Damn kid took my $7. Now, this wasn't a lowend VPS either...
Yesterday afternoon I was still awake, it was around noon and I get a knock on my door. I don't answer, I'm not expecting anyone or anything. Doorbell rings and knocks again. I look out the blinds, no car in the driveway. Weird. So I stick my head up to glare through the top glass in the door and I see some kid walking away.
I open the door, he turns around and I say, "Hey, whats up?". I just assumed he had the wrong house. He said he was going around looking for places that needed yard work. Looking at my yard, it needed mowed. He said he'd do it cheap, like $5. I've got a tiny tiny yard right now, at most it'd take 5 minutes or so to do the front, maybe ten minutes to do the sides and back. Tiny yard. I say, "Hold on". I came inside and checked my wallet and I had $7 ones in my wallet and some twenties, so I give him the $7 and say tell him to do mine and the neighbors. It's all one yard, looks stupid to go down the middle with half the grass tall and half of it cut. They mow our yard when they do theres because it takes like two minutes.
Anyway, kid said his name was Chris. I said 'nice to meet you Chris, I'm Curtis' shook his hand and he said he had to walk down to his house to get his mower. Kid was like 16 or 17. Looked like that chubby kid from Bad Santa but grown up a bit. Figured he just wanted to earn some extra money doing actual work.
Long story short, the little fucker never came back. I only paid him beforehand so I could go to sleep for a while and not worry about having him knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell waking me up. Thinking he may have got caught up with other yard work I waited until dark today to write it off as me getting had.
Now I feel like an old man. DAMN KIDS!
You live and learn. $7 life lesson. Looking at the fat little guy I should have expected him to not actually do any physical yard work. Probably spent my $7 on Mt. Dew Code red and a pack of smokes.
Yesterday afternoon I was still awake, it was around noon and I get a knock on my door. I don't answer, I'm not expecting anyone or anything. Doorbell rings and knocks again. I look out the blinds, no car in the driveway. Weird. So I stick my head up to glare through the top glass in the door and I see some kid walking away.
I open the door, he turns around and I say, "Hey, whats up?". I just assumed he had the wrong house. He said he was going around looking for places that needed yard work. Looking at my yard, it needed mowed. He said he'd do it cheap, like $5. I've got a tiny tiny yard right now, at most it'd take 5 minutes or so to do the front, maybe ten minutes to do the sides and back. Tiny yard. I say, "Hold on". I came inside and checked my wallet and I had $7 ones in my wallet and some twenties, so I give him the $7 and say tell him to do mine and the neighbors. It's all one yard, looks stupid to go down the middle with half the grass tall and half of it cut. They mow our yard when they do theres because it takes like two minutes.
Anyway, kid said his name was Chris. I said 'nice to meet you Chris, I'm Curtis' shook his hand and he said he had to walk down to his house to get his mower. Kid was like 16 or 17. Looked like that chubby kid from Bad Santa but grown up a bit. Figured he just wanted to earn some extra money doing actual work.
Long story short, the little fucker never came back. I only paid him beforehand so I could go to sleep for a while and not worry about having him knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell waking me up. Thinking he may have got caught up with other yard work I waited until dark today to write it off as me getting had.
Now I feel like an old man. DAMN KIDS!
You live and learn. $7 life lesson. Looking at the fat little guy I should have expected him to not actually do any physical yard work. Probably spent my $7 on Mt. Dew Code red and a pack of smokes.
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