Odd Neighbours

Caught my Dad's next neighbour of 30 odd years trying to rip off my elderly father for a small tree he got cut down on my Dad's property, some of the branches were extending over to his garden. When I mean small I could have cut it down myself, approx 9 foot I'd say. But he took it upon himself to get his gardener that was cutting his trees at the time to cut it down.

I came home to visit my dad one weekend near Christmas, because he was sick at the time. Dad sent me into the neighbour because he was demanding 250 euro for the cutting of the tree.
I seen red. The same neighbour, let's call him Michael, had ripped me off years previous for a nixer i done for him. I never got paid for that nixer.

I knocked on his door around lunchtime one Sunday. When he answered I told him I was sent to pay him for the tree that was cut. Asked him how much it was, he said 250. I said could I get the number for his gardener and I'd pay his gardener direct. At this point he got extremely irrate and said he had paid him already, and that it was nothing to do with me and that the matter was between him and my father. I said it was everything to do with me because I was sent to pay for it and my father was too sick to deal with it. I asked how much the entire job was, for the cutting of all his trees. His entire garden was cut and trimmed, and for our one tree. He said €450. At this point I lost it. He was charging my Dad the bulk of the bill for 1 tree. I told him never to f&@#g grace our doorstep again, that he wouldn't be getting paid and slammed his own door in his own face.

He subsequently went crying and moaning to my elderly and very sick father about what a nasty son he had. It caused an awful rift for months between me and my Dad. Needles to say, I never paid him because I was in control of my Dad's finances from that point, because he became too ill.

Imagine, trying to rip off your elderly sick neighbour!

Michael, said neighbour, is a pious man, the attends mass everyday!