You just gotta love the internet.

I have a friend around the corner. She's a neighbor as well as a friend. She wrote this children's book. She just emailed me saying she couldn't open up an email that this publishing house had sent her.

It seems that she has written a book and desired to have it published. She does not have a computer. She has a little box on top of the tv and that's how she goes on the internet. She can't receive videos or attachments. So I help her out from time to time.

So she is asking me to print out this payment plan and I'm reading what this publishing house sent her.

They want her to pay $500 plus so they can publish her book.

I immediately went to ripoffreport.com to check out if there were any complaints against this company and BINGO, there were 14 people that were ripped off, this company took their money promising to publish their books but all they did was take their money.

I immediately phoned her and gave her the bad news. She then said 'oh really, I didn't know this about them". I told her about ripoffreport.com and to check on everybody and every thing before she sends anybody any money.

And I don't think if a publishing house wants to publish your books that you should pay them. They should send YOU an advance or something, right??

Then my other neighbor comes over to me and she needs a knee replacement. I ran into my house, looked up the Gender Knee Replacement, printed out 4 pages of info and just knocked on her door.

You should have seen her face.

She's getting her first computer soon. Her kids are buying her a laptop.

She said: "melody, I use a computer at work, but I don't know how to go on the internet, will you teach me??"

WILL I TEACH HER??? lol

Oh, she's 78 by the way.

I'm getting them old, but I'm getting them!!!! lol