Forgotten Trade

[Shawn]

2 months ago, I traded my neighbor 2 large stacks of firewood (and any more I got) for a 24" X 30' Red Oak on his property. Today I told him I was gonna cut it down sometime this week. He seemed to have came down with a bad case of amnesia & forgot about our deal. Luckily (or unluckily) I had not moved the firewood. Anyone else have this problem or even better stories???

Shawn...

[Engineer]

Quite the reverse.  I had done a septic system design for a local woman who owns a furniture store.  This was something like two and a half years ago.  I asked her if she'd be willing to go for a trade of my services for some new furniture once we got the house finished (at that time we were just starting construction).  She said sure. 

Not a word has been exchanged between us in the three years since.

A couple weeks ago my brother (who is a computer network specialist) had just started working on her store network as a new account.  He introduced himself, and she said "oh, you're Jon's brother.  Say, when's he coming in the store, he still has a big credit with us and I want to make sure he remembered it."   ;D

Sorry, it's only the second post and already I've changed the subject.   :( :-\

[jack]

ouch Shawn,

I would do alot of tradeouts,  for landscape materials,  one thing i learned after gettign the stinky end of the stick.   Write it down,  have them sign it... I would tell them that , With my bad memory Ii asked them to write down the agreement and date and sign so I wont forget to make sure that THEY get all I promised.

It took me about 5 yrs of loosing out on the TRADES.........before I got smart with the pen and paper.   
One guy came back after 6 or 7 years,  and demanded his payment,  I told him, bring me your reciept with the tally,  and I will load your truck to the gills.
MY wife, the one with the memory capacity,,,,she told me that we filled this guys order years ago...he was trying to get some freebees.

paper saved my bacon,
Dirtdoctor

[Bro. Noble]

One day I was going down a back road when I met a car and the driver started honking and waving.  He stopped,  so I did too to see what his problem was.  I recognized him as a fellow I used to do some trading with several years before.  He popped open the trunk of his car and pulled out a dirty old beat up shoe box and told me he knew he'd run into me some day and give me this.  Inside were some empty 10 gage hulls that he said he'd promised to save for me,  and two one dollar bills that he said he owed me because I'd bought some junk from him and he didn't have the right change.  Both the hulls and the bills were moldy :D :D :D

[Furby]

Well Noble has my vote for best story! :D

[JCam]

This usually happens about this time every fall. Some guy I rarely see will stop by and ask if he can go deer hunting. I tell them, "OK, but I'll be wanting to borrow your (Harley, bass boat, Corvette, well rig, whatever I know they own or do) in a week or so. Maybe on the 4th of July. Will that be OK? If it is, I'll be seeing you out here about deer season." They always get flustered, mutter some ah wells, and leave. That's the way it is... You spend your money on your property and want me to let you use my property for free... take a hike. The free fire wood and cut on shares guys get an earfull, too.

[Shawn]

Well, Theirs actually more to the story. About 3 months ago he had back surgery. My wife and her mother cooked extra and sent it over to him. 3 squares aday for a couple weeks. Then when he was up and around, able to fend for himself they sent over dinner almost everyday for a couple weeks. Hw was very generious then. Now, Sept, is a different story. It burns my buscuits but my wife reminds me that we didn't help him for tree's! It was the right thong to do!

Shawn...