Lucky me...... Not!!

[blades]

So I had some steel roof sheeting for sale, guy calls me, asks the colour and I tell him it's forest green.... I also gave him the website where you can see the colour... He asks if I would accept £20 less as he is an hour away.... I explain that I have 4 people interested and I am already selling at half price so no I would not reduce it further. He drives to me and arrives without a trailer; then he tells me that I should have advised him that it was the wrong shade of forest green.... Then he asks if I would drop the price by £20... I say no again and he launches into a 'I cannot believe that you let me drive all that way for the wrong colour and now you won't even reduce the price'.... Using every tolerant bone in my body I just smiled and said goodbye.

 

I called the second interested party and explained what had happened and that the steel was for still for sale... He was delighted, I'll hook up my trailer and be with you in an hour.... True to his word he arrives after 50 mins with cash, I show him the goods and he loves the shade of forest green

We load all 20 sheets on his trailer and we notice he has a flat..... Trailer gets jacked up, wheel off, trip to tyre centre, puncture fixed

He starts to drive out of my field and gets about 30 metres..... And then.... The other wheel disintegrates.... He cannot hear me calling out to stop.... The tyre rips off and the twisted hub digs itself down into deep mud

 

Thank goodness this was the last day of 2012 and not the first day of 2013

 

On reflection I'm laughing but I'm sure that during it all I was speaking fluent French

 

Happy New year to you all on Arbtalk.... And thank you for all the great advice you have offered me..... Cheers everyone

Edited December 31, 2012 by blades

[Guss109]

Sounds like a great day to challenge your patience. Crack open a dram and look forward to the new year