Hosed once!
Things were going well a relative of a good friend agreed to paint the car. Little did I know that this person who had supposedly "turned over a new leaf", was right back at his old tricks("screwing" people out of their hard earned money). He had the car for a couple of months and accomplished little or nothing that was agreed upon. The car was wet sanded and a coat of sealer was applied. Then is when he got greedy and wanted more cash to fix this spot and that spot. After I had given him more money nothing was getting finished and the car was sitting outside not be taken care of. So I cut my monetary losses, went and retrieved my car and my materials and took it “home”.
Hosed again!
The huge garage that I and a friend had rented for many years was being sold. We met with the new owner, and he was going to continue to rent to us with a slight increase in rent and the loss of one of the 4 garage bays. No big deal. Major crisis averted, or so we thought. The new owner/idiot then gets the bright idea that we are going to pay his bills and he is going to increase the rent 300%. Sorry buck! We and all of our tools, supplies, lighting upgrades, central heating unit, and any other additions or improvements to the building that we installed left with us. I guess he thought he had us by the “short and curlies” The joke was on him in the long run. As the dope didn’t have the sense to change the electric bill changed to is name by the time we were supposed to be out. The electricity was turned off the next day. We were told to, “get our stuff out by the end of the month and leave the scrap behind”. Let me tell you we did just that. If we had left it behind it truly was scrap and worth nothing to no one! LOL