SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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When I got home this evening I found two envelopes on my front door. The first was an offer from a neighbor asking me to build him a set of steps much like the ones I just finished here. I sat there and thought about it for a minute before realizing just who this person was.
I had done some work for him a couple of months ago. Nothing too hard, I had just replaced the screens in his patio. The screening material cost a bit over one hundred dollars and the work had taken me roughly six hours. (Hey it was a good sized patio and every one of the tracks for the Spline had to be ground out as they were corroded.) I was only going to charge the guy Fifty Dollars.
When I was done I handed him the receipts for the materials which he looked at then started laughing as he told me to get the hell off his property. It would be a cold day in hell before he paid a lousy Jewboy a damned penny. (Where he got Jewboy from I don't know. I'm only Jewish from my fathers side of the family and we didn't even know that until I was 22.)
Now he wanted me to build him a set of stairs? I put the offer to the side so I could think of a polite way to tell him to fold it until it was all sharp corners and insert it rectaly.
The other envelope contained a warning notice from the park. It seems there is a new scam going on locally. Someone is going around putting For Sale signs on trailers with an out of state phone number. Calling the number gets you a message that the company has been contracted by local banks to sell off Foreclosure Properties at a deep discount. It asks you for the address of the unit you are interested in. Once you give them the address you get a call back that informs you of the price of the place and what you need to do to buy the place. The State Attorny General has been notified of this scam.
I wonder how many people are going to have uninvited people showing up at their doors with their belongings demanding to be allowed in?
Cat
I had done some work for him a couple of months ago. Nothing too hard, I had just replaced the screens in his patio. The screening material cost a bit over one hundred dollars and the work had taken me roughly six hours. (Hey it was a good sized patio and every one of the tracks for the Spline had to be ground out as they were corroded.) I was only going to charge the guy Fifty Dollars.
When I was done I handed him the receipts for the materials which he looked at then started laughing as he told me to get the hell off his property. It would be a cold day in hell before he paid a lousy Jewboy a damned penny. (Where he got Jewboy from I don't know. I'm only Jewish from my fathers side of the family and we didn't even know that until I was 22.)
Now he wanted me to build him a set of stairs? I put the offer to the side so I could think of a polite way to tell him to fold it until it was all sharp corners and insert it rectaly.
The other envelope contained a warning notice from the park. It seems there is a new scam going on locally. Someone is going around putting For Sale signs on trailers with an out of state phone number. Calling the number gets you a message that the company has been contracted by local banks to sell off Foreclosure Properties at a deep discount. It asks you for the address of the unit you are interested in. Once you give them the address you get a call back that informs you of the price of the place and what you need to do to buy the place. The State Attorny General has been notified of this scam.
I wonder how many people are going to have uninvited people showing up at their doors with their belongings demanding to be allowed in?
Cat
