Can I Borrow A Subway Token?
What a day we had yesterday. It was Lexie day.
So we lined up a shoot, rented a nice suite, and we're supposed to meet Dickhead and Lexie. Dickhead calls. He says our girl isn't gonna shoot unless she can get paid something today. He wants to borrow money from us to pay her. Yeah, ok, whatever, just get the damned girl here. Oh, but wait for it, it gets better. He wants us to pick him up at the subway station.
And that's not all! We're to act as though we work for him in front of the girl, she's to think that we're part of his company. Ok, we're to loan the guy money, we pick him up at the subway in one of our cars (Lexus, Mercedes, Corvette, take your pick depending on who is driving), and we're supposed play step and fetch it in front of the girl. Somehow, no one snaps, the word to him is still just get the damned girl here.
Now we're sitting in the suite, we've hauled up the lights and equipment, and we're waiting on him and the girl. GonZo's phone rings. We knew this was coming. The girl has blown up on him and aint coming. Basically she's figured out he's full of shit. He's handling it all wrong, threatening her with breech of contract and such. At this point, he's lost her, we want a chance to make a save and GonZo wisely tells Dickhead to give him her damned number and let's see if we can save the situation. He does.
He's out at this point, he's lost the deal and can bring nothing but harm. Now the goal is for us to get in front of the girl and try to detox her and do business the RIGHT way.
GonZo makes the call and is met with some resistence but manages to at least dangle some money in front of her and gets her to agree to meet us for dinner. She's only available for a late dinner, and it's like 4 in the afternoon. Ok, fine. So we're stuck pulling pecker, we end up having a bad ass Costco hotdog to hold us over while doing a bit of shopping. We end up back at the suite watching Larry the Cable Guy to pass the rest of the time. So by the time dinnertime rolls around, we're ready to "git er done!".
She shows up with her boyfriend at dinner, and yes she's hot....she's hella hot. We can tell they're very apprehensive. We later learn that they showed up under the assumption we were associated with Dickhead, and they were going to just politely tell us not interested. But apparently with a bit of professionism, courtesy and honesty we made a good impression. They stayed for dinner and we all had a good laugh making fun of Dickhead's antics. As we suspected, he's been lying and working her from the minute he met her, and also lying to us about finding her. She was referred to him.
We tell her how it really is, show her we are what we purport to be and generally treat her with respect and as a potential business partner. We also know she's been jerked around, so we put a little money in her pocket by buying the release of the sets that GonZo shot.
We received every indication that she's willing to work with us and let us build a site around her. We sent her home with one of our contracts to review, and we'll see if we can come to terms and shoot her within the next week. We're optimistic. All she really wanted is what she deserves, which is to be dealt with honestly and professionally.
As for Dickhead, we're done, he's done. If we have our way he wont be contaminating any more girls. And we've let Lexie know to send him our way if he calls her starting any shit. If he wants to sue, dont sing it, bring it. Any referral fee he was due was used up with the costs we laid out for the shoot he didn't deliver. In fact, if he gives us any crap at all we'll send him an invoice. Though I'm not sure I wanna be paid in subway tokens.
So we lined up a shoot, rented a nice suite, and we're supposed to meet Dickhead and Lexie. Dickhead calls. He says our girl isn't gonna shoot unless she can get paid something today. He wants to borrow money from us to pay her. Yeah, ok, whatever, just get the damned girl here. Oh, but wait for it, it gets better. He wants us to pick him up at the subway station.
And that's not all! We're to act as though we work for him in front of the girl, she's to think that we're part of his company. Ok, we're to loan the guy money, we pick him up at the subway in one of our cars (Lexus, Mercedes, Corvette, take your pick depending on who is driving), and we're supposed play step and fetch it in front of the girl. Somehow, no one snaps, the word to him is still just get the damned girl here.
Now we're sitting in the suite, we've hauled up the lights and equipment, and we're waiting on him and the girl. GonZo's phone rings. We knew this was coming. The girl has blown up on him and aint coming. Basically she's figured out he's full of shit. He's handling it all wrong, threatening her with breech of contract and such. At this point, he's lost her, we want a chance to make a save and GonZo wisely tells Dickhead to give him her damned number and let's see if we can save the situation. He does.
He's out at this point, he's lost the deal and can bring nothing but harm. Now the goal is for us to get in front of the girl and try to detox her and do business the RIGHT way.
GonZo makes the call and is met with some resistence but manages to at least dangle some money in front of her and gets her to agree to meet us for dinner. She's only available for a late dinner, and it's like 4 in the afternoon. Ok, fine. So we're stuck pulling pecker, we end up having a bad ass Costco hotdog to hold us over while doing a bit of shopping. We end up back at the suite watching Larry the Cable Guy to pass the rest of the time. So by the time dinnertime rolls around, we're ready to "git er done!".
She shows up with her boyfriend at dinner, and yes she's hot....she's hella hot. We can tell they're very apprehensive. We later learn that they showed up under the assumption we were associated with Dickhead, and they were going to just politely tell us not interested. But apparently with a bit of professionism, courtesy and honesty we made a good impression. They stayed for dinner and we all had a good laugh making fun of Dickhead's antics. As we suspected, he's been lying and working her from the minute he met her, and also lying to us about finding her. She was referred to him.
We tell her how it really is, show her we are what we purport to be and generally treat her with respect and as a potential business partner. We also know she's been jerked around, so we put a little money in her pocket by buying the release of the sets that GonZo shot.
We received every indication that she's willing to work with us and let us build a site around her. We sent her home with one of our contracts to review, and we'll see if we can come to terms and shoot her within the next week. We're optimistic. All she really wanted is what she deserves, which is to be dealt with honestly and professionally.
As for Dickhead, we're done, he's done. If we have our way he wont be contaminating any more girls. And we've let Lexie know to send him our way if he calls her starting any shit. If he wants to sue, dont sing it, bring it. Any referral fee he was due was used up with the costs we laid out for the shoot he didn't deliver. In fact, if he gives us any crap at all we'll send him an invoice. Though I'm not sure I wanna be paid in subway tokens.
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