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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Agreed. If you wanted to cancel, you should have texted him after he was late on the day of planned service. You should also talk to her wife about her temper, unless she was actually offering to pay for the services in another manner of trade. | |||
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| Low Profile Member |
the guy's car broke down. I suppose that is his excuse. What's your wifes? To be honest your tone doesn't sound much better. Sounds like you would all be better off without any future dealings. | |||
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Ammoholic |
Can you send a lawn guy to my house to aerate? I'll gladly pay $60. Cost me $30+ to rent machine, plus gas money to a buddy for use of his truck. Then the aerator beats the shit out of you. OP, you guys really need to chill. No need for FU or cursing. You owe him $20 plus an apology. He also owes you an apology as well, but you guys were the bigger offender here. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Wish I could get my little yard mowed for $20. Even a crappy job of it. Costs $65 for a crappy job here and I’m glad to get it that cheap. +1 on your wife’s temper. My bride has been the same way since menopause. I’ve told her repeatedly that some day she’s gonna put me in a tight spot by mouthing off to guys half my age. I think she’s trying to get me pummeled. | |||
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| I kneel for my God, and I stand for my flag |
Start a GoFundMe to recoup your loss. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
All you need to be a “contractor” these days is an inexhaustible supply of excuses. Your mistake was assuming he would perform as and when promised. That rarely happens. We had some maintenance work done to the house this spring. I wish I had written down all the excuses we heard why the guy who had promised to show up on a certain day and hour didn’t. A week’s worth of chores was spread out over 6 weeks or more. The only blessings were it was finally done, and my wife followed my advice to make sure he wasn’t paid in advance, no matter what. Contractors are so unreliable, especially on scheduling, we have a term from her native France, “normalement.” “We’ll start on Tuesday, {normalement.”} Hardly ever happens. In reality, you would hate to live like this, as a contractor trying to juggle jobs, material from HD, call backs, new bids, etc. It is a brutal life, always on the margin, always uncertain, disaster lurking in every step. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
OP said, in his original post, that he was paying the twenty bucks. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| אַרְיֵה |
 הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Member |
Yeah, that's why I hired it. The rental was almost as much. We actually had two companies willing to do it for $40 but they needed an extra week for scheduling. Yard is about .2 acre and only needs aeration on about half of that. It was actually kind of funny because I forgot to mark about 3-4 sprinkler heads and he missed all of them, lol. So at least that was a positive. | |||
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I'm with others. A "Andrew Jackson" isn't worth the time you are going to spend with the harassment and debate. My time is frankly worth more than that. Chalk it up to don't hire they guy again. There is a reason he's mowing lawns for $20. Train how you intend to Fight Remember - Training is not sparring. Sparring is not fighting. Fighting is not combat. | |||
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is circumspective |
I think the real story here is that you got anyone to come to your house, at any time, to do anything, for twenty dollars. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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thin skin can't win |
Only one person escalated this beyond where it had to be. I'd be handing the man his $20, apologize for my wife being bitchy and ask if he's ok with you calling him again in the future if needed. Whether you plan to or not. He knows where you live.  You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Seriously, what the fuck is this? Are you saying you're willing to kill a man because he wants the 20 bucks that he is owed? And you're paying him only because you don't like prison sex or being on the news? You or your wife saw him and didn't clear things up. Let him finish mowing the lawn. Makes him come back a second time just for $20. And, now, you're going to spend time to find out things about him??? All this for $20??? You said yourself the guy was apologetic in the end. I don't get it. I've walked away from such situations with the attitude that the money wasn't going to make the other guy rich nor was it going to make me poor. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| Member |
OP, if you took the day off to do some light yard work why then could you not have just mowed the lawn yourself? Why manufacture all the drama? Not sure what the point of the original post was supposed to be, but it seems to show you and your wife in a less than desirable light. If you have time to post shit in this thread, and stalk your lawn mowing guy, why couldn't you find time to mow the lawn yourself? How sure are you about that CNN thing? | |||
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Im thinking the same thing! Lol ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
That was my first thought. Anyway... Pay him and be done with it. As the others said: It's not worth the heartburn. We used to have A Guy mowed our 20,000-25,000 sq. ft. for, believe it or not, $25/mow. And if it'd gotten too high, so his cut was too rough, he'd go back over it, cross-ways, again! One time I think even that didn't do it, so he put the bags on, collected it, and bagged it. My wife and I firmly believed he did it mainly because he enjoyed cutting lawns  Then he was out-of-service for back surgery and referred us to a young kid to take over for him. The young kid did ok for a while. But, as the season progressed, became more-and-more irregular and sloppier-and-sloppier. We were going to fire him for the next season, anyway--if for no other reason than I was retiring soon, but I guess he figured that out because he never came back. I'm retired, now, and have plenty of time, so we don't need a lawn service any more. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Pay him. move on. Not worth it. Legally, he mowed it. I know he didn't do it timely, but usually, the law will not penalize lateness in performance with forfeiture, unless there is an agreement that makes it crystal clear that the time of performance is essential. A "time is of the essence" clause, in other words. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Never miss an opportunity to be Batman!  |
I don't know: a bag of lime, a shovel, a roll of contractor grade plastic, and the gas to drive out to the middle of nowhere would be worth more than $40. It doesn't leave the hitman (or person) much money.....oh......you mean just give him money to go away.....yeah that works too. | |||
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Mr. Waffles |
All I can say is....I can't even believe this was posted. ***************************************************** A shepherd must tend his flock....and at times fight off the wolves | |||
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