@Badgardener@mountains.social
So I’m currently landscaping the front garden of a friend (whose husband is ‘problematic’). It’s a MASSIVE job for a one-man band, and I’ve given her a low daily rate, no profit margin on materials and ten-hour days, and am frankly performing miracles for about half what it should cost, whilst destroying my knees.
So anyway, said husband collared me yesterday and, amongst other gems, told me that if he ‘felt’ that I was too expensive, he’d get someone else in to finish the job, or do it himself (this is a man who’d take three goes to work out which end to hold a hammer). By strange coincidence, his wife - my friend - went away on a break yesterday, so he obviously felt emboldened.
So I did what everybody should do when faced with a narcissist: totalled the bill up to date and informed him that he’d need to pay in full before anything else got done, took some time off to spend with my family, shut down his subsequent gaslighting (apparently, and I quote, it was “a throwaway comment that I have since forgotten” and he’s offended by my reaction to it)…
And told on him to his wife.
Ooh, she’s livid. He’s gonna get it when she comes home.
In the meantime, he’s got seven tonnes of grit blocking his driveway and thirty tonnes of soil piled up in front of his house. Which will still be there when she gets back, because I’m spending some time with my family instead.
So, a lovely day off with my wife to go see our new campervan. We may even stop off for lunch somewhere pleasant and tonight, for once my knees won’t keep me awake.
Photo of a planter (and pretty-much everything else in the photo) I made for an elderly client. She was delighted, and hardly threatened me at all.
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