A_A,
 I guess I'm nostalgic for a simpler time, or maybe a time when your WORD was your bond and right and wrong weren't blurred by shades of grey. I know some still feel this way, but not enough too stem the tide.

 My Dad taught me that a mans word was bond, just about the most precious personal item you had. He did business for years after he retired, he like too repair lawn mowers and other small engine items. He charged them 1/3 to 1/2 what  shop would of, and did way more for the money.
 Never had anyone sign a work order, he gave them an estimate, they said yes or no, and he did the job for that, even if he lost money on it.
 All his customers were old school crusty SOB, like Dad. He never had ANY problems until the younger guys (  Boomer age), came around.
THEY had a problem with everything and wanted warranties on repairs to old equipment that most of the shops wouldn't even touch :-?
 After awhile, DAD just said the hell with it, and really retired! Same summer a big storm dropped a big old oak tree in his yard. We cut it up into logs and stacked it near road with a sign " FREE FIREWOOD-TAKE WITH.  Later that week some Boomer age yuppie stopped and asked about the FREE wood? Dad said the sign said it all?
The guy had the NERVE too ask my 75 year Dad who walked with a cane, if he would SPLIT the wood, so he could take it for FREE :(
 Dad ran him out of the yard, and made me come over and haul all the wood too a friends house who burned it over the winter.
 Yup, things have changed, and not always for the better!