Bah, spoken like someone who truly doesn't see it from my point of view. Few key facts: I didn't ask for free pkmn, I offered to give'm events in exchange for them, when I suspected that he wasn't gonna give me the pkmn is when he threw up the 'proof excuse', and in all reality, all stores accept payment...you'd never go to a subway expecting to pay for a meal, and have the owner say 'You can have your meal, but first I want proof that you're going to eat it, your word not being an excuse'. Either way, problem is semi-solved...will be fully solved when your friend doesn't bring it up every time I forget to blow my nose...