So PEVED right now!!!

[Detailing by M]

Last week a loser asked me for a card when I was detailing for my wonderfull customers. I figured he wouldn't call. Well he did. I told him I'd work with him since he was an unemployed, dunken carpenter.
So I show up today at 3 no less!!!!!!, explain his new girlfiends white 4 runner was stained and needed a polish or atleast a cleaner wax. He cryed that he was broke and could only give me $60 bucks. So being the nice guy I am I said to myself, eee, wash, clay, express wax wasn't a big deal for me to do.
Well during the wash he started criticizing me.
I should have left then when I smelled the alkehall on his breath.
But being a man of my word I finished the job.
at the end he started cussing at me and complaing about the stains in the paint that I clearly told him I wouldn't fix.
That's it as far as cheap, crying customers! This is the second cheapy I did where they expected more then we agreed upon.
Why are the cheap ones the biggest pain?
So learn from my mistake and don't lower your price just to please someone.
It hasn't worked out for me.

[wifpd4]

Re: So PEVED right now!!!

No is difficult to say sometimes and hindsight is so 20/20. Not sure, but putting him to work helping clean the car may have helped, but alcohol does change the dynamic of the situation. I'm not even sure having the work described in writing and signed by him would have helped. Lose-lose.

[Detailing by M]

Re: So PEVED right now!!!

yes I blame alkeehall, everything was kinda ok in the beginning and then he just went off, cursing and not listening to me about anything.
and I should have handed him my rotary and skewed him about detailing on that!!!
lol that would have been great.

[wifpd4]

Re: So PEVED right now!!!

Perhaps not handed him a buffer, but perhaps a wash mitt. You chose to perform a charitable act for someone who lost his job and is now drinking or lost his job because of his drinking or he could have lost his job for a dozen other reasons. Good heavens it's even possible, he still has a job and is a bit of a con artist. I'm sure for each person like him there are ten others who would have appreciated the assistance. His anger may not have been directed at you, but rather his situation. Or it was just his method to get something for nothing.

If you want to perform charitable work, do it through the Red Cross or a local church. Although I doubt folks in need are worried about stains on their cars, but I could be wrong.

You have done some good, as you said, and folks will "learn from my mistake". And we thank you for that.