Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Arghh communicating with small business owners is so hard

 My homemade hay bunk is failing and I saw a perfect feeder on Facebook Marketplace.   Hope it was not some scammer stealing pictures of someone who actually makes the feeders.  Demanded a deposit of half the price,  which was a bit ughh,  if I flaked out he'd have the feeder to sell to someone else,  but venmo has a bit of buyer protection supposedly, and the design is just perfect for my needs so I sent the deposit.  Now it is the 3 weeks and he is not responding to my queries.   I texted him and will try calling later today.

I may have crossed wires with the nice local mechanic.   I thought he was going to come and get my car to service yesterday.   When he had not shown by the time I was ready to head to work, I texted him and asked if he wanted to wait until the roads were dry.    He texted back that Thursday would work and "no hard feeling on my part".     So I will have to text him again and see if needs me to get the car over there.  I could have done that yesterday, but I thought he had offered to pick it up.   He has done that for other vehicles he has serviced and its really nice not to have to line up a ride back from the shop.  

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