sorry to vent but holy hell does it irritate me, wish they`d all go back to kommiefornia and piss up a rope.
We all got to put up with that crap Brian, not just in Cali phony a lol. I live in the middle of yuppydom and every morning heading out to work at the end of my driveway herds of em are walking their dogs to snoop into everyone's business. They give me the "how can you live here" look when I have been here for 30 years and they are brand new as I load my truck.
Yesterday I get a call from a regular customer and he has a tree down in his back yard. Give him a price on a big spread mulberry, 30 inch trunk, and a 30" sidewalk access thru bushes (shrubs in yuppyspeak). Gave him a price...."seems awful high".....me-"it'd be a lot more in busy season"...."ohhh, ok,...but can you do it now?
We load up gear after putting off another job and when we get there the wife says they changed their minds and they are gonna wait. We don't finish the other job because of 2 hours lost time, 4 man hours.
Then I had a call the night before for firewood. They just had a cord delivered at $190 and it did not burn. They were so indignant they made the company wheelbarrow it all the way around the house out and give them their money back.
I said my wood was 250$ trailer load and 1 and a quarter cord. "That is an awful lot but ahhh ok". I specifically told them that it was deliver and dump and collect. Also told them I would bring a small pile over for them to try out with kindling to avert prior guy's prob. "We trust you just bring it".
We loaded it up and I called yesterday to deliver. "You know that seems like an awful lot, but bring it". Me- "Ok I'll be right over....make the check out and where do we back up and drop it?"
"You mean you are not going to take it in back (maybe 100 wbarrow trips) for that high price?"
Sale over....now I got a load of splits on my dump trailer and cannot use it for tree work. You gotta love em , they are so adorable. And each and every one of the male of this species used to be a tree person and take down big trees prior to becoming president of their Widget company.