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I'd say if they lost their cutter past your daughter's line, then they are at fault. They didn't have to retrieve their cutter, they chose to do that, excavation was not on her property...
My daughter had her floor drain backup and called in a drain service to check things out ... they ran a root cutter into the 4" main and ended up getting it stuck ... at that point they said the line must be damaged and ended up calling in a construction company to dig up the street to retrieve the cutter. At that point it was discovered that no problem existed, other than a lot of roots in the line, and the cutter was hung up because the operator couldn't pull it back ... it was all wadded up with roots and it had been pushed past the 4" cast iron line and into the larger clay tile under the street.
The question I have is for the plumbers here as I was wondering if it is normal practice to bill the customer, my daughter in this case, for all of the excavation costs in this kind of a situation? While I understand the roots should have been addressed sooner (had she known) but it seems to me that at least some of the fault lies with the drain service for not being a little more careful in clearing the line
Feel free to tell me I'm an idiot for thinking this but my daughter doesn't have the thousands of dollars to pay this kind of bill and this has put her in a big bind
I'd say if they lost their cutter past your daughter's line, then they are at fault. They didn't have to retrieve their cutter, they chose to do that, excavation was not on her property...
If it were me, I'd have my lawyer explain to them that they are supposed to know what they're doing, and if they screw up, it's their problem, no matter where they lost their cutter. Surely they carry insurance for this sort of thing?
One of the advantages of hiring a licensed professional is that they assume the liability of damages to property. This is clearly their problem. If they are seeking your daughter to pay for this, then I would urge her to consult an attorney immediately.
I agree. Fight the drain cleaning company. Anyone who does drain cleaning as a profession knows that you have to be very careful on root bound lines.
Slowly keep digging into the roots, pull back and clear the end of your cable and repeat till it is a easy path through the main.
The discovery of roots only and no collapsed line was a misjudgement on their part which has no responsibility back to your daughter. All she is liable for is the drain cleaning charge, no excavation.
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In fact, you might try paying them only the drain cleaning fee, and tell them your attorney said they have no legal right to recoup any money lost due to damages beyond her control.
Be sure you pay them the drain cleaning fee!
I wouldn't even pay them the drain cleaning fee if there are still roots in the line. In fact, I might sue them for stress and aggravation, as well as for any time I might have missed from work. I'm sure one of you plumbers would be happy to be hired as an expert witness for the lady.
No they apparently cleaned the line, losing their cutter in the process. If you don't pay them the cleaning fee, then they are entitled to put a lien on your property, so always be sure to pay them for what you contracted for.
I'd say operator incompetence and he tried to do the job too quickly.
You always have to sneak up to the obstruction carefully so as not to get that bound up.
And if you think there are too many roots, stop and talk to the customer and give them the choice having you continue or excavate.
Explain it to them and let them decide.
thanks for all the comments ... I guess I'm not crazy after all
One other thing. If they torn up your yard excavating the line, they have to restore it to your satisfaction.
She is in a gray area. I might not have gotten the snake caught in the line, but if the roots are too inpenetrable the line might still have had to have been excavated to remove them and repair the pipe where they entered it. It is even happens in some cases that the pipe is not repairable and has to be completely replaced, but that does not seem to be the case here. Even if the sewer could have been cleared, that only cures the problem for a period of time. The roots would still grow back and each time they grow back they become harder to remove because they bescome thicker and longer each time. Eventually excavation and repair/replacement will be necessary. Normally I would side with the homeowner in a situation like this, but in this case I get the impression that the stuck snake was incidental to what was required to perform the job.
sorry to be slow in responding to this but ...
it's my understanding that after they dug up the line and removed the root cutter, the only thing they did was add PVC to the existing 4" cast iron so that it would drain into the city's clay tile (since they had to break the last section of clay to access the root cutter they would have needed to do something to "reconnect" the lines)
Had they done something to fix the problem I could understand the bill but it looks to me like they dug up the street and didn't really do a darn thing to keep the problem from recurring
I'll be having a little chat with them tomorrow on behalf of my daughter and we'll see where things go ...
thanks again for all the input
What are they charging in relation to what normal drain cleaning charges were?
Leaving the problem to reoccur is not good......unless this discrepancy evolved midstream of the events taking place.
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I don't have a copy of her bills but I believe she said around $500 for drain cleaning and around $2500 for digging up the street


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deepbluehum wrote:I'm not sure you are, but I would find it troubling that someone who is a global moderator for a Buddhist forum not only ascribes to but espouses that kamma, phala and rebirth are not necessary Buddhist teachings.
I'm not quite that extreme. Although I do note that Soto Zen is widely accepted as Buddhism and last I heard many practitioners do not subscribe to rebirth. I'd have to check that tho.
Here's where I sit at the moment.
1. kamma as cause and effect is really, really hard to deny on any grounds.
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My shoulder is really sore now. It's pulled up higher than the left and really hurts to try relax it. I am going to run anyway and go see my chiro later today. Its a beautiful morning to be outside 38 with a light wind. Other than my shoulder my body feels wonderful and feels like its getting tighter and lighter! One thing I have been really struggling with lately is getting enough sleep. I get up at 5:30 am and workout and get started on the day before everyone else starts in with their demands on me. So I am ready for bed at 8:30 but everyone else besides my two youngest are just starting on their evening and still are opening my bedroom door and waking me. It is so frusturating cause it is so hard for me to be woke multiple times and then get to sleep again and of course soon I am angry and then sleep is impossible. Last night however I got excellent sleep and feel so good this morning! What a difference adequate sleep makes.
AJ How are you?
Claire still hope to hear from you. Don't quit!!!
8 days left in this challange! Just got back from an excellent LBWO. My legs were shaking when I was on my last set. I have one LBWO left in this challange. The time has gone and I am stronger for sticking with it. I feel really good about what I have accomplished so far. My shoulder feels better after my workout. I think holding those weights for my leg workout created traction on the muscle and helped with the spasm! To think last night when I went to bed I was comptemplating skipping my workout cause my shoulder was so sore. Ha, it was good for me! Well, today we are going to be getting our fist snow storm of this season. It is supposed to last all weekend and my husband just left today to go on a hunting trip! Good thing I have some big boys to help me around here.
Hope all is well with you AJ.
Hi Val,
I'm still on track and doing well. Sorry I haven't been online much. It sounds like your running is going AWESOME! I'm so proud of you! Keep up the good work girl! Wow! You are very disciplined about getting out there and just doing it. "Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out" Robert Collier. YOU ARE DOING IT!!!!! And your family benefits as well. And your weight training is going well too. Hope your shoulder is doing ok. I have issues with one shoulder and have been trying to train around it as well. Boyfriend is a help there as he can give me pointers on alternative lifts that won't bother the shoulder as much. (Thanks Boyfriend!)
I'm going to be posting in sections because either this site or my computer is acting wacky. Bear with me please. ha ha
We are doing this! It is so incredible. I really feel so fabulous. Now I'm cranky if I miss a day of working out. I've got 9 days left, because I started a little after you started. But I don't want it to end. I don't want to lose this good feeling and positive attitude that's been generated. Right now I feel like anything is possible.
I think my New Years Resolution is going to be the "Year of the Butt" :0) LOL I saw that in a fitness magazine last night and that is a spot where I could use some extra toning and shaping.
Okay, gotta run. You are making awesome progress Val, keep it up!
Claire, are you still out there? We miss you!
PS - Val, I want to see your progress photos when you are done with the 12 weeks! Show it off girl!
Hi, I have been away due to weather. Lol. We had a blizzard this weekend so the kids were home and with all the outdoor clothes and food needing to be made and messes cleaned up I was hard at work all weekend. School was cancelled yesterday due to roads being plugged with snow so yesterday was the same! School today Yay!! I am going to get some Christmas shopping done this morning! I have been really procrastinating and now its down to the wire. We are having my families Christmas this weekend! Nothing like pressure to make a person get things done.
I have been running and lifting but my diet is pure B A D. I have got to turn that around today! I feel terrible and swollen from all the simple carbs I have been consuming. Headaches and just yuck.
AJ I will make it the "Year of the Gut"! I would like to have a defined stomach. I have a small pooch that I can't seem to ever get rid of. I am sure I just need to be diligent with my nutrition and then I will have the belly I always dream of. My butt too could definately shrink some and I wouldn't cry! And I will post photos someday here on this thread!
I have to run on the treadmill now cause its just too cold and of course now the roads are snow packed and icy. I am so bummed! The miles just seem to fly by outside and on the treadmill I watch them crawl by. I am up to 2.75 miles this week and next week its the big 3 mile goal I have been working toward for 9 weeks!
HI Val,
Stick with it girlfriend, you've come way too far to quit now. Just for today. Just for this workout. Just for this meal. I too have been sliding a little bit. My problem is that I haven't been eating frequently enough. This is definately a hard time of year to stick with this, but WE CAN DO THIS! I know you are not pleased with your eating, but at least you realize how yucky you feel when you eat poorly. That in itself could be a motivator.
Great job keeping up with the running! I believe in you, YOU CAN DO THIS! You DESERVE to do this for yourself! Consider it pampering yourself. :0)
I am on my way to do the last LBWO of this challange. Wow. That is hard to believe. I am ready to change up and start another right away. I love how I feel when I am working hard and being disiplined in my eating. It makes me feel excited and happy. Thanks AJ for the pep talk. I need that. I have cleaned up my diet and going to take it one day at a time.
You are such an inspiration and have done so well this challange. Well done!
Hey Val,
How does it feel? If you aren't finished with your challenge yet, you are almost there! Wow! Great job!
Hi my dear ladies of the BFL,
I am popping in to congratulate you on your successes! Congratulations to you both!!!! You are awesome!!!!!!!!
I am still here. Still plugging away. I had dreams of transforming my body in these past 12 weeks and that just didn't happen. BUT, i have worked out more days in 3 months than I have been able to do in 3 years. I have made enough progress in my workouts that I enjoy them rather than being beat up by them, I found friends in both of you, and I havent given up. That is progress and I plan to continue. Hopefully,I will see you both here even thought the challenge is over. You girls ROCK.
Hey ladies! I am ready to rock another 12 weeks. I am looking forward to what I can accomplish this time around. I am up and ready to do my first upper body workout of this challange! I am on to different weight routine to shake things up. Just have to get throught this next week and a half and then the nutrition shouldn't be such a challange. Claire you going to keep going? So good to hear from you! I really enjoy the company on this journey. I am pleased that you also made progress. AJ how about you? Shall we do another????
Tomorrow is my last day of C1. YES! I am up for another. Need to get my goals down on paper and finish up some unfinished business from C1, but I'm gonna do it too. Claire, you up for it? Just consider the las ttime as stepping stones to this time. You can do it!
Hi girls,
YES! I am all IN. I have been sick since the weekend but plan to get back on track tomorrow with exercising. Are we all considering this this to be week one? It sounds as if we are all starting on slightly different days. I am really looking forward to this round.
Merry Christmas. Sweet Claire your ready?? Me too. I was a bit premature thinking I could start when I said I would. I am going to start after this Christmas week. It has been just crazy and I am even taking a break from exercise!! So my start date is December 31. Can you do this with me? How about you AJ?? Really need some hand holding to get through this!!
Hi BFLers, I would like to know how your second challenge is going? I have two weeks to go and i will be on my second challenge too. Happy New Year. This year I will try to do a 5:30-6:15 am workout and aim for adequate sleep. Not sure if I want to do it daily or every other day yet. I find planning for daily and not meeting that goal throws me off mentally. So I am not sure if I just want to get it done any point in the day or strickly mornings. Or even just get up in the morning and do some cardio just to clear my head. Who knows?
Keep it up ladies. Im inspired and proud of you.
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I just started on C2 on Monday. I'm having a bit of a "challenge" getting back on my nutritional path. LOL, but it's coming. (and I only took 10 or so days off!) Anyhow, I'm going to hit it hard this time. Who's in????? Come on!!!!!!
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I think I would need to know what 'smart' looks like!
I think, generally, that I am a rather 'smart' guy, but know that, with some ease, that I could name several examples of my own occasional nuttiness.
When I have been called a 'fool/idiot/crazy', it seems to either come from people that have their own way(s) of doing things, or my own self talk/observations. If you want to be called a fool more often, just be rather creative in the presence of other dolts that want you to sweep the floor 'their way'. I was once considered a fool because I used too much celery in my Turkey dressing, or used trail-mix!
I have known my share of very creative people that have no significant formal education. For them 'reality' has been a very effective teacher. Sadly, getting enough real world experience might depend upon not winning the Darwin Award too soon!
Elon Johnson: I suspect you are actually an intellectually superior person. I also am, and this is not to boast but to advance a positive and often assisting reality. I denied this in high school when I tested with an IQ of 172 by saying I was just lucky. Must have made good guesses, but the truth was obvious. I was three years younger than my peers.
In my old age now, I like to think those with a superior intellect can often assist those who lead with confusion and ignorance, and they should be vocal but not arrogant about their abilities. I have never looked at others with disdain but with the commonality and appreciation of life that all humans are offered.
I attempt to help but as a psychologist I can easily discern the reason few accept--often in anger. Allow me to offer a supreme example: When I lived in Mexico for a few years I sincerely appreciated the Mexican people as they have no difficulty accepting assistance that makes their lives easier. I was on my 57 foot ketch with my wife and a useless helper who knew too much to learn and nearly ran us into a fifty foot rock. I kicked his lying ass off and stayed a while in La Paz, the capital of Bahia California Sur. A great city near the end of the peninsula bordering the Sea of Cortez.
Anyway, at one dock I watched a person (American) attempting to start a small outboard engine. For a half hour he pulled and pulled on the starter rope with no results. Those tiny engines are two-strokes and ultra simplistic. Other than a main seal leak, plugged carburetor, or fouled plug they will usually fire off and very quickly. (Yes there can be other difficulties but I have never seen a problem that could not be easily fixed--even a bent rod!) I went over and politely mentioned that I was extremely familiar with the intricacies of the obstinate beast he was attempting to get running, and could I offer assistance? His reply... only the sternest scowl imaginable and back to cranking, ignoring me. I immediately knew the problem from the fuel smell permeating the air.
So, I left. later on, I saw him throw the small motor on the dock in disgust, kick it, and stomp off. I returned to the boat in his absence hoping to find someone aboard that was more amenable to assistance than he. Sure enough, a wife aboard had about had it with Joe Jerk. She allowed me to get it running, and of course it just needed full throttle and the choke off. I had it going in about six pulls and it ran reasonably well. It did need an adjustment to idle well, but that was all.
Then I instructed his wife on how to start it every time. Two strokes are easily started with the right combination of throttle and choke. There is seldom need for more than four pulls to see them light up (if in running condition with adequate compression, spark, fuel and no nasty leaks).
When he returned, the motor was back on the dink and I had opened the port to hear any conversation. "Who put the fooking motor back on" he growled. his wife answered as I had instructed, saying she did. That's when el moron challenged her with "OK, then you can start it too!" and she did on the first pull.
What happened next was unfortunately too typical of some men when their abilities are taken into question. He ripped it off the dink and threw it in the ocean asking his wife "Can you dive too?" Then he was off to get drunk I presume.
I kept a huge homemade treble hook on a strong 3/8 line just for such things and with the wife's permission recovered it in a few minutes (shallow harbor, clear water, easy). Dumped the salt water out and rinsed it with the freshwater hose. Popped the bottom off the carb and did the same. Restarted it and had her warm it up completely. She could see me in the boat and I directed the warm up timing needed to blow any salt residue out. It takes little more than that and I have done this many times over 18 years sailing.
Then I had her take it inside where it would not be visible to jerk Joe coming back from the local bar. I asked her to meet him when he arrived. As expected, I heard him say "Guess you caint dive, huh?" with sarcasm dripping from his ugly sneer. Her reply was amazing. "Oh I can dive, and I can start motors too" then she told him to wait and returned with the little motor. She said "Here, catch, and never make me do this again!" and threw the motor to him. Then she told him to put it on the dink and stand back. He did, in a haphazard way obviously quite bombed.
Then she stepped into the dink and turned the gas on , set the choke, and fired it again on the first pull. She blipped the throttle a few times and asked "That what you want or should I pitch it and you back in and sail away too?"
Bombed or not he got that message. The only real force in some men's lives--is their wives.
It was wonderful and a few days later she brought over some cookies and a small pie. Said I had improved their relationship because he always considered her useless, and now he knew better. She was truly happy.She could start the motor and he couldn't.
What a difference attitude makes.
Appreciate your mentality and offer it to assist, not as an overbearing display of superiority, and there will be those who accept and those who are Joe Jerks. Just accept that "Yuh caint hep em all" and get on with those you can.
Sounds like you're a good man, John. I do hope you don't mind a minor correction - I, too, lived in Mexico for a number of years, and I know exactly the area you mean, it was on the other side of the peninsula from my own home. But it isn't, "Bahia California Sur," it's Baja California del Sur (Lower California, of the South) - the peninsula is divided into two states, Baja California del Norte, where I lived, and Baja California del Sur, where you obviously resided.
Speaking of intellect, I tried getting out of being drafted into the Army by failing the I.Q. test - they calculated the odds of getting all of the questions wrong but one, was so remote, that I had to have known all of the correct answers in order to miss only one. I outsmarted myself.
Early on, in order to fit in, I learned to play dumb - by now, I've had so much practice, it's second nature.
RE: "they calculated the odds of getting all of the questions wrong but one, was so remote, that I had to have known all of the correct answers in order to miss only one." - and yes, I realize that that statement is mathematically incorrect, but considering the oxymoron, "Army Intelligence," it was a comparatively accurate guess.
Early on, in order to fit in, I learned to play dumb - by now, I've had so much practice, it's second nature.
Mmm hmmm, and did your wife teach you how to start 2-stroke motors? Smallll world, ain't it...
No, Papi, actually, she burned up two engines before she realized that cars need oil.
Great story! I think I have the same attitude, even if my IQ is less than 172.
(Um, well, substantially less.)
I saw magician David Blaine doing street magic. He is acting a little odd as he is setting up viewing angles and throws high speed distractions as he is swapping the coin, card or dollar bill. The conclusion of most of the people is that they have just witnessed supernatural powers. Some tricks were so simple I figured out what he was doing, the others were pretty much all revealed on the net. His selection of trickees is also very calculated. Some actually run away screaming voodoo.
The current zeitgeist seems to be one of anti-intellectualism. There is almost a celebration of the inane in the sense of the "Dumb and Dumber" or "Jackass" movie types. There are stupid people everywhere who seem to take pride not only in their own stupidity but also in sneering at intellectual contributions from the educated. I will stop now as I already sense a long rant starting :-). I don't suffer them.
The movie from about 2007, 'Idiotocracy', does come to mind as a rebuttal to 'Dump & Dumber'. The movie seems to make a case for intellectual decay, and the need to prevent it. Sadly, it is unclear if the audience gets the point..;p)


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But city officials ignored another protest Monday over the city's decision to destroy the mound atop a hill behind the Oxford Exchange shopping center.
Two American Indians on Monday presented Mayor Leon Smith with a petition containing more than 600 signatures of people opposed to the destruction of the site.
Tony Castaneda, of Anniston, and Sharon Jackson, of Fruithurst, who both claim to be American Indian elders, gave Smith the petition.
They followed up with a protest at City Hall at 7 p.m. where they collected more signatures.
Smith became agitated when the two arrived at City Hall with the petition Monday afternoon. They were observed by a reporter and a camerawoman from The Star. Smith demanded the journalists take their camera and leave. The journalists refused and Smith turned away. He took the petition and went back inside City Hall.
According to the Alabama Historical Commission's deputy state historic preservation officer, the mound at the center of the dispute is the largest of its kind in the state. The site is at least 1,500 years old and was constructed during what was known as the Woodland era. The city, through its Commercial Development Authority (CDA), has paid to have part of the hill taken down and used as fill for a Sam's Club under construction near the shopping center. The remainder of the hill is planned for more commercial businesses.
There is some dispute about the importance of the site. Harry Holstein, a professor of archeology and anthropology at Jacksonville State University has said it could contain human remains. Smith and city project manager Fred Denney say it was used to send smoke signals.
Preservation officials and the protesters have said that's unlikely.
Denney and the city would not give a reporter and photographer from The Star permission to climb to the top of the hill to take pictures, though the hill is owned by the CDA which is an arm of the city. A woman who answered the phone in Smith's office said no one could go on the hill for "safety and security reasons," but declined to specify what safety and security issues were present. She declined further comment.
Denney also said Monday he will stop talking about the hill, though he's spoken about it to a reporter before.
"I got no comment on that mountain," Denney said.
Glen Wilkins, a spokesman for Wal-Mart which owns the Sam's Club, said no one has contacted the company regarding the destruction of the mound for the Sam's Club. That conflicts with the accounts of protesters who said they have contacted the company.
A protester forwarded an e-mailed response he received from Wal-Mart about the mound to The Star Monday.
"It's because of people like you that Wal-Mart works hard to save people money so they can live better," the e-mail reads in part. "Because of your initiative, a copy of your message will be forwarded to our Real Estate Division for consideration."
Wilkins referred all questions about the mound to the city.
The protest Monday afternoon drew less of a crowd than a protest at the Oxford Exchange on June 26. More than 50 people showed up then, while more than a dozen were present Monday. Several people driving on U.S. 78 honked and waved in support, while a few stopped to sign the petition. Protesters say they got the bulk of their names at Oxford's Freedom Festival on Saturday.
The protesters dressed in colorful native garb and had signs that were equally as colorful, playing off Smith and Denney's claims that the mound was used for smoke signals.
One depicted a drawing of Smith smoking a cone-shaped "cigarette" under the caption: "Leon: What'cha Smoking?"
Another sign held by Teresa Reece of Anniston said, "Send Mayor Smith and Fred Denney a Smoke Signal: We Were Here First."
Castaneda said the lower turnout didn't disappoint him.
"I consider this a success, a test to see if we were stopped by the police," he said. "We had no problems. An unmarked police car honked his horn."
Castaneda said protesters would continue bringing attention to the site.
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There is no saying what manner of movies will be bred by the economic slump. If "Tokyo Sonata," directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, is anything to go by, we could be in for some unnatural spawnings, for this is a most peculiar hybrid. Our hero is Ryuhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa), although any heroic status is swiftly peeled off him, layer by layer. He is the director of administration at a health-care-equipment company, a post which we see him lose almost at once. What stays with you from that early scene, though, is not just Sasaki's passivity as his fate is decreed but the physical backdrop—the blinds of his office bright with sunshine yet quaking with the gusts of a coming storm. You don't sense a metaphor being labored here so much as an awkward, not quite comic misfit between human toilers and their environment. We see it again in the steep street up which Sasaki tramps home at the end of the day; at the junction where he meets his son Kenji (Kai Inowaki), returning from grade school; and in the train that rattles past the family dining area as they eat. Nothing, on the evidence so far, seems to sit happily in this world. The whole saga has the air of a desperate striving for peace.
The image of that dinner, framed from the side, cannot help but summon the ghost of Yasujiro Ozu, the serenest of Japanese filmmakers, many of whose dramas were played out—and sometimes climactically resolved—amid the quietude of domestic gatherings. Some of the tense conservatism that he noted in Japanese society lingers in "Tokyo Sonata," and I will not quickly forget the sight of Sasaki opening a beer at the table, drinking deep, giving a little groan of satisfaction, and finally announcing, "Let's eat." Then, and only then, is everybody else free to dig in to their food; it's as though the oafish quaffing of the patriarch were a way of saying grace. The flip side of that authority, of course, is that he cannot cope with its loss—cannot, for instance, bring himself to tell his wife, Megumi (Kyoko Koizumi), that he has been made redundant. This is less a matter of shame than of mental block; we feel that Sasaki cannot bear to tell himself, either, and so it is that he sets off in the morning, wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase, and joins the growing limbo of the jobless.
After lining up for a free handout of rice porridge from a food cart, he spies an old classmate, who, though in a hurry and apparently yelling at a colleague on a cell phone, joins him for a bowl of the same slop. With a kind of gentle slyness, Sasaki inquires, "Are you by any chance unemployed?" He knows the signs already. The friend is indeed out of work; that cell phone is programmed to ring five times an hour, with nobody on the other end. These two join the ranks of other modern men in deep denial: Tom Wilkinson in "The Full Monty" (1997), and the French executives in "Time Out" (2001) and "The Adversary" (2002), all of whom, while keeping up active fronts, sought to fill their vacant days. The last of these sprang from the true story of Jean-Claude Romand, who for years worked at the World Health Organization, or so his family believed; in the end, the lie overwhelmed him, and in 1993 he killed them all, including his parents, rather than unveil the truth—namely, that he had no connection with the W.H.O., and that much of his time was spent in a car park or in the woods.
The lesson of these stories, taken together, is that the pressure of unemployment can erupt in countless forms—in mayhem, anomie, or wistful farce. Kurosawa may be the first person to try to cram them all into a single picture. His story starts off in sullen decorum before veering off in directions that would have caused Ozu to turn pale and drop his tea set. Kenji begins piano lessons, although his increasingly furious father has forbidden them; the boy turns out to be not just a prodigy but a sounding board for his beautiful music teacher (Haruka Igawa), who talks to him about her divorce. Meanwhile, Kenji's elder brother, Takashi (Yu Koyanagi), cuts his hair and joins the United States military—one of a hundred and thirty-eight Japanese recruits, we are informed in TV news reports. (This is pure invention; no such troops exist.) He is sent to Iraq, from where he writes to his mother and reveals, if I understand correctly, that he is changing sides. Sasaki himself accepts a cleaning job in a mall; finding a wad of cash beside a toilet, he flees the scene and runs head-on into trouble. As for Megumi, she is kidnapped from the house at knifepoint: "I can't go home," she tells her wild-eyed abductor, before driving him to the seashore. Nightfall finds her lying in the surf.
Each of these plot developments is, to say the least, on the nutty side. En masse, they strike me as a deliberate rebuke: to the patient realism that prevailed in the first half of the movie, and perhaps to a penchant for resignation—for refusing to make waves—which Kurosawa perceives in the wider response to misfortune. An abrupt switch of mood, however, is never easy to bring off, and it tends to work best when the director unearths hidden connections—as Jonathan Demme did with "Something Wild," for example, the sadism of his second act answering to something heady and manic in the screwball comedy of the first. Kurosawa, by contrast, is more of a lunger, and "Tokyo Sonata" could be called "Anything Wild" in its quest for late-blooming chaos. When the movie screened at Cannes last year, "people found it hilarious in places that were wildly inappropriate," the director has said. To be fair, I have heard the same thing happen at the films of his namesake Akira—no relation, incidentally, though the echo can't hurt. If you were called Randy von Stroheim or Kevin Buñuel, wouldn't you go into pictures?


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He carried on the affair for years, frightening friends and aides who worried that his personal life could derail his bright political future.
His wife found out, and he promised to quit, but instead he piled lies upon more lies to keep the affair going.
The year: 1918.
The politician: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The same FDR who eventually navigated the Great Depression, beat Hitler's Nazis in World War II and is today considered by many to be one of our greatest-ever presidents despite having a mistress for three decades.
"How much did Americans know about FDR's affair? They knew nothing," says Tim Borstelmann, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln history professor who specializes in 20th century presidents.
Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy's alleged infidelity — an extramarital relationship and hundreds of calls on a state cellphone that led him to resign Saturday — is a variation on the same brand of dalliance that American politicians have practiced since they dotted the last i on the Declaration of Independence.
What's new — what's new in just the past four decades — is the birth of the Great American Sex Scandal, which ensnared the man who might have been Nebraska's next governor, countless governors and congressmen and, as you might remember, one president.
What has changed is virtually everything that surrounds a politician's cheating heart.
Let's start with Wilbur Mills, a powerful Arkansas congressman and the Godfather of the Great American Sex Scandal.
Sometime after midnight on Oct. 9, 1974, the Godfather found himself in a car with an Argentinian named Annabelle Battistella.
This would have been fine save for four complicating factors: 1) the Argentinian in question was a stripper whose stage name was Fanne Foxe; 2) the Godfather had been drinking heavily; 3) he got pulled over and 4) the stripper leapt from the car and jumped into the Tidal Basin, the 10-foot deep body of water next to the Jefferson Memorial, where police caught up with her. (Scandal trivia: Thomas Jefferson himself allegedly fathered several children with a slave he owned.)
Not coincidentally, 1974 is also when President Richard Nixon resigned. The press, burned by President Lyndon Baines Johnson's deceit on Vietnam and Nixon's Watergate lies, was in no mood to cover up the Godfather's 2 a.m. joyride.
Just as important, says historian Borstelmann, the public was in no mood to give the Godfather a pass.
"There had just been this huge shift in people's belief about the legitimacy of authority figures," says the UNL historian, the author of a recent book about the 1970s. "They had seen that the emperor was wearing no clothes."
Mills, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, eventually resigned. The Godfather begat Gary Hart, who begat Bob Barr, who begat John Edwards. Elliot Spitzer called a call girl. Mark Sanford said he was hiking down the Appalachian Trail. Anthony Weiner tweeted photos of his ... well, you know. And so forth, and so on, right up to Nebraska's own Lt. Gov. Sheehy.
(More scandal trivia: Public scandal isn't wholly new. Way back in 1884, Grover Cleveland was rumored to have fathered an illegitimate child, leading Republican hecklers to show up at his campaign rallies and chant, "Ma, Ma, Where's Pa?")
Today the epidemic is quite bipartisan and practically formulaic: Start with blaring headlines and a shocked public, often continue with a tearful press conference and photos of a wife standing uneasily by her man, and then usually finish with the sound of another once-promising political career hitting rock bottom.
UNL political scientist Dona-Gene Mitchell identified 25 separate scandals — 25! — during the 2006 election cycle. Some were financial in nature. Many were sexual. Virtually all had an impact on the election, she says.
Mitchell has done serious scandal research, including a 10-week study in which she introduced hypothetical politicians and their hypothetical scandals to real-life voters.
Sometimes she introduced the scandal early, before the voter had time to get to know the politician. This proved particularly damaging to the politician's career, she says, a fact that bodes badly for Sheehy, since most Nebraskans know little about him.
Sometimes she introduced the scandal late, near "election day."
And sometimes she introduced a cascading series of scandals in the time-honored political tradition. Drip. Drip. Downpour.
She found one constant: The majority of the study's subjects did care about the hypothetical scandal, and it did sway their hypothetical votes.
This leads Mitchell to an important point: No matter how much Americans say they don't care about a politician's private life, they almost invariably do.
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"It tends to stick in people's minds," the political scientist says. "They may forget political details, but if it's something juicy about a candidate's life, they remember that."
The majority of us still tie monogamy to trustworthiness, Borstelmann says. We tend to not trust a cheater.
In other words, he says, we are not the French. Our politicians do not get to be Fran�ois Mitterrand, whose mistress famously stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his wife — and his children by both women — at the iconic French president's funeral.
"If you are in a powerful position there and you don't have a mistress, you might be considered to have something wrong with you," the historian says.
The American media will most likely continue to pry, and the American public will most likely continue to care even when people find that coverage overblown and distasteful, both professors say.
But a politician ensnared in his own Great American Sex Scandal needn't give up all hope.
The public does eventually forget almost any scandal, Mitchell's research shows, suggesting that the other thing we love — the Great American Comeback Story — might be just an election cycle away.
And if all else fails, don't forget one William Jefferson Clinton.
"Welllll," says Mitchell when I mention Clinton's triumph as a promising sign for future political philanderers.
"He's definitely what we in political science would call an outlier."
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