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[waterspyder]

I kicked ass in work bowling yesterday. They have to tally it up, but they're pretty sure I took high score with a 142. Not bad for bowling while chasing James and holding a beer. Holding beer and a baby is tricky I tell you. James had fun and not because of the beer.


 Why are there Drama Llamas? I have 3 in my life right now and it's causing me stress I don't need.

One of them is at work and she does things which I consider unforgiveable in a team environment. Just because it's a team effort, does not mean that you get to claim the credit. I have to speak with my Manager... still trying to figure out which items to actually raise with her. The Work Llama is bad news.

We also need new childcare....anyone have a lead? The Daycare Llama, also bad news. I'm really hoping her doctor sets her straight next week. I normally don't get involved in other people's parenting, but her son's ribs are sticking out and he's 11 months old. He eats well, but she refuses his bottles, and will make him wait 90 minutes for dinner when he's already hungry and he doesn't have another mommy to argue with her about why she needs to feed him more. 

And finally, the Home Llama. Josh had hired him to shovel our driveway... and then the letters through the mailbox started. I paid him and told him never to contact us again and still another letter. He felt compelled to write what he thought about our house. That pisses me off. Yes, the house is not cleaned to my liking, but with a baby and two parents working full time, it's tricky. I'm not going to give up my evenings to clean my foyer because some douchebag neighbour likes tresspassing and looking in the window. I hung curtains down there last night. He also criticized how cluttered my garage was. The garage full of my dead grandmother's things that I haven't had a chance to sort because I'm busy being a parent and it's been so cold? Don't fucking judge people. I'm not perfect, and neither is anyone else. We hope he stops his letter writing campaign, but we're going to be calling the cops next time, because he obviously has refused to respect our wishes, and I don't want this to escalate considering he knows where we live. The kicker was he signed the last letter "The best fucking neighbour you had". WTF? Whatever.

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[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the bowling, and sympathies on the rest...

[chizzer.livejournal.com]

What you need to do is have James hold the beer as you hold James. Then you can bowl with the other hand.

[pezchica.livejournal.com]

yikes on the drama! *boo* Especially on the nosy neighbor, yuck! Seriously.

[corradus.livejournal.com]

You hired this guy to shovel your driveway and he looks in your window, comments on your garage and sends you letters on how best to conduct yourself? Where do these people come from?

Seriously. Call the cops....

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

If he so much as heckles Josh on his way to work (since Josh literally has to walk past his house since we live on a cul-de-sac), or sends another letter, that is our intent to get the police involved, because it's harassment pure and simple.

Harassment is defined as attention that is unwanted, and the person reasonably ought to know the attention is unwelcome. We gave him a letter saying "Do not contact us again in the future" and he's already disrespected that desire once. I don't fuck around with these things, because if he doesn't stop after getting the last word in, then he never will without intervention.

[gabriel-le.livejournal.com]

did he ever shovel the driveway or return the money?

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

He contends we owe him money. Basically he shoveled our driveway a few times in exchange for our shovel, then without talking to us, he just kept shoveling, then one day we got a note saying we owed him $80 and we were like "What?" and spoke to him, and he said he'd made a mistake (in his words "was I drunk?") and it was %50 and that would be good until the end of the month and we'd discuss again. Cool. Two days later, still mid-month, he sticks a letter through the door on a Thursday saying "Where's my $60? I spoke to your husband and he said you already paid me...blahblahblah" What? Josh gets home, he says the guy confronted him on the way from work and Josh told him that he'd have to talk to me because I handle the money. So I decide at this point, this guy is drama I don't need. So then two days later, he rings the doorbell at 10am while we're trying to leave to get James to swimming lessons. I open the door and tell him now is not a good time, but wait while I get his cheque. Well, he doesn't want a cheque, he wants me to drop cash through his mailslot. Umm.. not happening. Never happening. I tell him to stop shoveling services immediately. He storms off. A few days later I dropped off the cheque in his mailsot along with a letter explaining that he is not to contact us in the future, and if he chooses not to cash the cheque, that is his prerogative, but that is the only payment he will be seeing from us. And yesterday he left another letter saying he's going to cash the cheque, but we really owe him $110 (explaining crap like "Well, it was $50, then $10 for the stuff I had just shoveled, then another $50 for the rest of the month" Keeping in mind, it hadn't snowed since our talk either, but that's beside the point. He was also so kind to point out how disgusting he found our house, as well that he was the best neighbour we had. Uh huh. Good neighbours throw stones in glass houses. Check.

So basically, I concur that he did $50 worth of work (in addition to $30 in barter for the shovel, which was brand new) and that was the amount I had agreed to, and that is what I paid him for. I don't withhold money from people when there was work performed, no matter how difficult or painful they become. He does however have a restraining order coming his way if he thinks I'm going to pay him another dime.

[corradus.livejournal.com]

That's true. Let's hope the justice system backs you up.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Lack of contract to support his claims to additional money, and a stack of letters demonstrating a lack of professionalism, and a high level of harassment.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Ugg, sympathies wrt the drama inducing idiots.