So I was set about getting more bids on the landscaping project (sprinklers front/back yards, lawn installed). I had two flyers of three. The third didn't mention a license number so it went into the bin. I checked online before calling to see what the status of the licenses was because I've got "sucker" tattooed on my face.
One had an invalid number on the flyer. Lying bastards! The other, well, the license was real but had expired probably the same year the flyer was put out--it wasn't a very new flyer.
So let's see where we are... the national company I was going to use doesn't service this area despite soliciting my business at the store close enough to almost spit at from the front lawn. Their major competitor doesn't do that work at all. So then I move to the flyers which have been left. Eliminate those not advertising a license number. Check the licenses. At this point I'm one for six. That one is a neighbor two homes north. I don't have his license info (yet) but it was just a 'ballpark estimate' and I know where he lives!
So if I'm going to get further estimates now I have to look online or in the phone book. What a pain! If people weren't lying assholes my life would be much less complicated.
No word from the duckie on gammaduckie's surgery yet... maybe today he will say something?
I think I missed my morning meds. Well, I basically know I did and I don't care. It's also too damned hot! The weather is evil.
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