Was I wrong?

[Poppa]

Generosity comes back to you in one form or another. I too have a SWMBO who has less than generous tendencies at times. These are the times when I ignore her.

[WillyInBris]

Its funny how things work out.

I had a neighbor that I helped make a gate beside his house (he had no idea what screwdriver was) anyway we had a falling out over something I cant remember what, sometime later and he decided to pull the gate out and left it at my front door .

Anyway they put the house on the market about three months later and when he wasn't home one weekend I took the gate back and put it back . the house looked like utter crap without it, and the house sold that weekend.

They moved out about 4 weeks later and he decided to come over and say goodbye and ask why I put the gate back, so I told him that the house looked like crap from the front without it, and I was not going to get rid of him until the house sold so I thought it was the best thing to do

We both had a laugh and parted ways, the new owners took it down and I was a little disappointed but then it was back up about a week later, so I asked why they put it back up, the answer was without it the house looks like it was missing something and they liked it.

From that date forward I do nothing for free so that gives me a lot more time for myself.