While we are on a rant...

[Countryford]

Just recently I had an expierence about dealing with "friends". It was an older lady and her daughter. I worked with the one for a while and found out that we lived in the same trailer park at the time.That was about 8 years ago. In that time, they moved several times and as a good friend I helped them load and unload the truck. The gal gave me a desk and did give me some money for helping. One place they were renting had some electrical issues, and I ended up getting a call to help them out late one evening when the power went out. The wiring for the whole place needed a lot of work, but I fixed it so they would have power that night, and went back in the daytime and did some extra work. Never asked for any money. We would have them over for dinner and they would have us over for dinner at times as well.
Well a couple months ago we went over to their house for supper. While we were there the daughter had this stereo from the 90's, the type that has the radio, phonograph, and cassette player all in one. Anyways the cassette player wasn't working, and she wanted to know if I would fix it. I looked at it while I was there and it appeared it just needed new belts. She gave me the manual to use as a refrence to order the parts. Couple days later I found a place online that had the belts for about $10. Just got done ordering them when she called up asking about it. I told her it would be $30 for the parts and labor(mind you I was also going to drive to her house to repair it which is about 25 miles from me). She then started saying, how I owed them for that desk she "gave" me(I had gotten rid of it about a year prior) and owed her for some other thing(I can't remember what). I hung up on her. She called back later and wanted me to return the manual to her. I told her if she wanted it she could drive to me and pick it up. She ended up mailing me a prepaid envelope to mail it back to her.