banshee67
Poulan Wild Thang
so i made a thread a few months back , maybe some of you remember it, probably not..
the cliff notes:
- delivered 3 cords of firewood to guy around april (all top quality ash/hickory/blacklocust/blackbirch, no rot, perfect wood)
-guy asks me about stacking them, AFTER i had already delivered all 3 in a big pile on his lawn,i reluctantly agreed because of promised future business, accepted $60 up front to come back and do it the following weekend after he built a rack
-he disappears, then calls me 3 months later.. "i got bugs in my wood, come get this outa here and bring me new wood" ... .. .
-go to his house to see how its been stored for the last 3 months. its left exactly how it was, one big pile on the grass(and pine needles) covered air tight in a HUGE BLUE TARP! with rocks around the edges to keep it tight to the ground of course! lol -effectively creating the perfect breeding ground for bugs/mold, etc. especially in the nice humid summer months. clearly it was his fault, but i reluctantly agreed to take the 1/6th of a cord(half of which didnt even have any bugs or signs of bugs) or so that he had put aside,and bring him new wood at my own expense.
-so after those 3 months he still isnt done with his "firewood rack" and says he will call me when hes done in a week or 2, so i can bring by the new wood, and stack all the other wood for him that hes already paid me to do , 3 months ago.
-2 more months go by and no word from him, he disappears again, so now we are at 5+ months from the original delivery date, now at present time
-calls me last week finally , but 4-5 times in a day, leaving multiple voice mails, basically accusing ME of disappearing, trying to make off with his $60 he paid me to stack(lol) and going back on my word to bring him more wood to replace the wood he left on the wet ground for 3 months that got bugs. this is when his mental health came into question... i didnt call him back that day, i figured it was 8pm when i heard his messages, ill call him tomorrow.. no big deal, so youd think..
next day... multiple calls from him, and voicemails , accusing me of some BS again! so now hes really bothering me... i said ok ill let this idiot wait a day or 2. still had every intention in the world of holding true to my word, i was NEVER going to screw the guy. then something weird happens.. the next day, he calls my HOUSE PHONE! i have NO idea how he got my house line? so now hes calling my home at 8pm on sunday night !!!
i call him back the next day and tell him hes out of line, hes the one who kept disappearing and i have every intention of bringing him more wood, free, and stacking the rest of it.
i talk to him lastnight, and tell him ill be over today, sunday, at 2pm. he says ok. never a thank you, nothing, no apology for all his accusations, nothing.
so i load up about 1/6th of a cord in my trailer , all white and red oak. which is pretty damn good if you asked me.. especially for free to replace the wood he let rot in the pine needles and grass. anyway...
its about 15 miles to his house, all back roads, so it takes at least 20+ mins to get there, im about 1 mile from his house. its 2:05pm on the dot (im 5 mins later i know! lol) and my phone rings.. i figure hes gona be an idiot and bother me about being 5 mins late.. nope, even worse.
he says "its raining, i dont wana do it today"... here i am a mile from your house, driving 50mph, and the road isnt even wet and i dont even need my winsheild wipers.. it was misting, at best. not even, sun was coming out. no rain, dry ground. i told him im a mile from your house, sorry, im comin! this is one of many wasted trips ive already made and im not burning more gas and time for nothing again.. IM COMIN!!!
he replies that hes not going to take the cover off his wood, in the "rain" because he doesnt want his wood getting "wet". i was shocked.. this was after i said im right around the corner, he knows i live quite a ways away. i said look, im coming, end of story, he gets all quiet.. and doesnt respond.. i said how about i just come drop this wood off, give you your $60 back for stacking, and we can forget about any future business. no answer... so i hungup..
pull into his driveway about 2 mins later, literally, and hes standing outside all pissed off looking. i drive past, hit the culdasac to turn around like i always do to make the back-in angle with the trailer better... i make it about 5 feet in reverse and he RUNS over to my truck LIVID!
"YOU TOOK WAY MORE WOOD OUTA HERE, THIS ISNT EVEN CLOSE TO HOW MUCH WOOD I GAVE YOU BACK"
he was so wrong, i didnt even know what to say..
he was all worked up, trembling, raising his voice, got real close to my truck window, so i opened the door and stepped out.
i explained to him that no firewood vendor in the world would come back and pickup wood that you left laying in your wet lawn under a tarp for 3+ months with bugs in it and exchange it for new clean wood. i told him i was doing a favor by doing so, and this red/white oak i had for him was more at least as much as the rotton wood i took out months ago. he didnt wana hear it.. just wanted to yell and scream and argue. i tried to explain to him how ive bent oiver backwards trying to make him happy because i want him to be happy and wanted to make things right for him even though hes the one in the wrong, more yelling and screaming from him. he kept interrupting me with bull#### everytime i tried to calmly explain how out of line he was and how unreasonable he was being.
i told him the worst possible way to store firewood was to leave it on the wet grass and pine needles covered air tight with a blue tarp and rocks holding it down, he interrupted me again and said "it wasnt wet, i had it tarped".. he couldnt seem to grasp the concept of moisture coming through the grass and being trapped in his bio-dome of a tarp cover he had set up.
he then instructed that i was to "just ####ing give me $100, keep the wood on your trailer and get the #### outa here"...
this is how you treat someone who goes out of their way over the course of many months to make you happy?
so not only did he want his $60 back for the wood i didnt stack (perfectly fine with me..) he thought i should PAY him $40 because in his mind the replacement oak i brought him wasnt the same amount as his rotton bug wood that i so kindly removed several months earlier?
i told him i shouldnt even be there, and that ive never had a problem like this ever, with any customer, and the same wood he claimed was infected, i have at my house, and 2 other customers houses, who ive since visited and is perfectly fine, dry and bug free! (they dont leave theirs in heaps covered in blue tarps on wet laws for 5 months)
i told him ill give you the $60 back.. and you can have this oak on my trailer, or i can take it with me.. take your pick.. he did some more grumbling and said "give me my ####in money , dump the ####in wood over there and get the #### outa here"
after unloading the wood, i walked over, handed him his $60 and left without saying a word. i could have really got into it with him..a few years ago i probably would have.. but it just wasnt worth it, you cant fix stupid.
i tried....lol
feels good to get that off my chest, this guy has been bothering me for almost 6 months back and fourth with this ####.. easy to say it wasnt worth the $500-600 i made off him for the 3cord in the first place.
the only part that i dont like about all this, aside from all my wasted gas time and labor.. he went through the trouble to find out where i live, and what my home phone number is.. kind of creepy. hope he doesnt get any stupid ideas
i just got home from dealing with this idiot, what a waste of a sunday afternoon.. thats what you get for being a nice guy though, right?
ok end of rant.
the cliff notes:
- delivered 3 cords of firewood to guy around april (all top quality ash/hickory/blacklocust/blackbirch, no rot, perfect wood)
-guy asks me about stacking them, AFTER i had already delivered all 3 in a big pile on his lawn,i reluctantly agreed because of promised future business, accepted $60 up front to come back and do it the following weekend after he built a rack
-he disappears, then calls me 3 months later.. "i got bugs in my wood, come get this outa here and bring me new wood" ... .. .
-go to his house to see how its been stored for the last 3 months. its left exactly how it was, one big pile on the grass(and pine needles) covered air tight in a HUGE BLUE TARP! with rocks around the edges to keep it tight to the ground of course! lol -effectively creating the perfect breeding ground for bugs/mold, etc. especially in the nice humid summer months. clearly it was his fault, but i reluctantly agreed to take the 1/6th of a cord(half of which didnt even have any bugs or signs of bugs) or so that he had put aside,and bring him new wood at my own expense.
-so after those 3 months he still isnt done with his "firewood rack" and says he will call me when hes done in a week or 2, so i can bring by the new wood, and stack all the other wood for him that hes already paid me to do , 3 months ago.
-2 more months go by and no word from him, he disappears again, so now we are at 5+ months from the original delivery date, now at present time
-calls me last week finally , but 4-5 times in a day, leaving multiple voice mails, basically accusing ME of disappearing, trying to make off with his $60 he paid me to stack(lol) and going back on my word to bring him more wood to replace the wood he left on the wet ground for 3 months that got bugs. this is when his mental health came into question... i didnt call him back that day, i figured it was 8pm when i heard his messages, ill call him tomorrow.. no big deal, so youd think..
next day... multiple calls from him, and voicemails , accusing me of some BS again! so now hes really bothering me... i said ok ill let this idiot wait a day or 2. still had every intention in the world of holding true to my word, i was NEVER going to screw the guy. then something weird happens.. the next day, he calls my HOUSE PHONE! i have NO idea how he got my house line? so now hes calling my home at 8pm on sunday night !!!
i call him back the next day and tell him hes out of line, hes the one who kept disappearing and i have every intention of bringing him more wood, free, and stacking the rest of it.
i talk to him lastnight, and tell him ill be over today, sunday, at 2pm. he says ok. never a thank you, nothing, no apology for all his accusations, nothing.
so i load up about 1/6th of a cord in my trailer , all white and red oak. which is pretty damn good if you asked me.. especially for free to replace the wood he let rot in the pine needles and grass. anyway...
its about 15 miles to his house, all back roads, so it takes at least 20+ mins to get there, im about 1 mile from his house. its 2:05pm on the dot (im 5 mins later i know! lol) and my phone rings.. i figure hes gona be an idiot and bother me about being 5 mins late.. nope, even worse.
he says "its raining, i dont wana do it today"... here i am a mile from your house, driving 50mph, and the road isnt even wet and i dont even need my winsheild wipers.. it was misting, at best. not even, sun was coming out. no rain, dry ground. i told him im a mile from your house, sorry, im comin! this is one of many wasted trips ive already made and im not burning more gas and time for nothing again.. IM COMIN!!!
he replies that hes not going to take the cover off his wood, in the "rain" because he doesnt want his wood getting "wet". i was shocked.. this was after i said im right around the corner, he knows i live quite a ways away. i said look, im coming, end of story, he gets all quiet.. and doesnt respond.. i said how about i just come drop this wood off, give you your $60 back for stacking, and we can forget about any future business. no answer... so i hungup..
pull into his driveway about 2 mins later, literally, and hes standing outside all pissed off looking. i drive past, hit the culdasac to turn around like i always do to make the back-in angle with the trailer better... i make it about 5 feet in reverse and he RUNS over to my truck LIVID!
"YOU TOOK WAY MORE WOOD OUTA HERE, THIS ISNT EVEN CLOSE TO HOW MUCH WOOD I GAVE YOU BACK"
he was so wrong, i didnt even know what to say..
he was all worked up, trembling, raising his voice, got real close to my truck window, so i opened the door and stepped out.
i explained to him that no firewood vendor in the world would come back and pickup wood that you left laying in your wet lawn under a tarp for 3+ months with bugs in it and exchange it for new clean wood. i told him i was doing a favor by doing so, and this red/white oak i had for him was more at least as much as the rotton wood i took out months ago. he didnt wana hear it.. just wanted to yell and scream and argue. i tried to explain to him how ive bent oiver backwards trying to make him happy because i want him to be happy and wanted to make things right for him even though hes the one in the wrong, more yelling and screaming from him. he kept interrupting me with bull#### everytime i tried to calmly explain how out of line he was and how unreasonable he was being.
i told him the worst possible way to store firewood was to leave it on the wet grass and pine needles covered air tight with a blue tarp and rocks holding it down, he interrupted me again and said "it wasnt wet, i had it tarped".. he couldnt seem to grasp the concept of moisture coming through the grass and being trapped in his bio-dome of a tarp cover he had set up.
he then instructed that i was to "just ####ing give me $100, keep the wood on your trailer and get the #### outa here"...
this is how you treat someone who goes out of their way over the course of many months to make you happy?
so not only did he want his $60 back for the wood i didnt stack (perfectly fine with me..) he thought i should PAY him $40 because in his mind the replacement oak i brought him wasnt the same amount as his rotton bug wood that i so kindly removed several months earlier?
i told him i shouldnt even be there, and that ive never had a problem like this ever, with any customer, and the same wood he claimed was infected, i have at my house, and 2 other customers houses, who ive since visited and is perfectly fine, dry and bug free! (they dont leave theirs in heaps covered in blue tarps on wet laws for 5 months)
i told him ill give you the $60 back.. and you can have this oak on my trailer, or i can take it with me.. take your pick.. he did some more grumbling and said "give me my ####in money , dump the ####in wood over there and get the #### outa here"
after unloading the wood, i walked over, handed him his $60 and left without saying a word. i could have really got into it with him..a few years ago i probably would have.. but it just wasnt worth it, you cant fix stupid.
i tried....lol
feels good to get that off my chest, this guy has been bothering me for almost 6 months back and fourth with this ####.. easy to say it wasnt worth the $500-600 i made off him for the 3cord in the first place.
the only part that i dont like about all this, aside from all my wasted gas time and labor.. he went through the trouble to find out where i live, and what my home phone number is.. kind of creepy. hope he doesnt get any stupid ideas
i just got home from dealing with this idiot, what a waste of a sunday afternoon.. thats what you get for being a nice guy though, right?
ok end of rant.
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