I’d pay him the money and add $10 for the inconvenience.

You lost the high road with the “FU”. Take it back by giving him a tip.

....and everyone goes forward with their life just a little bit happier.

I think you should cook him dinner and mow his lawn.

I've never, never, ever had car problems that delayed me.

However, I think if I had an unreliable car that caused me grief, I'd be pretty embarrassed.

I would never hire someone I did not know or who was not recommended by someone I trusted.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
I've never, never, ever had car problems that delayed me.

However, I think if I had an unreliable car that caused me grief, I'd be pretty embarrassed.

Never, ever? Wow, I'm impressed.

Btw, this guy makes a living mowing lawns...I doubt he has a sweet ass ultra reliable car like yours...

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:

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Originally posted by Russ59:
I've never, never, ever had car problems that delayed me.

However, I think if I had an unreliable car that caused me grief, I'd be pretty embarrassed.

Never, ever? Wow, I'm impressed.

Btw, this guy makes a living mowing lawns...I doubt he has a sweet ass ultra reliable car like yours...

It's not so much that he makes a living mowing lawns. It's that he does it for $20.

Link to original video: https://youtu.be/RwEIjbfOHD0

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Originally posted by Russ59:
I've never, never, ever had car problems that delayed me.

However, I think if I had an unreliable car that caused me grief, I'd be pretty embarrassed.

More than once in my life, I have walked out in the morning, stuck the key in the car, and was rewarded with nothing but a "click." Batteries die, sometimes with no warning.

I have also jumped in an airplane to start a trip and noticed something that I did not like, so departure was delayed while I had a maintenance guy check the discrepancy. Better to delay departure than to be in the air, thinking "I should have had that checked."

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wife , in all her morning glory, replied to his text...FU...

Yeah to me the problem started here.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
You should also talk to [your] wife about her temper

Please let us know how that goes.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
OP said, in his original post, that he was paying the twenty bucks.

Yes, sort of, but he also said this:

"I don't feel compelled to pay him. My verbal contract with him was for noon yesterday."

His post appears to be asking for feedback, so several of us gave it.



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Your wife was out of line and your post was juvenile high school drama nonsense. Pay the man, attach a note to the money that your sorry your wife is an asshole. Move on.

I’m reading a great book at the moment and one point the author makes is that you never know who you are dealing with. While it might be normal for you or your wife to argue and cuss strangers, and it normally works out fine for you, you’ll do that one day to the wrong person and end up bleeding in a ditch with a knife sticking out of your gut. And you’ll think to yourself was it really worth it? Was the $20 arguement worth a trip to a hospital to get bandaged up?

Are there any kids around looking to make $20 to mow lawns or they don't do that anymore?

I'll pay the $20 to be done with it. Life's too short and $20 isn't worth the hassle.

I would be more than perturbed as well (I loathe tardiness as it seems to be the norm now rather than the exception).

However, I do agree the FU wasnt wise. I would have contacted him that evening and said not to worry about mowing. Cutting wet grass? Yea not good. I wouldn't hire him again.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JALLEN:


Contractors are so unreliable, especially on scheduling,


I will fix this for you !


Home owners are so unreliable, especially in Paying.

32 years being a contractor and I have heard a million excuses why they wont pay. so it goes both ways.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
Are there any kids around looking to make $20 to mow lawns or they don't do that anymore?

You can’t get a kid to put down his cell phone and walk outside for $20 around here.

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Originally posted by arfmel:

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Originally posted by Edmond:
Are there any kids around looking to make $20 to mow lawns or they don't do that anymore?

You can’t get a kid to put down his cell phone and walk outside for $20 around here.

I have never, in the 26 years we've been in our home, ever seen kids around here looking for lawn jobs.

I have twice had really young kids ask if they could shovel our snow. One time it was really small kids and a significant snowfall. There was no way they could've handled it. The other time it was a snowfall so light it wasn't worth bothering with.

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Originally posted by XLT:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by JALLEN:


Contractors are so unreliable, especially on scheduling,


I will fix this for you !


Home owners are so unreliable, especially in Paying.

32 years being a contractor and I have heard a million excuses why they wont pay. so it goes both ways.

You are the exception. It was pulling teeth to even get someone to come out and give us a quote. and we had a good chunk of work, about $15k worth with more depending on how they performed on the first part.

Finally after three months of even trying to get someone to show up, he started a month late, and had every excuse there was. Then he took longer than expected, and didn't do a great job.

We decided to hold off on any more work because it was such a pain.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
My wife and I firmly believed he did it mainly because he enjoyed cutting lawns

^^^ I read that in a Forest Gump accent.

Seriously, all this over $20? I'd be worried the guy would use the $20 to buy an agricultural strength bottle of glyphosate, mix it up in a big-ass sprayer, and write you a message in your lawn the next night.

On the upside, it would solve your problem of finding someone to mow your lawn.