Two years ago, again out raking leaves for garden. I came across a man blowing his leaves in multiple piles, stopped to see what he was going to do with them. I approached him with the same questions, "what are you going to do with your leaves? I'd like them for my organic garden." He had only half of his half acre done, and at this point ready to give up. "Well its funny that you say that your doing that for your garden, as I do the same. If you help me, we can split the piles" "Okay"

So we spent the next hour or so talking about gardens and such, as we started to piling the leaves up for his garden, and making a pile for mine. He had never heard of the hot pepper that i grew and wanted to try them out, his wife loves hot stuff. I just so happen to have a bag left of the powder pepper, since i dehyrdrate mine and grind them down to a powder for seasoning. So I grab the bag and give it to him after we done dummping the leaves in the back of my truck, and tell him, if he wants more, to let me know. "Well, i dont have a pen, do you have a card?"

(I sell my hot peppers at the local farmer's market, its a "side business")

"No, but i had my other computer card.  Which has the same information you'll need" "okay well let me give this to my wife and it's nice to know young people grow vegitables too." So I thanked him for his leaves, before I could back out of his driveway, he flags me down. "HEY, My wife wants to meet you, she has a couple of computer questions!"

So, i meet his wife, an intelligent 30 yr retiree english high school instructor, and highly paranoid. She's having all kinds of problem with her computer, radio is cutting on and off, her neighbor is a private investigator, blah blah blah.

So we sit down to look at the computer, which by this time, four binders pop out. Its a log sheet of all the i.p.'s that are "hacking" her computer. It goes back for two years. She knows alls kinds of information about ip's, shit I didnt even know what hell she was talking about. She was right too.

So after a week of sitting down with this intelligent woman, and after many other projects she's had me done, it was time to tackle the big whopper. Why is all these ip keep logging into the computer, then I notice she has a wireless router. A wireless router, in which she has a wire ran from the pc to the router.

"okay, so you use the wireless part?" "Nah, but its there for future purposes" "Im going to disable the wireless" "NO, YOU CANT DISABLE THE WIRELESS, ITS NOT POSSIBLE, THOSE HACKERS PREVENTED ME TO DO SO!" " Look on the bottom of your router, see that ip address? thats your link to the router, I bet you still have it setup, as it came out of the package." "DO YOU KNOW SUCH AND SUCH, I BET YOU DO, YOUR ALL INTO IT WITH ME, ALL OF YOU HACKERS" " See, im disabling your wireless, lets watch what happens"

For the next 10 minutes we both stare at the screen as the connections are droppped one by one, had to be 10 or more. So I left, and said "dont pay me until your satisfied"

Two weeks later, I get a call from her, "Here look at this log" "Your log book is empty...? Yeah? " "Well here's the money you earned, I gave you a little extra, to make it worth your while"

So I bid her well, told her not to be affraid to call me again, I'd be more than happy to help her out. As I get in the truck, I counted in cash, Two hundred and fifty dollars.

Boy, I bet there are some local people out there pissed because that connection is down! She hasnt called me since, and this year, as last, I'll still go rake her yard.

*btw I had only had charged her $40, that was after spending a little over 12 hrs at her house, in which I normally charge $10 an hour. I cut her a deal, but she decided it was worth more.