The sphere home is getting a kitchen renovation. Mrs sphere lists the “old” (barely 2 years) $800 range on Craigslist, takes $150 just to get it gone, because the new appliances are on their way. To make room for the demo, things were reshuffled in the room adjacent to the kitchen, which serves as the kids’ playroom. Shuffling entailed moving the toy bin with 40" TV on top slightly out of its place, so that the side of the box and edge of the TV sticks maybe 3" into the hallway joining the playroom to the garage.
Guy comes in to get the stove, family in tow. She takes them through the garage, through the hallway, and sure enough, dude knocks the $500 TV over, shattering the screen. He offers, she doesn’t accept any compensation, sells the stove for the agreed price of $150.
Total value loss, roughly $1,000.
The kind of guy who buys a used kitchen range for his family’s use probably isn’t the kind of guy who has an extra $500 laying around, but I could be wrong. He left his phone number, just in case we reconsider.
I have a really long list of misadventures myself. I try to turn each one into it’s own adventure tale of quasi-hilarity. I’d like to think that occasionally someone avoids a fuck-up because of one of my adventure tales. So take heart. Some good may come of your loss yet.
Ask wifie why the hell she brought them through the hallway with the tv sticking out.
First, you ask, why was it sticking out? Because she moved it there. Unnecessarily so.
Second, I have no idea why. Think I should I ask?
She, in return, can ask why the hell you didn’t move the oven into the garage so she did not have to bring strangers into her home.
I’ve been working 15h days since the night I got back from our family vacation. I had no idea she listed the stove already and had a buyer. I was planning on moving it to the garage and listing it sometime thereafter.
Ask wifie why the hell she brought them through the hallway with the tv sticking out.
First, you ask, why was it sticking out? Because she moved it there. Unnecessarily so.
Second, I have no idea why. Think I should I ask?
She, in return, can ask why the hell you didn’t move the oven into the garage so she did not have to bring strangers into her home.
I’ve been working 15h days since the night I got back from our family vacation. I had no idea she listed the stove already and had a buyer. I was planning on moving it to the garage and listing it sometime thereafter.
Does she work? If so, tell her she owes you $1k. If not, set the default page on her computer to monster.com and tell her to start looking.
I would probably chalk it up as a life lesson learned and move on. What is your homeowner’s deductible?
What Thom said. Other than selling something for way less than it is worth - it isn’t like you’re likely to need to prevent this again in the future. Move on and don’t look back.
That being said. If you think you can milk it for a special sexual favor, then that’s worth a try. Otherwise, she probably feels bad about it.
Get a nice pint glass, put it in the freezer for a while, crack your favourite beer, pour it in to the glass, sit outside on a nice day and count your blessings.
I think this just gets filed in to the “shit happens” pile. Plus, next time you screw something up and your wife gets mad at you, you say “oh yeah? Well remember that time…”. That always goes over well.
The sphere home is getting a kitchen renovation. Mrs sphere lists the “old” (barely 2 years) $800 range on Craigslist, takes $150 just to get it gone, because the new appliances are on their way. To make room for the demo, things were reshuffled in the room adjacent to the kitchen, which serves as the kids’ playroom. Shuffling entailed moving the toy bin with 40" TV on top slightly out of its place, so that the side of the box and edge of the TV sticks maybe 3" into the hallway joining the playroom to the garage.
Guy comes in to get the stove, family in tow. She takes them through the garage, through the hallway, and sure enough, dude knocks the $500 TV over, shattering the screen. He offers, she doesn’t accept any compensation, sells the stove for the agreed price of $150.
Total value loss, roughly $1,000.
The kind of guy who buys a used kitchen range for his family’s use probably isn’t the kind of guy who has an extra $500 laying around, but I could be wrong. He left his phone number, just in case we reconsider.
Thanks for giving back!
Better than donating $$$$ to some charity who uses it for overhead anyway.
We had a very nice desk I bought at an estate sale maybe 10 years ago that we no longer needed as we were moving. Wife called Habitat for Humanity to donate, they said they would come pick it up. She let them know it was 1) heavy and 2) upstairs. Habitat sends a teenager and a man in his late 60’s to pick up the desk. Wife says she begged the two guys to call for more help knowing how heavy the desk was. They start down the stairs, lose their grip and the desk slides about 5 steps before it slams into the wall knocking holes in the drywall.
This same drywall had been repaired two days earlier, painted the day before as we readied the house to sell.
Get a nice pint glass, put it in the freezer for a while, crack your favourite beer, pour it in to the glass, sit outside on a nice day and count your blessings.
I think this just gets filed in to the “shit happens” pile. Plus, next time you screw something up and your wife gets mad at you, you say “oh yeah? Well remember that time…”. That always goes over well.
Yeah always throw what they did back in their face.
