Is it so hard to do a decent job ?
Couple of weekends ago, I asked the guys who do landscaping for my next door neighbor, if they want to do a small job for me. The job was to haul the fill dirt sitting on my driveway to the flowerbeds in the back yard. They said if I have a wheelbarrow and shovels, they'd do it. I had shovels and went to Lowes and got a wheelbarrow and came back. Two dudes, around the age of 20, worked about 4 hours and the job was done. Or so I thought. I paid them $200 and they went. Last week when I am moving grass, I noticed a hole around 18 inches in diameter, around one of the sprinkler risers. Could not understand what it was and cursed the ground squirrels, even though it did not look like their job.Come sunday, I am sitting on the back yard deck and the sprinklers in the flower beds came on. Curiously, the one with a hole around it was not sprinkling at all. I went to check what the problem was. As soon as I touched the riser, it came off. The only thing holding it in place was the dirt around it. Otherwise the jerks who moved the dirt, broke the god damn sprinkler and did not bother to tell me.
Now, I need to flush out the sand out of the whole sprinkler section connected to this pipe, as I am sure the fine, sandy fill dirt has reached god knows where. I hate people who think that they can scam their ways through life.
posted by Legal Alien @ 11:51 AM
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