past as a purge.
Should something that happened be hidden? Some would say yes.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Just wanted to say that even if it might actually be Hooey.
Truth is I like telling stories n I don't fear my past.
A hidden past is the only way it can cause you shame.
If you openly own your past nobody can use it against you.
I've told more dirt about myself than a gossip columnist.
I prefer that you hear it from me.

Paradox

Recently a visitor to the farm said thank you for your service after I mentioned that I'd been in the military.
I had to tell him that I'm not sure I'm allowed to accept that.
For that matter I've never been sure if I'm allowed to say that I'm even a veteran.

I also wonder about the whole situation now.
I joined the Marine Corps at age 17 and immediately (that very night) shipped out to boot camp.
The Marine Corps method in Boot Camp is to reduce the recruit to a blank slate then reshape you as a Marine.

What happens when this process goes wrong?
A little over a half year later the Navy Doctor diagnosed me as Schizophrenic and I was asked to leave.
No treatment was ever offered and no money to even get home, I had to hitch-hike from the east coast back to Michigan with nothing but the clothes on my back.
I was simply escorted to the front gate with nothing.
A few months later I received a discharge from the service as Medically Undesirable.
I eventually received a General Discharge.

Almost half a century later after sorting myself out without any help (except Kathy), I've begun to question a few things.
Nine months into military service my diagnosed condition manifested, yet no help or consideration was ever offered.
No help of any kind, zero.

Just seems like I got the rough end of the boot for something I never asked for and might very well have been triggered during my military service.
I gotta be honest, I'm not sure that I'm even allowed to say that I'm a veteran.

Your question is most likely.
After 50yrs why is this really on your mind?

Have you ever seen those commercials on the cable channels for VA Home Loans?
At the age of 67 and on social security, I thought what the heck and called the number.
After losing that half million dollars buying pez I was left with $250,000.00 in home and line of credit debt.
Kathy has paid it down to Approx $150,000.00 of combined debt over the last 20yrs.
Well that VA Loan thing to combine the Home Mortgage would be really sweet right about now.

The man was very polite and thanked me for my service?
Followed by the fastest Home Mortgage application known to man.
Wasn't asked to fill out a thing, just a 3 minute conversation, followed by sorry you don't qualify.
And like magic there I stood 50yrs ago at the outside of the Military Gate with nothing once again.

That is precisely why I said, "Am I Allowed To Ask"?

C1. Crazy Is Easy If You Are Motivated, #pezoutlaw...

So the guy says, we'd like to help you promote your book on amazon.
Well there are only 2 really REALLY BIG problems with that.
One I'm poor n two I can't figure out how to format n submit it to Amazon.
I tried n I really sucked.
Made the cover, submitted what I thought was the book????????????
Epic Fail.
A long conversation later n he ran away.
They always do.
Pez Outlaw Diary

I've never sent an email n I will not talk on phones. 
To be honest, I think I'd spontaneously combust the second I did.
facebook n twitter, that's it.

Scratch Offs are Karmic Thermometers.

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Pez Corporate Fraud, Pez Color War, Restitution.

Pez Outlaw, LIFE IS HARD! #pezoutlaw

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Cofession.

I have a deep need to prove to the future that I was here.

At the same time I realize that it means nothing.

Person Least Likely to succeed or acomplish anything.

My past is well known by all of you, so we will leave that be.

Safe to say my family n friends felt I would accomplish nothing.

I wonder, Has my life been about proving everybody wrong?

My failures have been Epic, My Highs have been pretty high.

I guess I've lived the definition of my whatever you want to call it, Bypolar or just plain crazy. I own that word crazy, I do not shrink from it.

For someone who watched n dreamed about movies to have one made about me is unthinkable, but a real joy.

My hope is to also leave behind a book.

The person least likely to succeed, n yet he wrote a book.

Pull the other one.

The Job.

There is a beauty to doing a job.

Hay, Lifting an auto waterer 12 inches out of the mudd hole it fell in, Roofing a hay barn, building Doghouse bale barns n the 10 yrs of projects that await me.

Some are very hard, some stretch your comfort zone, That roof/afraid of heights, The movie/going places n being around lots of people.

I learned working in the shop. Take a job in pieces, not as a whole.

Do what's in front of you.

Working in the mud the other day, if we hadn't been making progress it woulda sucked. But every time we gained a few inches, we cheered with joy.

I get great satisfaction from working. When I accomplish something I feel the day had worth.

The Pez Outlaw movie for me was a Job, no different than building anything I do here on the farm. When completed all I hoped was that it was done well. Then you move on to the next Job.

/Build or project.

Boundaries.

There are always limits n parameters we are forced to stay within.

They somewhat dictate the path we must take.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing unless you fight it.

Sometimes the confines of the problem requires you to get very creative. There is a joy in that.

This has been true my whole life.

The Jester

To me the jester was a very crafty devil in history. He had to tell the truth in a way that he still got to keep his head on his shoulders.

Pez Outlaw then 1990s n now has had to carefully navigate the pitfalls or that line that exist between sucess n failure without being noticed too much. I failed in the 1990s but I learned from it.

Anyway, just my opinion. Plus he makes me laugh.

As Tony Beets would say. "Make It Happening, ASP".

At a Glance you would underestimate him.

There are many characters within each of us.

The Best way to play the game is to be underestimated.

It gives you the freedom to move n accomplish your goals.

If you know who you are n patiently pursue your goals the rest is just noise.

#soon

sorry if i used the hashtag i want to, it would really let the cat outa the bag. so many secrets.

 

LIFE IS HARD!

Gotta write something about Birdie Cat.

This morning Mom said She is so Manipulative.

4am Birdie banging on the Window in the kitchen.

She wanted in, saying It's cold out here.

Birdie Cat really would prefer to eat her meals on a saddle cuboard in the arena. Problem is it draws Racoons. Since Rudy Dog passed that's a real problem.

Anyway Birdie Cat n I argue about where she should eat every meal, every day. N she wins more than I wanna admit.

Guess I better just get New Rudi. Red Bull Mastiffs are VERY Territorial. Old Rudi had all the critters backed off to the edge of where I mow. That went to poo after Old Rudi Passed.

You think Birdie Cat will listen to that, No!

Mom, Darlin Girl, Kathy said, is this our fault?

Yeah I think it is. Our goal has always been to raise perfect critters.

There is an innosence child like nature to each one, we try to let that pure quality survive there whole lives.

The bad news I think we are getting good at it. Downside, they have a lot of opinions n you start feeling like there employees.

The Upside. 

You Know BlackHawk/Hawk the horse arrived here a year or so ago.

He's not a youngun. But after a good bit he has gone back to being a very young n childlike in nature. That is very rewarding. Hawk has such a beautiful innocence about him. He is just plain HAPPY.

A joy to know n watch.

Ilona Stevens

I love this! My employers wake me every morning to make sure breakfast is done correctly.

Steve Glew

Ilona Stevens we need to start a union. Fare treatment n less lip from our employers.

Commie Pinko #pezoutlaw

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There are things that sound funny in your head but the censors (in your head) cut from public viewing.

This one slipped out.
This post is written as a JOKE.
Send all complaints to Joe McCarthy.


It seems an explanation is in order. 
Kathy says nobody understands my intent.
This post is meant in humor, it's meant as a display of lunacy. 

Forgive me, I think it's ridiculously funny.
And I'm still getting stares, OK Dark humor then.
This was my childhood.

We actually did the "Duck n Cover Drills".
People actually had fallout shelters when I was a child.
This is not a political statement.

I don't do politics, There Big Boys n Girls, they can handle there own stuff.
If they can't, then they have no business being there.
I'm not going to lose family or friends fighting for them.

Stop The Presses though for a good Commie Pinko Red Scare.
My childhood demands I stop my life, my dreams n my goals n get on board.
Plus it's FUN.

I have always loved the slur, Commie Pinko. Nothing is more fun than calling a friend a Commie Pinko for some very small disagreement or indiscretion.
It just cracks me up. 

Had it not been for Americas favorite Knucklehead Wildman Joe McCarthy we would not have this affectionate moniker for a dear friend who has strayed.

That's it. Short n sweet.
Purity in brevity. 

Oh yeah, sorry almost forgot.
I want to apologize to any Commie Pinko's my remarks might have offended.
Commie Pinko's are kinda touchy bout that name. OOPs did it again. Sorry, sorry.

Where's Waldo?

My childhood, Readers Digest version.

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Pez Outlaw, 5 stages of grief #pezoutlaw

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The Kübler-Ross model, or the five stages of grief, postulates a series of emotions experienced by survivors of an intimate's death, wherein the five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

With everything happening right now this has many applications n meanings.
That said, let's leave the broader analysis to better minds n better writers. 
I'm only an expert on my own experiences.

I've had an 18 year journey with the 5 stages of grief.
My entire life I felt an emptiness n longing for something.
In the 1990s in my 40s I finally felt I'd found the thing I'd been searching for.

In later years our lives are comprised of our memories.
With each of us one section of our life stands out to us as that time period that defines us.
For some it's High School, others it's war n the brotherhood they experienced, Birth, children n family.
My life defining period where I lived as I had dreamed to my whole life were my years as Pez Outlaw.

It's not important that my dreams manifested in the form of Pez dispensers.
What's important is that my yearning to achieve purpose n success independently was finally in my grasp.

I'd found my muse in Pez, something I could shape to find meaning and achieve my life's yearnings.
All went well for quite a while, I thought I finally had the world by the tail.

At the end of a decade I realized sometimes you think you've got the gator when in reality, the gator has you.
I set myself up for disaster when I brokered a 1/2 million dollar deal with Pez Corporation, unable to realize the treachery that lay just around the corner.

After years of beating Pez Corporation at every turn, I had begun to believe I was invincible.
I started believing my own myth.

What followed is well documented in Pez Outlaw Diary so I won't bore you here.
The short of it is I lost every penny.

That was 1998 n the year I started the 5 stages of grief that actually lasted for the next 18 years.

Denial
For the next 3 years 1998 thru 2001 I refused to accept what had happened n fought with everything I had to beat Pez Corporation.
In true David vs Goliath fashion I had a few wins.
I destroyed the marketability of the product that had been produced to destroy me.
I also believe that what I call The Pez Color War (see  C12. The Day I Died) led to the retirement of the President of Pez USA Scott McWhinnie.  

Reality though was my wins came at a very deep cost.
I lost almost everything I'd spent over 20 years building.
So, Denial I think covers it pretty good.
 
Anger
In 2001 I reached my anger phase which manifested itself as my book Pez Outlaw Diary , which I spent most of the next decade writing n rewriting.
My anger n hatred was palpable, I was like a mean old dog with a bone.
I honestly don't blame all the folks that ran away, just tired of hearing it.     

Bargaining
Bargaining took 2 forms, both of which occurred more or less at the same time starting in 2011. 
I created ebay listings for Pez Outlaw Diary  ,one to publish it as a book n the other for the movie rights.
At the same time I also created a chapter ( C13. Hollywood or Bust  )that can only be described as bargaining on many levels.

Depression
After the initial high of my genius plan (Sarcasm Sheldon) in bargaining, which lasted a year or so came depression.
My depression lasted about 3 years, say 2012 to 2015.
Depression is probably why I behaved like such a jerk to the Hollywood producer who initially contacted me in 2014.

Acceptance
In 2015 when Jeff Maysh contacted me about writing his story, I was finally at the acceptance stage in my grief.
I realized Pez Outlaw Diary had gone as far as I could take it, so this time I said yes. 
Jeff flew out from California n spent a weekend doing his interview.
Jeff's story The Pez Outlaw has since won 2 awards.

As jeff was in his car leaving I asked him to roll down his window.
Hey Jeff you should contact X movie producer who contacted me a year ago, I owe him for my jerk behavior.

Jeff did contact X movie producer n I am currently under contract for movie n book rights.
No comment beyond that.

I can't control the world or fix it.

All I can do is deal the best I can with what's in front of me. 

I have narrowed my world to the 20 acres that I live on n rarely leave it.

When an animal or one of my dogs does something I find different than my way of thinking, I always say that that's between them n god.

I used to listen to the news till noon almost every day.

I find myself switching over to the Highway or Willies Roadhouse earlier n earlier every day now. 

Even 4 n 8 years ago I got all wound up about politics, no more. 

So what do you do n what can you do?

Honestly all you can control is who you are by trying to be a good person.

Do your job.

If what you have to say will hurt someone, don't say it. 

If every person in the world would just strive to be decent n honest, I figure that would do it.

It seems like every month now something terrible happens.

People get all wound up about stuff that has no real relationship with why we are here.

We are here to do the best we can n then be measured by it.

I no longer join anything n I do not seek the outside world for purpose.

I have more in common with the Amish than regular folks.

You want to live in servitude to false idols n causes, well that's between you n God.

I no longer judge or care, not my job.

I do what needs doin n fix what I can.

I recognize what I can not fix.

My tools are duct tape, zip ties, a drill n a tractor.

I know n accept my limitations. 

Animals bring me joy, I understand them.

People bring me sadness. 

I wish that that were not so but regrettably it is. 

I accept that I can not fix it.

I walk with animals now.

They make sense. 

Humans are to busy for me anymore.

The things I do now concerning the outside world have only one purpose.

To secure my world.

So yes I bang on about Pez Outlaw, but that's only so I can pay the debt that threatens my world.

Once that debt's paid I just don't care anymore.

So there are my 5 stages of grief.
see you at the movies.

Christmas Lights in Mid July.
Complete laziness or thinking ahead?
Well over halfway there, starting to look like a go getter.

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