How I weaned my neighbor's tool to ask: a life hack from freeloaders

Helping a neighbor is sacred. But sometimes it happens that a person takes help for granted and a problem grows out of it. So it happened for the user of our portal Dmitry. For a long time he lent his neighbor a different tool, until the critical moment came. How the problem was resolved - read on.

About the neighbor

Two years ago I moved into a new house. The area is fresh, decent neighbors, alcoholics and drug addicts are not observed. The family on the right is respectable and friendly. We met - people, at first glance, are simple and without oddities.

A man works as a Gazelle driver at some enterprise, and sometimes he taxi in the evenings and on weekends. His wife is at home with two small children. In general, an ordinary family.

Problem

Once a neighbor came to me and asked for a grinder for a couple of hours. He said that he would buy discs. Well, I'm not sorry - I gave it. Then it began: then a screwdriver, then welding, then a jigsaw, then a circular. He has nothing but a screwdriver in the car! Every weekend he did something with my instrument. And not only at home, but also at my mother.

I have a lot of all kinds of inventory, I make something for them at home, and sometimes I earn money. I have a habit from my grandfather: everything should be different in the household. I've been buying this tool for years; I use it carefully.

For example, I have a chainsaw - almost new. For four years I have used it twenty times - no more. Once a neighbor asked for a chainsaw, went to my mother and sawed a few cubic meters of firewood there for a bathhouse. I returned a whole one, but the chain was dull, the tire was scratched, the saw was covered in oil and sawdust.

Once I took a trimmer, again went with it to my mother and mowed several hundred hectares of weeds there. He returned the instrument intact, but he worked with it from the heart. Again, what kind of gasoline and what kind of oil he poured into it is not known. After him, the trimmer began to start badly.

In general, he got me, I wanted to send him at the next meeting and express everything. What a boor, I'm not buying everything for him! Only my wife would not let me conflict with him. He says: "Olya (his wife) and I made good friends, don't swear, don't ruin relations with neighbors, please." I listened and began to look for another way out.

Exit

A friend of mine suggested one trick. He has a huge cargo trailer, which stands at the base. In general, since there is nothing to take from a neighbor, I decided to ask him for other help - to put a trailer for a few days.

I went up to my neighbor and said: “Nikolay, here I am constantly helping you out, help me too. A friend of mine here bought a trailer nearby, asked them to put it in my yard so that I could watch it, but I was going to lay out the tiles in front of the gate. Let the trailer stand next to you for three days while the documents are being prepared. Will you help out? "

The neighbor nodded approvingly. In the evening we drove the trailer and put it right next to the gate. They say that closer to the lantern is safer. Naturally, the neighbor could not drive his car into the yard for three days. It began to annoy him.

Three days passed, Nikolai came to find out when the trailer would be taken away. But I report that a friend's tractor has broken down and the trailer will stand for another three or four days. The neighbor grimaced but said nothing. I’m looking after him: he is nervous, he goes out at night, checks the car. And his wife also saws him: you can't walk or drive near the house - you need to jump through the puddles in order to come to the gate.

Three more days passed, the neighbor was already complaining: "Well, when will your friend pick up the trailer ?!" I tell him that he hasn't made the car yet, let the trailer stand by the end of the month. And he added: "Nikolay, I have not refused you anything for a year, be patient for another week!"

Well, after these words, he showed his true face. He began to scare me with the police and gave a time limit until the evening so that the trailer was removed. I asked him: “Where are you going to get the instrument? mothers too? " And he replies: "Yes, I don't need your tool anymore, just take away the trailer!" Well that's what I wanted hear.

Output

This freeloader doesn't come up to me anymore, but our wives keep in touch anyway. This is the first thing. And second, he fell in my eyes, not me in his. If I refused him, then I would be known as the guilty miser, but he remained white and fluffy. My friend's trick worked!

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