waterinthefuel
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My father, back in 2008, bought a little tractor. It was his lifelong dream to finally be able to buy one. It wasn't in good shape and so me and my uncle spent weeks on that thing fixing it up while my dad was at work. While my father paid for the parts, he put in, for the most part, zero labor. On the weekends he would spend a little time helping us, 2 hours at most, nothing compared to what we had done all week. (eventually he did a little bit of painting to it, but that was after everything else was done and was a few months later) He would get home from work to see me and my uncle absolutely dead dog tired from working on it all day. He eventually paid me a tiny bit for the work I did, it averaged out to be like $1.25 an hour. Since I didn't ask to be paid, I figured something is better than nothing. The tractor looks brand new, is mechanically perfect now and ready to use. I think it's been used twice since he got it, other than that, it's a garage queen.
Fast forward to now. He found a tractor with a backhoe on ebay. Now he wants to sell the one that me and my uncle put all that time and effort into. He is surprised that I'm not enthusiastic about it. In fact I told him that he would be working on this one by himself, that I was not going to donate weeks of my life fixing up another one. Supposedly this one is in good mechanical condition and only needs paint, but as we all know, this probably won't be the case. (when he told my uncle he was selling it, the first words out of his mouth were "wow, we put all that work into it", so he wasn't thrilled either) Dad said he can't believe I'm acting this way. I told him you were at work, sitting at a desk in the air conditioning while me and his brother put in damn near 8 hours a day in hot sun for about 3 weeks to get the tractor in perfect mechanical shape. (we don't have anywhere to work on it but out in the back yard) We took everything apart, greased it, lubed it, painted it, everything. My dad gets home from work to see a tractor that actually works now. He didn't put in all the time and effort to fix it, just the money to buy the parts.
Do you think I'm justified to feel the way I do? When he got it it was his "dream" to own a little tractor so he would get mad if you even thought about him selling it. He would "never" get rid of it. That's why I decided to help him with it. Basically a son fixing up his fathers dream tractor. At the time, I kinda felt blessed to be able to help do that. Well, low and behold, he found one with the backhoe attachment he wants so he's selling the first one without a second thought. I'm insulted by this, someone who can't appreciate the work that went into this tractor will buy it and dog it out. I won't get a penny of the sale of the tractor. I feel like I'm being screwed.
What do you guys think?
Fast forward to now. He found a tractor with a backhoe on ebay. Now he wants to sell the one that me and my uncle put all that time and effort into. He is surprised that I'm not enthusiastic about it. In fact I told him that he would be working on this one by himself, that I was not going to donate weeks of my life fixing up another one. Supposedly this one is in good mechanical condition and only needs paint, but as we all know, this probably won't be the case. (when he told my uncle he was selling it, the first words out of his mouth were "wow, we put all that work into it", so he wasn't thrilled either) Dad said he can't believe I'm acting this way. I told him you were at work, sitting at a desk in the air conditioning while me and his brother put in damn near 8 hours a day in hot sun for about 3 weeks to get the tractor in perfect mechanical shape. (we don't have anywhere to work on it but out in the back yard) We took everything apart, greased it, lubed it, painted it, everything. My dad gets home from work to see a tractor that actually works now. He didn't put in all the time and effort to fix it, just the money to buy the parts.
Do you think I'm justified to feel the way I do? When he got it it was his "dream" to own a little tractor so he would get mad if you even thought about him selling it. He would "never" get rid of it. That's why I decided to help him with it. Basically a son fixing up his fathers dream tractor. At the time, I kinda felt blessed to be able to help do that. Well, low and behold, he found one with the backhoe attachment he wants so he's selling the first one without a second thought. I'm insulted by this, someone who can't appreciate the work that went into this tractor will buy it and dog it out. I won't get a penny of the sale of the tractor. I feel like I'm being screwed.
What do you guys think?
