Re: gave boat away and guy wants money back!
It just got better, the idiot that took the boat came by today while I was outside and tells me that he really didn't want the boat, what he'd rather have is a lawn tractor. He then proposed a trade of the boat for my garden tractor.
I was dumbfounded at the request. My first reply was "How long has it been since they let you out?" I made it real clear that if I wanted to give away my garden tractor, I'd have listed a free garden tractor not a boat.
He wasn't the least bit insulted, he just couldn't figure out why I wouldn't trade him. I told the guy that if I wanted that boat I'd have kept it, if he don't like it or if he felt he wasn't capable of fixing it, to just give it away. He then tells me he no longer has the boat, he gave or traded it to some other guy that don't want it either. He then tells me that guy has a boat that he wants and can trade a lawn mower for. I asked him what he figured that all has to do with me and his reply is that I had a garden tractor he could trade for this other boat.
I asked him how he figured a $2100 garden tractor equals a free boat and his reply was that the boat could be worth more if all restored. I told him to restore and we'd talk then. This of course from a guy that took a freebie boat to a marina to get fixed and didn't feel he should pay.
I told the guy that I have no plans of getting rid of my tractor, I don't want the boat back and really had no interest in doing any business with him after last weeks conversation when he implied that I was responsible for the bill at the supposed marina. After I made it real clear the tractor wasn't for sale or trade, he then asks what else I had to trade for the boat.
I pretty much think he just don't play with a full deck of cards or he's hoping to get something else for nothing. For all I know he took the boat down to the river and tried to float it without a plug and sank it. Either way it don't matter to me. The boat had out of state numbers on it and hadn't been registered in over 30 years. For all I know, the boat may be at a marina being held in lieu of payment or at the bottom of a lake or river somewhere.
I really don't care what he did with it. I was a boat with a lot of potential but certainly not worth all this aggravation. Although it is somehow strangely entertaining in an odd way. The terminally stupid can be pretty funny to observe at times. I just wish he'd find someplace else to be entertaining now.
When I asked him why he didn't just fix the boat up himself, he said he didn't have any money and couldn't afford a motor for it. I almost told him to just take two broomsticks and a bed sheet and only go out on windy days but I somehow figured he might take me seriously and go out and get himself or maybe someone else killed or drowned. I just pictured it making the 11 o'clock news, "Boater lost at sea".
Though for not having any money, he was driving a fairly new small SUV.
I almost asked him if he'd swap the car he was driving for the contents of my trash can at the curb but I really didn't think he'd get it.
This time though I did take down his license plate number just in case.
After about an hour or so of him following me around the yard as I cut the grass, with him shouting over the tractor motor, I pretty much got fed up with the dumb banter.
My final words to him today were that if he really wanted to get rid of that boat I'd take it back for a fee of $200. He didn't flinch at that, I don't think what I said totally sank in. When he left I told him to make sure if he brought the boat back to bring cash, I don't take checks. I figured that if he's dumb enough to go for that one, it will cover the dump fees and all my aggravation. Maybe if he thinks returning will cost him money, he'll stay away.
He made no mention this time about any charges owed, he never even mentioned the last story at all.
