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

[Rik Sandberg]

Todd,

I can't offer much soothing, but I can tell you that you are sure not alone. Been there done that.

Back a few years now, I built a trailer to haul one of my race cars. One day, a friend (I thought) asked if he could use it to get a car home he was having trouble with. Since he had helped me build the trailer, I felt a bit obligated to let him get some benefit from his labor. So he takes it. Two weeks later, I'm getting ready to go racing, so I go over to his place to get the trailer. It's not there ....... He *loaned it* to some else, someone I didn't even know. As if this wan't bad enough, that guy then *loaned it* to another guy and we couldn't find him. Don't think I have to tell you that I was way more than just a bit pissed off.

Anybody want to borrow stuff from me now puts a hundred dollar cash deposit in my hand first. It's amazing how fast a hundred bucks will get stuff back.

Rik

-----Original Message-----
>From: Todd Tavares <sprocket80 at mail.com>
>Sent: May 28, 2006 7:39 PM
>To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] (OT) No good deed goes unpunished.
>
>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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