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Do you have needy neighbors?
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:49 pm
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:49 pm
I think I am the go to guy in my neighborhood and it annoys me but I'm too nice to express it.
One neighbor borrows tools all the time and sometimes borrows parts, and I got him his current and highest paying job (at my competitor who I am friendly with). He comes over yesterday to borrow a special tool and returned it all dirty and covered in grease.
Another neighbor is an old Hispanic man who no one can understand, he does a "zombie knock" where instead of knocking, he pushes hard against the door like he is trying to break in causing me to get up and run downstairs thinking I'm being broken into, only for him to ask to borrow $5 and a ride to get cigarettes. He is nearly 90 years old and has had strokes and heart attacks so I always feel bad for him, but yesterday I said no and he got upset.
Then my other neighbor calls yesterday says she had her thermostat go out in her car. (according to boyfriend) So I change that last night in the dark while it's hot as hell and just accept $20 for doing it. Today it turns out it's the water pump and not the thermostat and she just calls and said "I left it in your driveway with the hood popped and the keys can you change it and I'll pay you back?" That's a complicated job, it's a timing belt driven water pump. So I moved it back into her driveway. flushed the radiator and said "I can't do it" and now she is giving me a sob story about her patients she can't get to. So I text her sons and ask them to send over a mechanic. (I'm not a mechanic)
First response, "You don't know how to change a water pump?"
I mean yes, of course I do, I don't want to. I want to enjoy my lazy Friday because I have a ton to do tomorrow and only four hours of work today.
I want to waste my day not doing shite until I start working at 2p.
I don't want to get that dirty. I charge my customers $59.99 just to diagnose a problem, hell no I don't want to change a water pump for near that. A mechanic would charge $700.
I know just venting, but I can't vent anywhere else. Moving next year and I definitely am not going to be the ed Flanders of the new neighborhood.
Am I being a pushover, or should I help those in need?
One neighbor borrows tools all the time and sometimes borrows parts, and I got him his current and highest paying job (at my competitor who I am friendly with). He comes over yesterday to borrow a special tool and returned it all dirty and covered in grease.
Another neighbor is an old Hispanic man who no one can understand, he does a "zombie knock" where instead of knocking, he pushes hard against the door like he is trying to break in causing me to get up and run downstairs thinking I'm being broken into, only for him to ask to borrow $5 and a ride to get cigarettes. He is nearly 90 years old and has had strokes and heart attacks so I always feel bad for him, but yesterday I said no and he got upset.
Then my other neighbor calls yesterday says she had her thermostat go out in her car. (according to boyfriend) So I change that last night in the dark while it's hot as hell and just accept $20 for doing it. Today it turns out it's the water pump and not the thermostat and she just calls and said "I left it in your driveway with the hood popped and the keys can you change it and I'll pay you back?" That's a complicated job, it's a timing belt driven water pump. So I moved it back into her driveway. flushed the radiator and said "I can't do it" and now she is giving me a sob story about her patients she can't get to. So I text her sons and ask them to send over a mechanic. (I'm not a mechanic)
First response, "You don't know how to change a water pump?"
I mean yes, of course I do, I don't want to. I want to enjoy my lazy Friday because I have a ton to do tomorrow and only four hours of work today.
I want to waste my day not doing shite until I start working at 2p.
I don't want to get that dirty. I charge my customers $59.99 just to diagnose a problem, hell no I don't want to change a water pump for near that. A mechanic would charge $700.
I know just venting, but I can't vent anywhere else. Moving next year and I definitely am not going to be the ed Flanders of the new neighborhood.
Am I being a pushover, or should I help those in need?
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Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:50 pm to Napoleon
quote:
Do you have needy neighbors
Only the wives
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:51 pm to Napoleon
don't know my neighbors
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:51 pm to Napoleon
I wish you were my neighbor
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:52 pm to Napoleon
only my wife
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:52 pm to Napoleon
It's nice to help people until they start to take advantage. I would be mega pissed if someone left their car in my driveway for me to fix.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:54 pm to Napoleon
It sounds like your neighborhood sucks.. good call on moving
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:54 pm to Napoleon
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First response, "You don't know how to change a water pump?"
Wow.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:55 pm to Napoleon
You're a pushover. I need someone like you next door to me.
It's nice to give someone a hand when you can, but you're being taken advantage of, clearly. Just say "no".
Takes some nerve to put your car in someone else's driveway and tell them it's there for that person to fix. Geez...
It's nice to give someone a hand when you can, but you're being taken advantage of, clearly. Just say "no".
Takes some nerve to put your car in someone else's driveway and tell them it's there for that person to fix. Geez...
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:56 pm to Napoleon
I don't know my neighbors too well yet... haven't lived their long. Most of them seem pretty cool, primarily young couples starting families. There is a weirdo next to us though... if he came asking to borrow something I'm not sure I'd be cool with it.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:57 pm to Napoleon
Sounds like you live in a poor neighborhood
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:57 pm to Napoleon
That sounds miserable.
frick that guy.
quote:
First response, "You don't know how to change a water pump?"
frick that guy.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:58 pm to Napoleon
quote:
Then my other neighbor calls yesterday says she had her thermostat go out in her car. (according to boyfriend) So I change that last night in the dark while it's hot as hell and just accept $20 for doing it. Today it turns out it's the water pump and not the thermostat and she just calls and said "I left it in your driveway with the hood popped and the keys can you change it and I'll pay you back?" That's a complicated job, it's a timing belt driven water pump. So I moved it back into her driveway. flushed the radiator and said "I can't do it" and now she is giving me a sob story about her patients she can't get to. So I text her sons and ask them to send over a mechanic. (I'm not a mechanic)
Gonna need pics or at least an OT rating before we can proceed to the correct response for this.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:59 pm to Napoleon
I had a neighbor, that was 70 years old, but very active. He asked to use my weed eater once his was broken, no problem. He got used to the fact that I'd always let him borrow it and did about another 35 times. Well, I was mowing my grass one day and the neighbor borrowed the weed eater the day before. I went over to grab it, he wasn't there, and as his wife was looking for it, couldn't find it. She said she'd call him to see where he had it, 20 minutes later, his 30 year old son comes driving up and pulls it out the back of his truck. I happened to be outside and confronted him about it, and he said his dad said I was ok with it. Really pissed me off, so I shot the old man, endo story.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:59 pm to Napoleon
move
Posted on 12/11/15 at 12:59 pm to BoredOne
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It's nice to help people until they start to take advantage. I would be mega pissed if someone left their car in my driveway for me to fix.
This.
Its one thing to offer help, but for them to expect you to help all the time is something completely different.
I would have done the same thing you did.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 1:00 pm to BoredOne
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I would be mega pissed if someone left their car in my driveway for me to fix.
That's kind of where I got super upset. Of course I tell my Dad and now he wants to come over and help me fix it. "It's Christmas time, you need to do good deeds for others"
argghh.
I already know I'm going to wind up doing this job too. It's super dirty and nasty, I keep my engine clean enough to eat off of, on hers I was caked in dirt even wearing arm protectors and nitrile gloves.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 1:00 pm to Napoleon
The house next door to me is for sale. You should think about. I got a few things around my house that need fixing.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 1:00 pm to Gris Gris
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Takes some nerve to put your car in someone else's driveway and tell them it's there for that person to fix. Geez...
That I kinda get, he did try to fix it once so it would make sense he would be willing to help again.
What I don't get is the old guy asking for money for smokes and a ride to get smokes. That takes some balls. And why didn't he just ask you to go get him smokes? Seems like he was doing that in a round about way.
Posted on 12/11/15 at 1:01 pm to southernelite
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Sounds like you live in a poor neighborhood
OT response. It's middle class, house across the street just sold for $329k. Hows your hood?
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