...and a young woman on a cell in her car apologized for a gasp, saying, "I'm sorry but that bast**d almost ran into me."

She said that she had just now been to the Tiffin Art Guild Art Gallery where the volunteer recommended that she call me. Her call to me was a request to paint her daughter's name on two canvases.

"I don't usually do that kind of painting," I said, "but I could probably squeeze it into my schedule next week or two."

"Good," she said. "I would be willing to pay for it."

"Of course," I replied. "I don't work for free. Do you want an estimate? I'll need the size of the canvases and..."

"All I can pay is twenty dollars," she said.

"I'll leave some calls with the members," I said. "Maybe someone would be willing to do it for that little."

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True.

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That's almost as much as Vincent Van Gogh got for the only painting he ever sold ($26.)

It wouldn't even pay for the paint these days.