Well, J since you asked:
I will say now that I went against my normal rules, so had it ended more badly it would have been my fault.
Got an outcall to a guys house, when I get there, he is hopped to the gills on charlie, I don't have a problem working with these types of clients, you just have to figure out what the tick they have is and use it to your advantage. I got loads of experience working in Amsterdam! So, I am there for 15mins, and not money, ok so I begin to mention this fact, and I start to get the oh I couldn't take money out of the cash machine, because he had reached his limit for the day. OK can happen, so I decided to get lost and just chalk it up to a really rotten day. Then this little voice in my head said, "play this one out", as my normal alarm bells are ringing away. It was a terribly slow day, no calls, and the night wasn't any better. So, I stayed, and at around 8am, I said, ok let's go to the bank now and get my money. Well, guess what, the truth comes out. The 2.5 million euro house he is in, is his wifes. he was house sitting because he was let out on a weekend pass from his drug rehab center to come home!
I went cold! I walked up to him, grabbed him by the shirt collar pushed him against the wall, and told him, " If you don't get my fucking money now, I will systematically begin to destroy this house room by fucking room!" He pailed, and picked up the phone to call, guess who.... not his wife, but his mother! Who, god love the woman came over to the house with her sister for support, and wrote me out a check for the agreed upon amount. Then as she was taking him to task, the sister told me how the father had just died, and the mother was recovering from Breast cancer, and how this was normal for him, cause he basically was always in trouble, and having to call mommy to rescue him! Did I feel, really shitty taking that check! Yes, did I cash it, Yes! And would you believe he had the nerve to call me a few days later! I told him, I had his mothers number and would call her on him! Never heard from him again! This happened on Valentine's day morning 2008! I was away from my family, and various lovers, so I was NOT a happy camper!
I do get into some very funny situations.