Ryan Fields

Picked up a couple of new side jobs

I was out raking an old lady’s lawn the other day, as usual, one of my side jobs, cleaning up her lawn, and a woman from across the street came over.  She said “This is so-and-so and I was talking on the phone the other day and she told me that you come over to clean the lawn every spring and every fall and when the lawn gets too much for her in the summer you come over and straighten it out for her; mowing and trimming.”

She told me that she is going on vacation and a couple of times this summer and wanted to know if I could mow her lawn while she is gone.  I said “Sure, I’ll be glad to.”  She told me that she had been watching me for the last couple of years and that I did a really good job.  She then told me she was going to tell all her friends.  I said “Don’t do that!”  She said, “well, it’s hard when my friends come and see how nice my lawn looks and they know it wasn’t me!”  I said “well, just tell a couple of the ones that can really afford it because I feel my time is really valuable and I really can’t afford to mow more lawns for little or nothing.”  She said that was fine, money wasn’t an object.  So now I have three new lawns to take care of for occasion for the summer, but I can use the money!