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today is my wife Thea's birthday. should i spank her? how many times? should i take her to dine at some cheap 2 bit breakfast restaurant? maybe, take her to macdonald's for dinner? what do you all think? what if i don't want to even give her a birthday card or gift?
Depends on whether or not you want to stay married. And if you spank her, remember to do it in love. And to tell that to the judge.
thanks Magenta, from thea & karlon!
Happy Birthday!
seriously, what would you do? a customer fired me because i wouldn't pick up the doggage. it's the guy's wife that fired me. the guy, a long time friend of mine from high school is a lawyer. she is, at times, a nasty individual, arrogant & authoritative. i started my landscape business back in 1975 at age 16 & all this time i have never known a lawn mowing man or a landscaper to pick up a customer's doggage. at the end of every year, i consider who i'm going to drop as a customer. they have been on the list the last 2 years, but i didn't drop them because he is a long time friend & a professional person plus the job's there pay well. now think of this: no one sees the doggage all the time so when you are weed wacking you may weedwack the doggage all over you! so what would you do? i have a good crop of well paying customers so i don't mind losing 1 or 2. i get others to replace them easily.
doggage? Is this like dog poos or something?
I didn't have that problem when I mowed lawns. I think the retirement village people were not allowed dogs or they had to keep them inside or on leashes if they went out. And they had to clean up after themselves.
I'd just raise the prices until they can't afford to pay (for that particular customer) or...recommend an alternative company although that would be sending the problem to someone else....
Oh well you can drop them but if its the wife who owns the dog that's the problem, have a word with her husband who can tell his wife or deal with her directly. If its the husband who's paying for your services then you just need to be straight with him.
In the meantime wear gaiters/PPE?
I didn't have that problem when I mowed lawns. I think the retirement village people were not allowed dogs or they had to keep them inside or on leashes if they went out. And they had to clean up after themselves.
I'd just raise the prices until they can't afford to pay (for that particular customer) or...recommend an alternative company although that would be sending the problem to someone else....
Oh well you can drop them but if its the wife who owns the dog that's the problem, have a word with her husband who can tell his wife or deal with her directly. If its the husband who's paying for your services then you just need to be straight with him.
In the meantime wear gaiters/PPE?
How old is your wife Karlon?
I mean is it ok to ask? Cos if she's that young what you do is throw a party and bake a cake from out of the Australian Womans' Weekly Birthday Cake book, and play games like statue and pin the tail on the donkey, and pass the parcel.
This is the cake...
I mean is it ok to ask? Cos if she's that young what you do is throw a party and bake a cake from out of the Australian Womans' Weekly Birthday Cake book, and play games like statue and pin the tail on the donkey, and pass the parcel.
This is the cake...
yes, dog shlitz! raising prices will get someone a bad reputation, especially in some areas & people will talk fast about raising prices, which leads to less work. when someone fires me that has a bad attitude, is shrewish & is incompatible, i never contact them again. the relationship is totally over. there were a few cases a former customer, as said above, called me for work but i charged them a very high amount just because of what's called "aggravation fee"! i told him in the past about the doggage, no change resulted. too, many times at the end of mowing his lawn, i had to clean the mowing machine & that takes time. everything is fine with me & i'm already getting new work to replace that person.
Well thats good to know
Shake the dust off your feet and move on.
The only thing that messed up the mowers where I am was cabbage tree leaves. Had to remove them before mowing as they get tangled up in the blades, So advice to landscapers/gardeners do NOT plant a cabbage tree near a lawn, or don't sow a lawn near a cabbage tree.
appreciated. good to know.
that young? no, that old! hahaha. she's older than me by 3 years, 70. wow, neat cake! we just experienced a caribbean vacation back in march in st. thomas. then she went on another one in may.
Sounds like the Golden Years. I mean she's a Golden Girl.
If she lived in NZ, she'd have a Gold Card. It's a special card only those over 65 can get and it means you get free public transport and 5-10% off your groceries. A lot of Golden Oldies I know use the card to go on free trips to Waiheke Island, in the Hauraki Gulf.
Not quite the Caribbean, or Fiji, but you get what you can.
I am way too young and have to pay full price for everything.
Well that was yesterday 10:03 AM my time.
I don't think we can have a conversation right now I would be a day ahead.
I don't think I do that well for conversations over the phone, whenever someone tried to call me I would be busy doing things to pick up, like driving or in a meeting, or maybe in the bathroom. Or falling asleep. And then there would be interruptions on the line, and the person on the other end would be hearing things I can't hear and going 'what's that noise?' when I hadn't said anything.
And when I don't say anything like I'm pausing for breath cos I need air, or you've caught me at dinner time and I'm in the middle of a meal or finishing my snack/desert I can't talk with my mouth full, you'd be like 'can you hear me??' or 'what are you eating?'
The worst is when someone calls me and asks me 'what am you doing?' and I just say 'talking on the phone with you' as if it isn't blindly obvious.
Then the conversation doesn't go anywhere, actually, I don't know where it's supposed to even go. Do people like the sound of my voice? Cos I don't lol.
I don't think we can have a conversation right now I would be a day ahead.
I don't think I do that well for conversations over the phone, whenever someone tried to call me I would be busy doing things to pick up, like driving or in a meeting, or maybe in the bathroom. Or falling asleep. And then there would be interruptions on the line, and the person on the other end would be hearing things I can't hear and going 'what's that noise?' when I hadn't said anything.
And when I don't say anything like I'm pausing for breath cos I need air, or you've caught me at dinner time and I'm in the middle of a meal or finishing my snack/desert I can't talk with my mouth full, you'd be like 'can you hear me??' or 'what are you eating?'
The worst is when someone calls me and asks me 'what am you doing?' and I just say 'talking on the phone with you' as if it isn't blindly obvious.
Then the conversation doesn't go anywhere, actually, I don't know where it's supposed to even go. Do people like the sound of my voice? Cos I don't lol.
so phunnneee! i use the "talking to you" answer always also! well, it's yankee time soon. was super busy today working & shopping for an elderly lady & will be super busy tomorrow. wednesday, i can chat with you if you want.