[And he doesn't even give Schuldig a chance to say if that's fine or not. We don't need to wait for approval in Puck-land.]
"A man once visited a horse dealer, wanting to buy a horse from him. It was agreed upon that he would pay half the price for the horse right away, and that he'd owe the dealer the rest. One month passed, and two, and three, and the man didn't come to pay his due, so the horse dealer went to his house and demanded his money. 'I'll admit I owe you the sum', said the man, 'but I'm not going pay you.' Enraged, the dealer took it to court, but when asked to defend himself, the man who had bought the horse simply said: 'The deal was that I pay him half the sum and then owe him the rest. Were I to give him the other half of the money, that would be going against my word, and I certainly don't want to do that.'
To this date, he still hasn't had to pay the full price for the horse."