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non drinking religion
Perhaps he can pray for you?
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I feel for you, matey. I’ve been a bike mechanic and occasional fixer of other stuff for many years and do get people in that make you speechless. The worst of these are as you describe because you can’t help but think by putting them right you are doing society, in general, a wrong by prolonging their existence and their usage of an incompatible object that will result in bloodshed, anxiety, pain and grieving, potentially to innocent persons.
I had one bloke in, (intelligent with a nice house, expensive car, good job) that rode his £1500 bike for so long with a buckled wheel that he put a hole in his chainstay and didn’t believe me when I explained the issue.
Another frequent visitor just kept oiling his chain every ride despite what I told him over and over again. The crap I got off the rear mech pulleys fill up my hand.
Basically these people are hardwired to be hard headed and no amount of single-syllable sentence structuring will be simple enough to get the message “STOP, NOW, WALK AWAY!” through. -
Generally decent food kind of religion? I'd tell him everyone else sorts me out with a few beers, obviously I wouldn't expect that from you but your weekend meals smell amazing.
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"Ahh, so sorry, I'm real busy"
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Not really an “I hate” but more a disappointment in myself.
I have a fairly large and well equipped workshop. It has now become de facto that people on the street come to me with problems (mechanical, electrical and structural) and I help out. Fine. I offer. Bottles of wine and malt are the accepted (but unsaid) currency that flow in return.
I have a newish neighbour who snapped the pull start on his mower. No problem, took an hour out of my life, but fitted a new cord for him.
He’s just texted me, and I’ve been to see it.
Mower wouldn’t start so he’s ripped the cord (brand new) so many times and so hard that he’s frayed it to a hair - actually taken the casing off it.
How can you be that mechanically insensitive that you can do that? And be allowed petrol engines?
Anyway. Now I am sort of duty bound to service the mower and fit another cord (by my own code).
(Edit) he’s just mowed his lawns with my mower and dropped it back at the gate. Asks if OK to drop his one over on the weekend for me to work on. Oh, and he is of a non drinking religion so no chance of a bottle. Well actually no chance of a return favour at all given past performance.
Over the last year or so I’ve fixed taps, mended a shed roof, bled central heating system and sorted an under sink leak for him.
I hate me for not being able to say ‘piss off’ when people come to me for help.
Old folks - absolutely. Help anytime and expect nothing in return. This guy is fifteen years my junior and just fucking useless.