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This is going to be short. Around here, you would think that in Podunk, there would be some people who would cut the grass pretty cheaply. Well, you would think so anyway. This year has been bad for us for several reasons. One is that there is no one in the family capable of cutting my Mom’s grass. It got to be pretty tall over the spring and early summer. Frankly, you could lose the cats and dogs in it there for a while. My mother called someone to mow the lawn. Now, I do have to say that her yard is about an acre of ground since she is on a farm. However, that acre is quite easy to mow. A few trees, a house and that’s about it. No one would have a lot of trouble doing the work.
Here is the shame of the thing. She hired these two guys that, when we showed up one day so we saw this, were just sitting around not doing much of anything. At the time, it really did not look like they had done much. I should mention here that they had been there for a few hours already. We were visiting in the afternoon. No one was feeling well that day so they weren’t paying a whole lot of attention to these guys. By the time they left, they had spent all day on the grass. It had in actual time, probably taken them a couple of hours to do the work. After all, they were using a bush hog. Any one that knows what they are knows that they cover a lot of ground in a short time.
At the end of the day, she handed them over $400 to do what they did. They had charged her while they were sitting and doing nothing. She was paying them by the hour. I was shocked. Recently, she hired someone else to do the same work for about $150. Actually, I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked when it costs us $60 for our little lot but it still does.
The moral of this story is this. Check out who you are hiring to do work at your home. Be certain that they are reputable and will do the work you hired them to do. Be sure that these people are not spending the time sitting around if you are paying them by the hour. Do not leave while they work. Have someone on hand to oversee what’s going on. These people prey on those who are unaware and it costs them dearly. Guess this wasn’t as short as I thought it would be.
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