Ok, I wasn't going to, but I'm going to chime in again.. Ya, I know, already??
I work a "full time" job.. during the "farming season" I average 70 hours a week.. This time of year, if we get 10 hours a week we're doing good, so I end up laid off.
I CAN collect unemployment, but I try not to if I can help it. I save some money during the working weeks, but still not enough to last all winter, but combined with unemployment I usually get by.
Sometimes (like in January, while paying for the Christmas season) money is tight, so I do "odd work" to make extra money.. be it working on a car in the barn, some construction work, whatever..
Usually I do it for friends and family, and I too don't want to charge them, but what good does it help me to trade say a brake job on their car/truck for say furnace work, should my furnace happen to go down? If my furnace was broken at that second, then it would be a win-win, but doing the work on the chance that it could happen?
I guess the point is, if you work a full-time job, and don't have to worry about making ends meet, then it's no big deal to do favors.. But, if it's charge to plow snow, fix a car, build a fence or starve.. guess what?? I'm charging..
I believe that was the point on the original story, and on this story.. No one wants to starve, and we're all just doing what it takes to make ends meet in troubled times, and if you're a good friend/neighbor, and I say I'm sorry but I got to charge you XX because I'm just trying to survive and cover my fuel and wear and tear, then they should understand and say ok, fair enough.. BUT on the flipside, when the friend/neighbor says it back, you can't whine or cry about it.
It sounded to me, from the original story, that Dave had plowed the neighbor's snow in the past for nothing, and didn't receive any neighborly favor back, so I think charging is a must.
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