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What wonderful world Walter lives in. Three million for something nobody reads!

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Just like our world. ;-)

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🤣 I write boring stuff all the time. Where is my three million?

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I’m trying to imagine what a movie or TV show based on a TOS would be like. Great story!

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I'm trying to imagine what Terms of Service would be like if Stephen King wrote them.

I'm glad you enjoyed the story!

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I love this! My professional career includes writing P&Ps. Glad his financial dreams will come true. Fun story, thanks Bill.

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Thank you, Jenise. Writing is fun no matter what the subject, I think.

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Sadly it was the lighting that brought his fantasies to come alive only in his mind.

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He needed to escape. I hope it worked for him.

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Oh man, if only. This reminds me of my days as a tech writer. I got a couple easter eggs in there for sure. Don't think I could go back to it though, even for 3 million dollars :-D

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I get that about tech writing. It's always fun to see easter eggs. I'm glad you were able to insert some.

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The final part of this story is every copywriter's dream. Great story!

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Thanks, John! I'm glad you liked Terms of Service. I

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What a great story!

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Thank you, Christina! Somebody's got to write those amazing TOS.

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Loved the twist -- and that meal! I think lightning would strike the window if I made tiramisu also. 😳

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Thanks, Tara. I had fun writing Terms of Service and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Also, tiramisu is one of my favorites, though I'm a buyer not a maker.

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Nice story! It's interesting how Walter and Eva are supposedly rich, but live in a house that doesn't seem to match that (e.g. narrow hallway). The twist at the end is wonderful.

On a side note, I just started writing a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy too. What a coincidence it is to see this!

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Thank you. I'm glad you like Terms of Service.

New York apartments are weird spaces. I grew up in a post-WWII building in Manhattan that had three full bathrooms, one in each bedroom, but existed under NY's rent control, so the rent was incredibly low. One room was a maid's room, with a swinging door to the kitchen -- that was my bedroom. Strange spaces from another era.

That is a funny coincidence about your writing a terms of service and privacy policy!

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"I’m like a fox raised indoors that can’t ever be returned to the wild because the fox doesn’t know how to hunt.” I know the feeling. Thank all the gods, I escaped that job! Clever story, Bill.

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Thank you, Sharron. I'm glad you liked Terms of Service.

I want to hear about that job you escaped. That's a great state of being: to get away from a place you'd rather not be.

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Well, it was not so much a job. More like ... a marriage TOS. I may turn THAT tale into a story for Substack. There is a story everywhere, right Bill?

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There's a story everywhere, as long as you remember to write the idea down when it pops into your head. ;-)

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Great metaphors here. The imagination being chopped by the woodchipper was the best.

My own imagination seems to have attended the woodchopper's ball....

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Thanks, David. Woodchippers actually scare me.

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Why wouldn't they? They're very hazardous things that need to be used with caution.

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