from X: the tub has been there for almost 7 years and they have barely ever used it. is still don't think it is for them. if you are "sure" they will use it how's this. i know money is tight but i think this is reasonable, you give me 500 and a letter saying that i am not responsible for the a/c. my time is worth alot more than that and i think you really don't want me in the house anyway. then we can stop "haggling" and be done with all this crap and move on. what do you say?
me: They barely ever used it because you kept the temp too high for ANY of us to use it (remember when you bought it to bring us closer together?) Do you really think I want to keep the thing for ME, given all the history that it has? Of course, I would rather not haggle over something that is for our kids. Do you even notice when I put the kids first, like this past weekend? I don't have ulterior motives. If you are so desperate for the money, I'll give you $500. I can't afford to have someone else do the A/C - that needs to be done, and it's almost a year since you signed a contract to do the work and gave your word. Your children live in this house, and need the AC to work reliably. You have no idea what I think, not for a very long time, so stop making assumptions. Funny thing, I stumbled across cards from 2005 from you yesterday while I was looking through the file cabinet. What have you turned in to. Try to eliminate the nastiness.
We still have to find a mutual time to go over the holiday schedule; give me a few times that work for you, and I'll get back to you with a confirmed time.
*** Yep, I let a little emotion slip in. But come on, I'm human! WHY is he such a continual a$$???????
