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My friend told today a story that happened to their family a couple of months ago. They live in an old five-story building where most of the tenants are pensioners.
Opposite them lives a lonely old woman who sometimes asks them to help her with something: drive in carnations, clean the sink, etc.
My friend and her husband never refused her, because my grandmother is all alone, who will help her if not them? Sorry old lady.
And two months ago, granny showed up to them with another request: to move the closet in the room.
The work, of course, no longer looks like a small request, but okay, the guys agreed to help, since the closet didn’t look too big.
And the wardrobe was, by the way, old Soviet, with legs. The guys had never dealt with Soviet furniture, so they didn’t know that before moving such a cabinet, you need to put something soft under the legs so that they don’t scratch the parquet.
And the granny probably knew about this, but for some reason did not warn the guys. Well, what do you think: they successfully scratched the parquet, and even broke one of the legs of the cabinet.
Granny, of course, is hysterical: the property has been ruined, Herods! The guys were very apologetic, promised to fix the closet and polish the scratch on the parquet. But the grandmother was not satisfied with this arrangement.
- Change my parquet and buy a closet! Otherwise, I will write a statement to the police that you invaded my apartment and wanted to rob me!
My friend and her husband went nuts from such impudence. Grandma only looked helpless, but in fact turned out to be very cunning and acumen.
They began to think what to do next, because the grandmother did not give them a pass with her demands. In the end, we decided to buy her a closet, polish the scratch on the parquet, and no longer mess with this old woman.
But after a couple of days, some married couple came to my friends. They said that they were relatives of this old woman from another city, made a scandal that their granny had ruined all the parquet, although he had already worn out without them for a long time, and demanded to reimburse the cost of the new parquet.
The guys have already regretted a hundred times that they helped this granny. As a result, we somehow agreed on a price, gave money to these people so that they would finally fall behind. On this issue with a wardrobe and parquet was closed.
But now my friend and her husband are very wary of strangers asking for help.
We were taught from childhood that we need to help people, but they didn’t warn us how it could turn out for the helper.
Do not rush to do good to people at any cost, always soberly assess the situation: is it really impossible for a person to do without your help, will you break something by helping?
In some cases, the best help would be to advise a person of a competent master, then you will relieve yourself of responsibility and will not look like an indifferent bastard in the eyes of the petitioner.
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