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  • Meli
    Banned
    • Nov 2010
    • 7163

    should I wear dark glasses?

    Another sneaky bastard.
    Another example of lack of integrety
    I'm clearing out my house and workshop.

    I put about 4 rather nice pieces of antique furniture out on the nature strip for anyone to take.

    The drop top top desk went to a neighbour, the glass fronted bookshelf went,

    There was a lovely old kauri pine rocking chair and a solid english oak dressing table with delicate turned legs and matching mirror.
    Well this old bloke rocks up and askes if I'm selling or giving them away.
    I said take em, I'm just de cluttering.
    Then he spots the miners couch and 19th cent garden table on my porch, and askes me if they are going out too.
    I said no, they live on the veranda.

    So he takes the chair.
    Comes back 30 min later and wants the dressing table. No problem. he says he restores them and gives them away (right, even I'm not that dumb)
    I dont care, said take it.
    So he askes if he can have just the mirror,
    I said NO.
    Shame to separate the two, and if that was what I had in mind I'd have kept it myself (the mirror)
    He says OK but I'll have to take them apart to get them in the car.
    I said fine, heres a screw driver.
    So he take the mirror off, puts it in his car and drives off.
    Leaving one lovely but now mutilated dressing table for me to get rid of.

    bastard
    Last edited by Meli; 08-12-2012, 01:48 AM.
  • Meli
    Banned
    • Nov 2010
    • 7163

    #2
    Re: should I wear dark glasses?

    OK, i'm just pissed off that someone takes a generous gesture and takes advantage and then leaves the giver with the crap.
    I'm tired of being taken advantage of and will just start to be as mean spirited and greedy as the other arseholes on this planet.
    Nice people seen to just get kicked in the teeth and sneered at and viewed as a sucker.
    the lesson Im learning is "why be nice" I could have sold that stuff on ebay for around $1000.
    Tried to give someone something nice for free, a happy "look what I found' sort of feeling.
    What do I get, $1000 less and still the clutter
    Bah. Nice is for suckers..

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    • Jim Ledger
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2006
      • 9805

      #3
      Re: should I wear dark glasses?

      And where were you...out back having a smoke?

      Listen, next time, when some old bloke (clue here) asks you for a screwdriver, you should hand him the butter knife you use to open paint cans and then keep your bloody eye on the sneaky bastard.
      Last edited by Jim Ledger; 08-12-2012, 07:08 AM.

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      • Meli
        Banned
        • Nov 2010
        • 7163

        #4
        Re: should I wear dark glasses?

        no, I was 10' away repairing the boards on my veranda

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        • Jim Ledger
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2006
          • 9805

          #5
          Re: should I wear dark glasses?

          Check and see if anything else has gone missing.

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          • Meli
            Banned
            • Nov 2010
            • 7163

            #6
            Re: should I wear dark glasses?

            This stuff was on the sidewalk. But I did take al my tools (and the miners couch and table) inside tonight.
            See my post re the honest thief. I've never had my house broken into in 25 years. I'M really burned.

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            • Mrleft8
              Banned
              • Feb 2000
              • 31864

              #7
              Re: should I wear dark glasses?

              Originally posted by Jim Ledger
              Check and see if anything else has gone missing.
              Like your generosity.

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              • Paul Pless
                pinko commie tree hugger
                • Oct 2003
                • 124802

                #8
                Re: should I wear dark glasses?

                Originally posted by Jim Ledger
                Check and see if anything else has gone missing.
                Like your screwdriver for instance. . .
                Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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                • Meli
                  Banned
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 7163

                  #9
                  Re: should I wear dark glasses?

                  Originally posted by Paul Pless
                  Like your screwdriver for instance. . .
                  Funny you should ask about that. I musta had some sort of premonition.
                  I asked him to make sure he left the screwdriver (something I would never normally say) cos it was my dads..
                  He gave it back before he took off.

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                  • genglandoh
                    Senior Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 10538

                    #10
                    Re: should I wear dark glasses?

                    I would not let this get you down.
                    There are always a few people who will take advantage of you but just think of all the other people who you helped.
                    "The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do." Captain Jack Sparrow

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                    • Meli
                      Banned
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7163

                      #11
                      Re: should I wear dark glasses?

                      Originally posted by genglandoh
                      I would not let this get you down.
                      There are always a few people who will take advantage of you but just think of all the other people who you helped.
                      yeah yeah, I'm the personification of the milk of human kindness.
                      However, being human not a god botherer, sometimes I'd like some back

                      this helps, give me enough crap back and I'll start laughing (In a dark, british humour sort of way)

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