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I cleared the snow off my driveway twice last night. The first time at 6:30pm , and the second time at 9:15pm. This morning, my neighbor 14 years old son used a snow blower to clear my driveway without asking me first. Should I pay him?

A little background about this 14 years boy: I asked him to mow my lawn a year ago since my regular lawn service wasn't showing up for some reason. I asked him how much he would charge me. He said that he would think about it and let me know after he finished. I didn't have a good feeling about this, but I agreed. I was surprised that he asked for $25 (without trimming the edges or cleaning up and my yard isn't very big). I offered him $20 instead. He wasn't happy about it, so I told him that I would not need his service anymore after that. Now I do have a regular lawn service to do my yard.
 
He did it w/o you asking you don't owe him anything but a snack or a drink.
 
Through him in your basement and only release him when it is snowing.
 
Maybe he's trying to make up for being greedy about the lawn. :9: Is he a nice kid?
 
My son would charge $25.00 and the lawns were large. He would edge, weed whip and blow the sidewalk. He would do this in the neighborhood and I would drop by on him to make sure he was doing a good job.

What a **** not being happy with $20.00....LOL


oh, and to answer your question...you did not ask him to do it...I would tell him what a great kid he is for helping out a neighbor and that you appreciate it...... For the $20.00 grass cutting...**only**. I think he still owes ya! LOL
 
mrsmom said:
Maybe he's trying to make up for being greedy about the lawn. :9: Is he a nice kid?
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I really don't know him very well. He seems to be a nice & quiet kid. He does the mowing in the summer for his parents, and he played with his friends a lot in the front yard.
 
I'd give him $10 and let him know to ask me if he wants to do anything before he does.
 
Tazznum1 said:
I'd give him $10 and let him know to ask me if he wants to do anything before he does.
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I was thinking that too...........give him a lil sumptn sumptn but tell him to ask next time.
 
My mother paid the neighbor guy $50 to clear off her driveway (VERY short) and sidewalks (corner house) :faint: !!! He didn't ask .... he just did it ..... my parents (dad is gone now :pout: ) have given him money often times for doing stuff like that ...... and then she calls him greedy :gah: And it was with a snowblower, NOT hand shoveling :gah: My sis said it probably took him 15 minutes! Ummmmm yeah, who wouldn't want an easy $200/hour job next door to their house ! :hb:

What makes me CRAZY though is

1) We have a HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEE driveway and she thinks her sidewalks and really short driveway is more than we have :surrender: ARE you KIDDING ME?!?!? :hb:


2) I called her specifically on Wednesday to say "I will be out there on Friday to shovel" and now she's pretending she didn't know who was gonna come help her or when :surrender:
OR that I even MENTIONED coming because of the snow :hb:
NO, it's not her mind..... I KNOW she KNOWS... she just expects us to shovel HERS befofe we shovel out of OURS! :gah:

Always saying stuff like that..... complaining cause no one comes to help, yet we call and offer to ALL the time.... course, when we get either there it's done OR she we're not doing it "right"

:gah: :gah: :gah:
 
i would totally just think he was being neighborly and thank him profusely. i would not start a money thing or it will never end. twenty bucks is a large amount of money for lawn mowing. not to be mean but there is now way in heck that i am paying anyone any more than 10 bucks to mow. honestly, how long did it take? otherwise i am going to start mowing lawns!!!! seriously! now i would consider paying a neighbor boy who asked if he could shovel a small amount or even this presumptous 4 yr old if he had shoveled. but he snowblew, he was probably just having fun. like a riding lawn mower fun.
 
linkin said:
i would totally just think he was being neighborly and thank him profusely. i would not start a money thing or it will never end. twenty bucks is a large amount of money for lawn mowing. not to be mean but there is now way in heck that i am paying anyone any more than 10 bucks to mow. honestly, how long did it take? otherwise i am going to start mowing lawns!!!! seriously! now i would consider paying a neighbor boy who asked if he could shovel a small amount or even this presumptous 4 yr old if he had shoveled. but he snowblew, he was probably just having fun. like a riding lawn mower fun.
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*14 yr old
 
cookiemom said:
My mother paid the neighbor guy $50 to clear off her driveway (VERY short) and sidewalks (corner house) :faint: !!! He didn't ask .... he just did it ..... my parents (dad is gone now :pout: ) have given him money often times for doing stuff like that ...... and then she calls him greedy :gah: And it was with a snowblower, NOT hand shoveling :gah: My sis said it probably took him 15 minutes! Ummmmm yeah, who wouldn't want an easy $200/hour job next door to their house ! :hb:

What makes me CRAZY though is

1) We have a HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEE driveway and she thinks her sidewalks and really short driveway is more than we have :surrender: ARE you KIDDING ME?!?!? :hb:


2) I called her specifically on Wednesday to say "I will be out there on Friday to shovel" and now she's pretending she didn't know who was gonna come help her or when :surrender:
OR that I even MENTIONED coming because of the snow :hb:
NO, it's not her mind..... I KNOW she KNOWS... she just expects us to shovel HERS befofe we shovel out of OURS! :gah:

Always saying stuff like that..... complaining cause no one comes to help, yet we call and offer to ALL the time.... course, when we get either there it's done OR she we're not doing it "right"

:gah: :gah: :gah:
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what kinda creep takes 50 bucks for such a thing????? or was she just being very kind to him? hoping she was
 
I told her to stop giving him so much!!! :hb:
Course, he's gonna keep doing it and YES, he keeps taking the NICE EASY money! SHAME on HIM! no, he's not an impoverished kinda guy... I told her I wouldn't be taking money from an elderly neighbor ! We are GONNA get there to do it.... we always get there to help!
She just wants it done IMMEDIATELY and that's impossible :hb:
 
Give the kid $5 and wear an off the shoulder top so her can see your bra strap.








He'll be happy. :lol:
 
cookiemom said:
I told her to stop giving him so much!!! :hb:
Course, he's gonna keep doing it and YES, he keeps taking the NICE EASY money! SHAME on HIM! no, he's not an impoverished kinda guy... I told her I wouldn't be taking money from an elderly neighbor ! We are GONNA get there to do it.... we always get there to help!
She just wants it done IMMEDIATELY and that's impossible :hb:
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i think i would thank him in person, and then thank him to never do so for your mother again. i would let my body language and face hopefully convey the irritated attitude i had at him. hopefully evoking a bit o shame in his conscience dept. all the while trying to hold a pleasant demeanor. i would be really unhappy. sorry.
 
I would thank him next time you see him and that's it. My dh will occasionally snowblow the neighbor's driveway and sidewalks if he has extra time and would NEVER take money for it. We would not expect them to offer it either.
 
linkin said:
i think i would thank him in person, and then thank him to never do so for your mother again. i would let my body language and face hopefully convey the irritated attitude i had at him. hopefully evoking a bit o shame in his conscience dept. all the while trying to hold a pleasant demeanor. i would be really unhappy. sorry.
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I AM really unhappy..... My mother isn't the ummmmmm, :quotes:friendliest:quotes: little old lady on the block.... always finding something wrong with the neighbors, cause they're not "perfect" like her, kwim?!?! and telling them what they're doing wrong (in HER opinion) to their faces... often, they're not speaking to each other, but I guess he got over that, huh? :tap:.... She would be furious if I told the neighbor to never shovel for her again, of course, I do nothing right in her opinion anyway..... but frankly, I'd feel better if he was at least WILLING to help her out if she really, really needed and we couldn't get there fast, even if he feels the need to take $$$ :surrender: I told her repeatedly that was way too much... hopefully, she'll give him less if it happens again..... sigh
 
I do not think you owe him anything. You pay him and he will just continue doing it without asking and expect to get paid.
I would thank him for his kindness and move on. If he was looking for money he will not be so kind to help you out again.
If he is being kind then he will do it again because he is being kind.

My DH uses a snowblower. He does our driveway/sidewalks, each neighbor on the side of us and one directly behind us (around the corner.) He does it to be nice and because we have a snowblower. He never expects anything and would never take anything either. He does it without asking too.
 
Maybe if you hadn't already done so much of it yourself, buffalo, but you had already shoveled twice by 9:15 ! So he's gotta know you're not gonna want to pay someone to do a job you've already more than half done, right? I'm gotta say that he's doing it to be nice and not expecting any money, but if you want to offer him a little something and tell him to ask next time, i think that works too :)
 
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