>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Did she do this?
>> The kids on the left,
yes, but not on the right.
>> There's a little boy,
pale skin,
on a surfboard that she did.
It's about this high in real
life, and then a larger girl
with a crab hanging off her.
>> Judge Judy: I still want
to know what this is.
>> That is the boy
that's to the right of it
that's in the back.
Here he is.
>> Judge Judy: Who did this?
>> She did that.
>> Judge Judy: You did this?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy:
Somebody else did this?
>> Not all of it.
>> Yes.
>> Just...
>> Judge Judy: I could...
Well, it's clearly not
the same artist
who did these two things.
>> Right, just the...
>> Judge Judy:
It's clearly not the same artist
that did these two things,
and I am not a maven on art.
>> Yeah, as far as the mermaids,
she did those.
I did the bird,
did some smoothing
out of the skin
and did the rock in the water.
>> Judge Judy: And this.
And this you did?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy:
Well, that looks like the other.
That looks about right.
Okay, now,
you didn't like her work.
You still have to pay her $225.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy:
Do you understand?
>> Yes, ma'am.
However, it wasn't about not
liking her work.
It was about...
I brought the other artist in
because of how long it took
to try to get it together.
>> Judge Judy: Right.
If you had a contract,
which I assume you do not...
>> No, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: ...that said,
"Time is of the essence.
You can't take six months
and disrupt my business
by painting for six months,"
we're in a different ballpark.
We're in a different ballpark.
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy: You may have said
to her at some point, "Listen,
this isn't going fast enough,"
and I can understand...
>> When Ginger and I first
talked about it,
though, first of all,
she had the amount wrong.
We agreed to 325.
I gave her a deposit of 125
for the supplies,
and I asked her how long
she thought
it was going to take,
and she said, "It should be done
by the end of summer,"
which I took around Labor Day.
I didn't put a date on it.
Then, in November is when
I started saying,
"Can we please get a deadline?"
>> Judge Judy: Listen, I got it.
You still have to pay her.
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, so they say
that the agreed-upon price
was 325...
>> Yeah, I may have had
that wrong, Your Honor, yes.
>> Judge Judy: ...and that they
gave you not 150
but 125 towards the supplies.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Which means
that they owe you $200.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Fine.
>> $225.
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: Well,
if the agreed-upon price
was 325...
>> No, 350.
>> No, it was 325, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Well, first you
wrote here 375.
>> Right, I did have
that wrong...
>> Judge Judy: Okay, all right.
>> ...but I have a...
>> Judge Judy:
They owe you 200...
>> ...text message
that shows...
>> Judge Judy:
They owe you $200.
Did you subsequently paint
over the wall?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: You have
a photograph of that?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy:
I'd like to take a look at it.
>> Your Honor, they painted over
the wall
after I took a warrant in debt
for the money they owe me.
>> Judge Judy: What difference
does it make?
Listen...
>> It was retaliation because
they left it up from...
I finished it at
the very beginning of January,
and they left it up until April.
So, when they got the warrant
in debt, they decided
in retaliation to paint over,
over 200 hours of work.
>> Judge Judy: Oh, well,
they didn't like it,
and they painted it over.
They still have to pay you $200.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, you have
a ridiculous counterclaim.
Your ridiculous counterclaim,
you say that she ate yogurt
when she was there.
[ Laughter ]
She asked employees
to do errands for her,
and she harassed you.
>> Your Honor, I have got a 911
tape of the last day
that she was working
in the store that she ran over
to one of our adjacent store
neighbors
and called 911 on us because
she would not return our key.
She held our key hostage.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Did you get your key back?
>> Well, finally, after...
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy:
You got your key back.
You had an altercation
on that day.
It was about the artwork.
Whatever it is, I don't care.
Your countersuit is ridiculous.
You owe her $200.
Judgment for the plaintiff.
We're done.
Thank you.
>> Byrd: Parties are excused.
You may step out.
>> Because it was taking long
and she made it
take longer because she...
>> I'm glad the nightmare
is over with.
>> ...wasn't cooperative.
She just had her own agenda, and
she did what she wanted to do.
>> She would come in.
She'd paint one thing.
We'd come in the next,
and it was completely different.
>> She didn't do what I needed
her to do to help finish it.
>> Interrupt the staff,
asking the staff's opinion.
>> They did give me compliments,
so there was a large portion
of it, if not most of it,
that they did,
they were satisfied with.
>> It was just a nightmare.
>> To have people that are not
difficult and have somebody
that's not assaulting me
and cussing at me in the store.
>> I was standing at the door,
and she said, "Well,
I'm going to go get my stuff."
>> Yes, he did.
>> And she ran.
I said, "You're not going in,"
and she just...
That was it.
>> He pushed me
and yelled at me.
>> This has been a nightmare,
sir, a nightmare,
and I promise you, a nightmare.
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