"Simple," my husband thought. "We just turn it in and it is all done."

Last week we began getting large envelopes from attorneys. At first, I thought we had done something horrible or there were problems with my mother in laws estate. They were addressed to my husband so I didn't open them.

When he arrived home he popped open the first one. It was from Ken Nunn in Bloomington. It had five or six full color, full-size flyers, a full color brochure and page after page of legal hullabaloo.

They wanted to represent my husband by suing the person who hit his vehicle, had admitted fault and turned it over to his insurance company.

Day after day, we received other solicitations from lawyers. Some marketing person did a great job putting together all those color flyers and brochures. I bet they made a lot of money, not from Ken Nunn and his fellow lawyers, but from all the rest of us who end up paying for all these frivolous lawsuits.

Did I mention that if we did sue we would get maybe 35 percent of what they would collect in the suit. The law firm, of course, gets the other 65 percent.

This just reminded me of how low an opinion I have of many lawyers and their marketing methods.

Are our court systems not backed up enough already? People sit in jail while we tax payer's foot the bill as they wait to get into court.

It's no wonder all the jokes about lawyers abound. I know our legal friends send us jokes about themselves from time to time. They, at least, are necessary evils and fight the corporate battles.

I can't say the same about personal injury lawyers.

This brings me back to my favorite lawyer joke: If you are stranded on a desert island with Adolph Hitler, Atilla the Hun, and a lawyer, and you have a gun with only two bullets, what do you do?

Answer: Shoot the lawyer twice.