Posted by Bryce Frazier on March 10, 2014 at 13:53:11 from (67.142.182.20):
My gosh, I am amazed nearly every day by the people that live among me in this world.... I have a road that I plow snow off of nearby. It is one lane 50 feet above the lake, and it is cliff going up on the right and cliff going down to the lake on the left side. It is about a mile long, not to mention two huge hills I have to go up!
The guy that was plowing it for them retired, so I took over. I called around, and the three local people that are in the area and do snow plowing wanted $75-$100 to do the job, I thought about it for a little while, and decided to charge her $50. I think that is MORE than reasonable!!
One of the people that lives on this road was doing a contracting project, and I was keeping the road plowed for this guy. So, he calls me last week and asked me to come and plow, I went down there plowed the road (it needed it) and I was working my way down the road towards his house. I have to go PAST this ladys house to get to his, so she came out. We talked for a minute, and I continued on my way. The new owner of the house offered to pay for the road to be completely plowed out TWICE before, so I plowed everyone out. Now I am down here for the third time, and she tells me she doesn't want to be plowed, well, too bad! The road is literally her drive way, so I HAVE to plow around her house in order to open the road, so after some debating she offered to pay for the far half of the road, not sure why!!! So here is the bill I made:
I gave this lady a bill of $50, $35 for plowing and $15 for dog sitting.
I told the owner not to worry about it because he has treated me REALLY well so far, so i figure that the $35 from this lady would cover expenses, while I maintained high customer relations with the new owner.
Sound fair to you? I think so!
So I called the lady today to ask here where my check is, it has been 8 days. She starts in telling me that she doesn't think that her bill should be $35 because she only wanted to pay for part of the road, I replied with the rather smart retort of "well that's only HALF the bill!!"
So long story short, I spent 30 min of my day on the phone haggling over a bill with this lady. She kept offering me $25 for the road, and I finally said don't worry about, but I ain't ever coming down again!!!
She kind of apologized and is bringing a check for $50 to me now, did I do the right thing to stand my ground and get up set, or!?!?!?! Bryce
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