For reasons that I’ll never understand and probably will never be able to explain if I did understand them, there are an awful number of imposters and con artists who pass through our neighborhood.  Last year, there was this supposed golf expert who was giving away a free set of golf lessons, claiming that then anyone would want to buy the next set.   Of course there wasn’t a next set or even a first set.  He basically took your money and ran.  Then there was the guy who claimed to be an orthodontist.  He even set up an office in one of the medical plazas and had a whole list of clients he saw for about a year and a half.  He even put braces on people and looked over their monthly checkups and passed out retainers, though where he got them I have no idea.  One day, his office suddenly didn’t open and no one could find him anywhere in town.  The local paper talked with his landlord and his lease had ended about a month ago and he’d claimed to be moving into a better part of town, but had just vanished.  The paper did some more digging and eventually found out that not only was this guy not a orthodontist, but he had no medical training at all.  I’m only glad I never went to him to get braces.  Almost everyone that did had to get their braces put on by a real orthodontist and wore them another two years.