 Comedy: April 10, 2024 Issue [#12495] |
This week: Feeling Foolish? Edited by: Ẃeβ࿚ẂỉԎḈĥmas  
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| A floor. I just had to mention to friends I needed someone to finish my floor. That's when I learned a thing or two about not repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. |
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Hello folks! Happy April. It's hard to believe my Florida time is coming close to an end and the trip back up North will soon begin.
I have touched upon some of the issues I've had to deal with during my winter to spring time as a snowbird. My handyman became very ill and can no longer finish the jobs he started. Friends have been trying to help out by giving me numbers of people they know who have done someone floors living near us. It wasn't so much give a number and say give a call, but in some cases, it's: "Meet me at my place and I'll introduce so and so to you. He's doing his own floors and they are beautiful." Or, I'll be over your place tomorrow with a guy who did my floors.I must say, I liked the quick and effortless idea of handing me a handyman to do the job. So it was a nice surprise.
Before the insistent ones with meet you there of meet me here friends at the clubhouse, there was the simple handing a card with the number to call the guy who recently finished this friend's floors and did a great job at a reasonable price and cleaned up the mess made at the end of the day. I was happy and thankful after talking to my friend and was prepared to call his guy once he finished a job he was working on.
In the meantime, I got the knock on the door. The "WebWitch, give me your floors and I'll make them perfect, again!"
I admit, this guy was quite knowledgeable about laying floors and would do ceramic tiles for me since there was still some uneven spots on the floor which would make vinyl tiles impractical unless a put another thinner sub floor down first. Great! Add another floor over the floor before putting down the floor. I don't think so.
Not only can he do floors, he can do kitchen cabinets, too! Good because most of mine were ripped out during the demolition stage with my other handyman while the dumpter was available to fill.
Fast forward: "Okay, WebWitch, when do you want this done?"
"before I leave in May."
"Oh, well, I do have a couple months of jobs to finish up first. And I prefer to work at my own pace, let's say through the summer? I must work alone so nobody's in the way."
I swear, I got hit with Deja Vu! No, no, a thousand times NO, my brain was screaming while I was smiling and nodding like a fool!
"And WW, that kitchen will be beautiful when I'm done. Although, I may need just a little knee surgery, but, I did get my shoulder surgery done and it healed perfectly. Stupid me, and expert and all, I did a job on it when I fell off my ladder while working on someone's roof."
  ... Not again! Still smiling and nodding. When will he leave so I can tell my pool room friend this won't do?
"WebWitch, here's my number. Give me a call and I'll drop by and measure the room and tell you what you need to order, and I'll be able to figure out a price for you. But I won't be home tomorrow. My wife's going in the hospital for surgery."
"Oh, I hope it's nothing too serious?"
"She's getting throat surgery. Her throat is closing up from her cancer and she can't eat anything until the surgery is done."
"Thank you, I'll call when I'm ready." 
A week later, another friend at the clubhouse told me to meet him at his place. His neighbor is a true handyman who just moved down from New Jersey, and is doing a beautiful job laying tile floors in his house. I felt a little better with this recommendation. Larry said I won't have to leave your home to get it done.
Next day I met the guy and his wife. His floor was coming along beautifully. I felt at ease that I could be home, not surrender my key for months while someone works at his own pace in between surgeries and cancer treatments for his wife. Plus the fact that he fell off a ladder doing someone's place.
This new guy, Ron, showed up the next morning with tape measure in hand to tell me exactly what materials I'd need to get the job done. He said it would take him about six days to get the job done.  Too good to be true. This guy must be too good to be true. It's just not how things roll with me and handymen.
He said he'd text me the cost of installation once he added up the square footage and would send me a text.
Well folks, you know when you watched shows on TV where a contract is being worked on and a deal is to be struck if the offer is accepted whereby both parties think they got a good deal? It's always on a slip of paper handed to the other person. The other person scribbles out a number and rewrites a different one, and it goes on until they shake hands? I hated that we the viewers never got a glimpse of how much it would be in case we wanted to use it as a measurement of the estimated cost of a job.
Later that day, I got the breakdown of the square footage and how that is marked up for cost of labor.  I had to take several minutes to process the cost, because it was way more than my friend number one's guy charged. And, he needed new subflooring put down first, and, did all his floors in every room.
I'm calling that guy. I would have gone with him anyway if helpful friends had not insisted on bringing a guy to my place or me to a guy's place to see his work. All this delay. I'll patiently wait until my return in autumn for this number one guy since he's currently doing a job at another's house.
And that's the foolishness would be if I didn't say fool me once... although it was not my original guy's fault he had a heart attack, brain aneurysms, and heart aneurysm, and now leukemia. No way was I going to let another handyman work alone in my house while I'm up North! The one who would be done in a week was charging New Jersey prices in Florida. That won't work well down here as he'll soon find out.
Okay, who needs a floor covering anyway? I could actually put wall to wall carpeting back in which would be cheaper than ceramic. BUT I HATE IT! That's why it got ripped out and this whole mess started.
It's a wrap for this April Comedy Newsletter.
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