Driveway disaster

[mckeetree]

Oh yeah! ...Just remembered my biggest liability!

My employee cut down the wrong tree once: a 65' tall spruce, with a matching partner on the other side of the yard! If the missing tree was anything like the one he left, it was magnificent. We were totally liable; we went to "1 E", instead of "1 W".

The guy was totally cool about it. I agreed to do what ever he wanted in landscaping and maintenance to pay for the missing tree, and he ended up moving out of the house having only gotten about $500 in services. I'll bet it would have been at least 20 grand if a lawyer got a hold of it.

Once again, that was just pure luck: good luck offsetting the bad employee (and management).

You cut down the wrong tree in my neck of the woods and your ass is grass. We came close to it once but thank God it got straightened out minutes beforehand. Some of my old competition did it once and I used it as a sales tool for years.

 

[pdqdl]

Blues despair and agony on thee lol I like chess

I can do chess! No luck required.

25 years ago, I used to think I was pretty decent. A staggering drunk in a bar tried desperately to get me to play him, and I didn't even want to participate. It was a real quiet night, and I figured "what the heck". The guy could barely stand, but he skunked me real quick.

...Turns out he used to run a "chess shop", where all the masters came to play each other. He taught chess lessons too.

See! Good luck! I got a free lesson, and learned not to gamble with drunks, too.

 

[jefflovstrom]

You cut down the wrong tree in my neck of the woods and your ass is grass. We came close to it once but thank God it got straightened out minutes beforehand. Some of my old competition did it once and I used it as a sales tool for years.

Good to see 'Mr. Tough-guy' back. What's up Mac? You got a tick in your nether regions and need to vent?
Jeff :msp_smile:

 

[jefflovstrom]

I don't gamble. I can play poker all night long (nickle ante, ONLY) and not win one single hand. It's not that I don't know how to play, I simply don't ever get the cards. My dad taught me to play all different kinds of poker, but I NEVER win. If it requires luck to win at cards: I lose. If it is a game of skill (like spades or pinochle), I do pretty well.

My wife wins at slot machines, if I stay outside the building. Sometimes she wants me to come in, she will hand me $20 and tell me to feed a certain machine...All gone in minutes, just like putting change in an empty vending machine.

If I ever get to meet you, you will the second most 'jinx'-ed' man ever!
Jeff

 

[mckeetree]

Good to see 'Mr. Tough-guy' back. What's up Mac? You got a tick in your nether regions and need to vent?
Jeff :msp_smile:

Good to see "Mr. full of BS is still here too, Jeff." Your inferiority complex ass couldn't get an audience anywhere else.

 

[pdqdl]

If I ever get to meet you, you will the second most 'jinx'-ed' man ever!
Jeff

I think there is no doubt about it. You might as well call me Joe Btfsplk (pronounce like you were making a raspberry sound).

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[John Paul Sanborn]

Some people see us as an opportunity to sue. We get people all the time saying we did this or that. They get saw dust on their car and claim damage and want a new paint job. We handle it pretty good.
Jeff

Had a lady try to get us to pay for a punctured tire when we were working on a condo job. She said a big wood chip went through her sidewall.

One of the guys called the tire-shop and it turns out she is in all the time...because she is a slumlord and drives down the nasty alleys all the time.