[Rhodes22-list] (OT) No good deed goes unpunished.

[Bill Effros]

Todd,

What's the trick to starting those things?  I assume there is a pressure 
release somewhere.  I inherited one, but it's such a pain to start, I 
rarely use it. 

Bill Effros

Todd Tavares wrote:
> The list is slow today so pardon me for airing my frustration in a rant. 
>
> I guess I am the kind of person that can never say no.  Not having made a
> New Years resolution, I think it will start now.  My resolution is to
> just say "NO"
>
> I have quite a collection of tools...both hand and power tools.  I take
> very good care of my tools...never abusing them and cleaning them when I
> am finished, etc. etc.
>
> I also have a brother-in-law (wife's sister's husband) that likes to
> borrow my tools.  He never remembers to return them...usually keeping
> them so long that he eventually believes they are his and I have to argue
> to get them back.  My tools, most times come back dirty and/or broken.  I
> always bite my tongue because my wife doesn't want me to start trouble in
> the family.  (I am a very generous person, BUT I do have a short fuse)
>
> A few weeks ago during a casual conversation he asked to borrow my
> pressure washer.  Not having the _______ to say no,  I changed the
> subject and never answered him.  A week and a half later, last Saturday
> morning, he called me to say that the first time he tried to start my
> power washer, the cord came out in his hand.
>
> OH YEAH!  HE CAME BY MY HOUSE WHEN I WAS AT WORK AND TOOK THE POWERWASHER
> OUT OF MY GARAGE!?!?!  (I live way out in the sticks and up until now
> never locked the garage or sheds.)
>
>  THEN HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO CALL ME--- TO SEE IF I WOULD DRIVE 15 MILES
> TO HIS HOUSE TO TRY TO REPAIR THE DANG THING!
>
> OOOOOOOOHHH  was I mad!!!   Conger up images of Yosemite Sam jumping up
> and down, shooting his six guns at the ground----that was me.
>
> I told him he needed to take it somewhere and have it fixed then.  I
> added..."better yet,  just give me $200 and keep it."    I have only run
> it for 30 minutes since I bought it---just to check it out----he has used
> it twice)  after about 20 seconds of dead silence,  I ended the
> conversation with a "see ya later" and I hung up.  My sister-in-law told
> me that he got it fixed for $20 and power washed his deck.---no mention
> of the 200 bucks.
>
> I went to a party/barbeque yesterday and was gone all day.  After running
> to town this morning, I got home and came in through the garage.  And
> there was the power washer......filthy dirty and covered with oil.     OH
> BOY! was my fuse lit again.  It almost made me start drinking again.
>
> Any suggestions or soothing words?  LOL     See attachments
>
> Todd T. 
>
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