Posted by JD Seller on May 27, 2014 at 20:33:06 from (208.126.198.123):
There is a fellow that lives about 2 miles from me that owns a small acreage and the buildings out of a larger farm. I used to rent the farm ground around him. I stored equipment in this fellow's sheds/barn and he got hay in trade for the storage.
About a year ago he came over and demanded that I PAY him storage for the use of his sheds/barns. This is after he feed up over twenty rolls of hay to his horses and goats, each year. Plus I always mowed his pasture/rock patch several times each year.
He wanted $200 a month rent plus the hay. I told him to go take a hike. I handed him $200 and moved all the equipment the next day. So we did not part friends. LOL
Last fall I heard he had terminal cancer. That is really too bad for him. He is in his early forties with some younger kids.
Never said anything to him but did make sure his drive was kept clean of snow all winter. He would just turn away and look elsewhere when I cleared the snow. His wife would wave.
Now the latest turn. He has a cheap White brand lawn mower. It had quit cranking on him several years ago. It has a B&S engine and the plastic starter gear was bad. $10 repair part. He parked the White and bought a new compact utility tractor. With him being sick he could not make his payments on the new tractor.
His wife calls me and asked me if I would come and pick the White up an fix it for her. So she could mow their yard. I went and picked it up. All it needed was the starter gear and a good battery. I serviced the mower and it actually ran/mowed pretty good. The right rear tire was flat. It just was leaking around the bead, tubeless tire. So I cleaned the bead up and used bead sealer on the tire and it held air fine.
I made sure that the wife would be home and took the mower back an had her mow some to make sure all was working right. She got along fine. She wanted to know what the bill was. I told her zero. I only had some time and a few dollar part in the deal. No big deal.
A few weeks later the fellow called me and started cussing me about doing such a poor repair job on HIS mower. I finally got him settled down enough to find out one of the rear tires was flat. So I went over an he did indeed have a flat rear tire. The LEFT rear tire. LOL I pointed that fact out to him. He starts cussing me again. I finally tell him that I was done with him and the mower an came home. End of story to me.
Fast forward to this month end. I get a bill from a local tire shop for a service call and tire repair. I asked all the boys/relatives if they had a tire repaired. None of them had.
I called the tire shop and find out the fellow with the White LAWN mower called them for a service call. He told them he had a White TRACTOR with a flat rear tire. He told them I had just worked on the tractor and did not have the time to repair the tire. He told them I would pay them for the repair.
So the tire shop sends out a full service truck expecting a FARM tractor tire repair. They get out there and find a LAWN mower tire repair. They fix it. Just a patch over a nail hole.
They sent me the bill. I went in this morning and settled the issue with the tire shop.
I can't believe that fellow wanted me to fix/pay for his lawn mower tire repair. On a mower repair that I charged ZERO on. LOL
I hope the fellow is just not of sound mind with all of his heath issues. His wife is a pretty nice lady. I really feel sorry for her and the three boys.
How did I settle the issue with the tire shop?? The owner and I go way back. I explained what was going on to him. So we figured out what his out of pocket costs where: labor, truck wear an tear and fuel. We kind of passed the hat around to the fellows loafing around and we all chipped in a little. Deal done. The wife has enough problems without this little thing.
I still would like to know what the tire shop guy REALLY thought when he pulled up with a full service truck for a lawn mower tire. LOL
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