I know, but please make sure everyone knows that your experience is NOT
optimal, nor even typical.

I think "everybody" knows by now.

You were not intentionally fleeced -- but you *were* fleeced. You spent
at least 100% more than average, and 150% more than necessary. I
don't know a better definition of "fleeced" than that.

Fleecing, by definition, is intentional. He had good reasons to spemd
more than necessary. In fact, under his circumstances, it could be
argued that it =was= necessary to spend that much.

I did it. Anyone can do it. It just takes commitment.

He did it too. You spent (morning) time, he spent money. Who's to say
for another which is more valuable?

We still
have to get a medical, I think mine was 100.
You don't get an annual check up? Every other year?

How smart is it to get your annual checkup from your AME?

Remember, he didn't say it =had= to cost him that much. He said it
=did= cost him that much. That was the (total) amount he chose to spend.

When I got my license I didn't have to get up at 0-dark-thirty. You
did. There's more to it than money.

Jose
--
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