Claudio
Perhaps if you respond:
"My new work contract requires charges as follows: $40 to assess your question, plus $100 per hour after the first quarter hour. If I help you without collecting I end up paying for the time myself! Do you have your credit card number handy or how will you pay?"
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1