The power of the word "attorney".

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Some of the posts I read here have the power of taking me back to something that happened either to me or to mine. While I was reading tonight the post about bad customer service written by Tony ( @BearArtistLady ) I remembered something that happened to one of my best friends then and who had a happy ending thanks to my daughter who was then in her first year of Law School. My friend Gloria had rented part of her house and after a while the tennants stopped paying the rent. She asked, she pleaded to no avail. And weeks became months. She was talking about this in front of my daughter and her then BF Walter when he had a brilliant idea. Neither Claudia nor Walter had learned yet much about law. But they knew enough so as to concoct a fake letter full of legal terms and which at the end said that said letter had been sent with a copy to some mayor legal office. They had lots of fun doing it and the letter was a complete success. The very next day, the tenants started moving. They never paid Gloria what they owed her but at least they were out of her house and life. The word "attorney" seems to mean doom for some people, specially for those that are not behaving properly. And although only in TV movies do attorney appear immediatly, the word can be as powerful (and less expensive) than the attorney itself.