life as you know is like that some give some take you new all along what a %&^%$£*& he was ,didnt stop you being a good kind considerate thoughfull caring bloke which is more than can be said of $$$£%$&^*%$ next door
P.S take the can back around and ask him to fill the can up? thankyou and remind him he can call on you anytime heeeeeeeheeeeeeeheeeeeeeee then make excuse when next he calls just being a good neighbour ?
-- Edited by Lost on Tuesday 17th of July 2012 10:29:01 AM
I couldn't take it any longer. Even though a more universally disliked person I've yet to meet and a bloke with whom I rarely exchange even a greeting these days, I just had to help my neighbour start his classic Kawasaki Z1 that had been off the road for the winter.
As it happened I was out in the garden servicing my lawn mower and had a can of carb cleaner to hand so took it over suggesting it could be jets gummed up by the residue from evaporated fuel and a that bit of magic spray may help. We removed the air cleaner and I sprayed while he turned it over. It fired and, provided I kept spraying, it kept running.
So, it was fuel but I dismissed a blocked float jet as with four carbs he'd be pretty unlucky for them all to be blocked. Even so I unscrewed the drain from one of the float bowls to check for contamination and blow some cleaner up into the jets but... nothing came out! Tried the other three and still nothing - despite his assurances to the contrary he was out of petrol!
OK, no problem, I had a can of five litres I'd just bought for the lawn mower (see above) and said I'd let him have it if he'd replace it. He said he would.
Five litres of Shell's finest and the bike started and ran perfectly.
I gathered my tools and went to walk away when he picked up my now empty petrol can and said: "Don't you want this?" to which I replied "No, you're going to refill it aren't you". Half an hour later he knocked on the door to say he'd filled the can and had left it outside my workshop.
When I eventually got around to looking at it I found it only half full! The mean bar steward didn't even think my help was worth reimbursing me my full costs let alone a token of appreciation (like the bottle of wine another neighbour once thanked me with for starting his car in an identical situation). It's not that he's poor as he owns three houses in my road plus a number of others in the town. No, he's just very, very mean - which is undoubtedly the secret of his success.
1/ Pour the half can over the kwacker, light and run.....
2/ Pour the half can over his lawn, or any nice or expensive looking shrub.
3/ Put some sugar in it, leave it on his door step and tell him he can keep it...
4/ Roll a dog turd in some newspaper, put it on his door step in the late evening bang on his door and light the paper. (he opens the door in his slippers stamps on the paper to put it out and gots hot dog crap all over his feet/door step) - good one to do if next door cat craps in your garden I have found (just roll up the cat crap instead of the doggy do).
5/ Vomit in a freezer bag, freeze and once frozen take round as a 'gift'. Say you made a huge pot of stew, have to much and it won't fit in your freezer and thought he would like some - wait till he warms that in a pan (one of my personal faves).
6/ Borrow my Harley and go for early morning rides on a Sunday.
7/ Super glue in his door locks.
8/ Stink bomb under door mat.
9/ Get a nice looking lady frend to go and knock on his door and ask (his wife) if he's coming 'out to play' again next week.
10/ Ask a good looking male frend to do the same.
There are a few suggestions to be going on with
The house next door to me is for sale as it happens
-- Edited by jt on Tuesday 17th of July 2012 06:55:48 PM
Gotta say jt im laughing my a** on that sadly i can remember doing some of these things many moons ago. And i totaly agree go for it revenge will always be sweet, today, tomorrow or 20 years time
Had a similar thing happen to me John. A mobile mechanic who lived in my road had parked his transit van up and gone in doors and I was out working on one of my vehicles when I noticed I couldn't look through the back windows of his van into the front and realised it was full of black smoke rushed over with a fire extinguisher and tried to open the back doors but locked so ran to the guys door and got him to open the back doors as it was now well alight and put the fire out with the extinguisher turned out a spanner had fallen down onto a battery and shorted it out and caught some paper towels and rags on fire and had spread to the shelfing he said thanks for helping but didn't even offer to refill the fire extinguisher. i hope that i would do this again if it happen as if we are not prepared to help others we would all end up like these people
Was driving up by the White Horse (Newton Pop - Exeter) a few weeks back and it was 'hooning it down'.
Chap pushing a little jap cruser up the road so i stopped to see if he was OK, he was out of fuel. I whipped to the garage up the road bought a cheap fuel can and 5l of petrol, drove back down and filled his bike up....
Thanks mate he said as his fired it up and rode away
(one of my personal faves).
but didn't even offer to refill the fire extinguisher
. i hope that i would do this again if it happen as if we are not prepared to help others we would all end up like these people
