polo1665
Veteran Member
Yeah, not easy, but at least it's temporary.
Giving you grief isn't your neighbors job, it's your families job:laughing:
Mark
being a good neighbor--
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Yeah, not easy, but at least it's temporary.
Giving you grief isn't your neighbors job, it's your families job:laughing:
Mark
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RadarTech
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N2deep---
when I was in the Marines, we used to say there was always the 10% crew..
The 10% of folks that didn't care, were difficult to work with and often were jerks or worse...
Those 10% often ruined it for the other 90%.....
After I got out, I found much the same... the majority of people are just downright great folks....and we all have people that we work with, live near or are aquainted with that make up that 10%..
Life should be about being that 90%.. and not acting like the 10%....
It almost always seems that the 90% hang togather, with a few of the 10% crew tryin to fit in every now and then...
the stories are great... Seems that we all have some to share... and they are all great to read!!!
J
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RadarTech
Elite Member
I guess I omitted--- there are 4 neighbors up and down the road that are family.. this was a distant aunt that is seldom around....
J
Roger2561
Silver Member
There is an elderly couple who live just up the road from me who are on fixed income. Every year they ask if I can till their garden for them. Every year they ask how much they owe - I tell them "no charge", but they insist on doing something. I tell them to give it to charity...I don't do it for the money.
Neighbor across the street is from the heart of Boston, MA. I clear his yard of snow every snowfall. I can't charge him, he's on dialysis 3 days a week and he's having trouble making ends meet. I couldn't live with myself if I charged him. It's simply neighbor helping neighbor.
Roger
Neighbor across the street is from the heart of Boston, MA. I clear his yard of snow every snowfall. I can't charge him, he's on dialysis 3 days a week and he's having trouble making ends meet. I couldn't live with myself if I charged him. It's simply neighbor helping neighbor.
Roger
brin
Super Member
When my older neighbor had prostate surgery and was in the hospital I used my tractor and FEL to load my round bermuda hay bales and take them into his pasture for his cattle..I never charged him for them...he tried to pay.
This was about 15 yrs. ago a neighbor called me and he had a tractor but no FEL so he asked me if I would go down the street to the corner about 2 miles away with my Loader and haul two FEL bucket loads of gravel another mile down the road to his elderly aunts house and spread it in her driveway...it was the countys gravel but he had called and they said she could have it but they could not haul or spread it...
So I went down with my JD 3020 and FEL and hauled and spread the gravel and headed back home about 3 miles down the road...as I passed the only intersecting street to my right I looked and their were no cars in sight and none behind me and just before I put my hand signal out for a left turn into my driveway on my farm and then looked back as I approached my driveway and there were no cars behind me and none in front of me so just as I was ready....I mean 2 seconds away from swinging the tractor wheel to the left to make the turn -- a car came up from behind and passed me at about 80 MPH in the left lane and I just kept going to the next driveway and sat a minute and then backed up and turned into my farm road and went on to the barn..It was that close...that car must have been going 80MPH and was going so fast that when I looked back it was not even in sight and in just a few seconds ..there they were and they would have had that FEL in their windshield and I'm sure it would have flipped me ..so I would have been a goner...Just one of those really, really close calls.
Good deeds sometimes go unpunished ....I guess that would be the moral of the story.
This was about 15 yrs. ago a neighbor called me and he had a tractor but no FEL so he asked me if I would go down the street to the corner about 2 miles away with my Loader and haul two FEL bucket loads of gravel another mile down the road to his elderly aunts house and spread it in her driveway...it was the countys gravel but he had called and they said she could have it but they could not haul or spread it...
So I went down with my JD 3020 and FEL and hauled and spread the gravel and headed back home about 3 miles down the road...as I passed the only intersecting street to my right I looked and their were no cars in sight and none behind me and just before I put my hand signal out for a left turn into my driveway on my farm and then looked back as I approached my driveway and there were no cars behind me and none in front of me so just as I was ready....I mean 2 seconds away from swinging the tractor wheel to the left to make the turn -- a car came up from behind and passed me at about 80 MPH in the left lane and I just kept going to the next driveway and sat a minute and then backed up and turned into my farm road and went on to the barn..It was that close...that car must have been going 80MPH and was going so fast that when I looked back it was not even in sight and in just a few seconds ..there they were and they would have had that FEL in their windshield and I'm sure it would have flipped me ..so I would have been a goner...Just one of those really, really close calls.
Good deeds sometimes go unpunished ....I guess that would be the moral of the story.
It sure has been nice to read what I have always thought,most people are good.The post that mentioned about a 90/10 ratio I,d guess thats about right.I keep the drive ways cleared for several folks around and it,s a pleasure to help them.Could be a health concern though,I shouldn,t be eating the cake and pies [I,m paid].:licking
ave
ave
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RadarTech
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It sure has been nice to read what I have always thought,most people are good.The post that mentioned about a 90/10 ratio I,d guess thats about right.I keep the drive ways cleared for several folks around and it,s a pleasure to help them.Could be a health concern though,I shouldn,t be eating the cake and pies [I,m paid].:licking
Dave,
you should post where your from..
and then share the pastries of your labors! :thumbsup:
J
The pastries are indeed good but probably not worthy of the trip to n.Minnesota:laughing:I,d gladly share though.
Dave
buckeyefarmer
Epic Contributor
One of my neighbors got to spend the winter in Afghanistan, so I put out round bales for the cows, and dug their driveway out after one of our monster snowstorms. They have a HS aged daughter that is a real worker, I would take the hay bales out with their tractor, but she would get out in the mud and unwrap the bales, while fighting off their mean bull. Their son is 14 and got the confidence to use the tractor and put out the bales.
ctgoldwing
Platinum Member
Radar I agree with you 100% - though I'm not sure I would risk my health doing it. ..
I think most us enjoy helping our neighbors out and we get that intangible satisfaction afterward knowing that we did at least 1 good thing today - maybe made the world a slightly better place.