Yesterday, a woman rang our doorbell to ask if we wanted our curb painted with our address number. Ours is faded badly and needed to be updated. I almost said no. Then, I figured it's a legitimate hustle for someone needing extra money and since we hadn't done it - why not?
I was leaving for a meeting at church so I volunteered to pay her in advance. When I returned home, the curb wasn't painted. Sigh. I'd been played.
I almost took to social media to rant last night. (That's what it's for, right?) For some reason, I thought better of it and shrugged the lost money as a lesson learned. "They'll get theirs for stealing my money," I thought self-righteously.
Tonight, when we got home, we found her husband painting the curb. Turns out, he didn't have the burnt orange paint I'd requested in his van, so he had to get it and come back today. He had gotten off schedule and promised to finish the following day.
Lessons learned: Patience is a virtue; Judgment is not.
I was leaving for a meeting at church so I volunteered to pay her in advance. When I returned home, the curb wasn't painted. Sigh. I'd been played.
I almost took to social media to rant last night. (That's what it's for, right?) For some reason, I thought better of it and shrugged the lost money as a lesson learned. "They'll get theirs for stealing my money," I thought self-righteously.
Tonight, when we got home, we found her husband painting the curb. Turns out, he didn't have the burnt orange paint I'd requested in his van, so he had to get it and come back today. He had gotten off schedule and promised to finish the following day.
Lessons learned: Patience is a virtue; Judgment is not.
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