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Weird Payments

#1

lawn mower fanatic

lawn mower fanatic

What are some weird things you have gotten when you were paid? Once I've gotten $5 in dimes, another time a rootbeer float, and lastly some cookies (it is always with the right amount of cash they owe me). :licking:


#2

reynoldston

reynoldston

Repaired a ATV and charged 25 dollars. Guy gave me a 20 bill and a bottle of tire slim for the other 5 dollars. I gave him back his tire slim and told next time we talk give me my 5 dollars. I have never seen the customer since and really don't want to. To jip me out of 5 dollars I think is low and don't want that type of customer.


#3

Sprinkler Buddy

Sprinkler Buddy

One of my customers just left some homemade cookies in my truck. lol Not for payment, just a thank you. They gave me a raise also few months ago for the second time. I love customers like that, nice to know your work is appreciated.


#4

metz12

metz12

i do one guys lawn and he works on my jeep for free! i help him but he recently payed for my new water pump and installed it because i havent needed his help for a while!


#5

TaskForceLawnCare

TaskForceLawnCare

I've had a customer give me and my guys a beer one time on a landscape job. It was hotter then a burnt boot that day, and hey i own the business so we drank our 1 beer a piece and got to work. I've been given lemonade and homemade bread before to, nothing as cool as a beer.


#6

exotion

exotion

One guy I mowed for half an hour I charged him 25 dollars he also gave me a shoebox told me to go pick as many cherrys as I wanted so I filled it up. When I got back he gave me a cigarette box full of weed :) I don't smoke it but my wife enjoyed it lol this was before I was a real business and I would never accept this now. :)


#7

BHLC

BHLC

Corn and beets from an old timer I've been mowing for, for years. It was a "bonus" as he called it


#8

M

mowerman05

I had a elderly lady that had bad eyes and when I went to collect she was out of checks so she wrote me a deposit ticket from her check book and didn't know the difference. I called a family member and they started helping her a little more and also got me a normal check.


#9

chobbs1957

chobbs1957

I'm always ready for some dumplings and eggs. Just sayin'

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#10

exotion

exotion

Anyone get offered sex yet? I did once she was cute to but I stayed loyal to my wife :)


#11

okiepc

okiepc

exotion said:
Anyone get offered sex yet? I did once she was cute to but I stayed loyal to my wife :)
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Good thinking on your part :thumbsup::thumbsup::laughing:


#12

M

mudcat

I recently tilled up a small garden plot around 6 ft wide and 25ft long for an elderly lady. She asked me if $10 was enough and I kinda felt sorry for her and said..well..uh..I guess it be ok. When I was going home she gave me a pint jar of her sauerkraut she made from cabbages out of her garden and 5 cinnamon rolls she just baked. Just curious..what is a tilling job like this really worth. Had to load up a Troy Bilt tiller and drive to her house which is about a mile.


#13

BHLC

BHLC

"mudcat said:
Just curious..what is a tilling job like this really worth. Had to load up a Troy Bilt tiller and drive to her house which is about a mile.
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I get $75 an hour min. hour, but I'm also using a 34hp Kabota with a 5' tiller.


#14

R

Rivets

Mudcat, if you drove off with a good feeling in your gut, what you charged was exactly right. Sometimes charging less gets you more than money in your pocket. My rate used to be $60/ hr, but since most of my jobs are repeat and for people over 65, most today are bartered plus parts.


#15

Fish

Fish

exotion said:
Anyone get offered sex yet? I did once she was cute to but I stayed loyal to my wife :)
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What is her address?


#16

Carscw

Carscw

mudcat said:
I recently tilled up a small garden plot around 6 ft wide and 25ft long for an elderly lady. She asked me if $10 was enough and I kinda felt sorry for her and said..well..uh..I guess it be ok. When I was going home she gave me a pint jar of her sauerkraut she made from cabbages out of her garden and 5 cinnamon rolls she just baked. Just curious..what is a tilling job like this really worth. Had to load up a Troy Bilt tiller and drive to her house which is about a mile.
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I think you got good pay for the job. You made a old lady smile and felt good about your self.
Now you can not make a living like this but it's a nice thing to do once and a while.

For a area that small I would charge $50 or some home made cinnamon rolls.

(( cowboy up and get over it ))


#17

Lawnboy18

Lawnboy18

exotion said:
Anyone get offered sex yet? I did once she was cute to but I stayed loyal to my wife :)
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The day that happens to me, I will really wonder in what world we live in!

I did some weeding, charged 50$ and they gave me an old Lawn-Boy and a 15$ check! The mower runs pretty good!

I also am allowed to eat as much raspberries as I want at one of my client's house. Appart from that, it is always checks and cash. No sex yet.


#18

Fish

Fish

Carscw said:
I think you got good pay for the job. You made a old lady smile and felt good about your self.
Now you can not make a living like this but it's a nice thing to do once and a while.

(( cowboy up and get over it ))
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No!! Not her address!!!!!


#19

Carscw

Carscw

Fish said:
No!! Not her address!!!!!
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(( cowboy up and get over it ))


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