Work: Today, I finally finished painting a house that took me 3 weeks...

By Anonymous - 02/08/2010 05:05 - United States

Today, I finally finished painting a house that took me 3 weeks to complete at 10 hours a day, including weekends, due to my dedication to perfection. When I went to meet with the homeowner for pay day, which was supposed to be $2000, he gave me $200, 5 tacos and then told me to "get the f*** off my lawn." FML

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By Anonymous - 15/11/2010 12:06 - Netherlands

Today, after spending two weeks renovating my room and $1000 on paint and a new floor, my landlord told me that he's sold the house. Also, he was kind enough to inform me that unless I paint the walls back to white, I won't be getting my $500 deposit back. FML

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By Llaurin - 24/01/2011 14:43 - United Kingdom

Today, my husband has been painting our house all weekend and plans to finish the job after work today. I decided to surprise him by completing the job myself. Painting the last window frame, I dropped the open tin of white paint, right onto our car roof. FML

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By hackling fellow - 10/03/2011 13:17

Today, I was painting my mom's house, which so far had taken 12 hours over two days. All of a sudden there was a wind storm. All of the leaves stuck to the wet paint. FML

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By canabana - 11/04/2009 08:42 - Canada

Today, I spent 3 hours trying to close a simple $400 deal with a homeowner. He spent 3 hours telling me about his life story including his marital problems, his philosophical views of the world, AND he read me 20 pages of haiku poems. Only 3 hours later did he tell me he couldn't accept my deal. FML

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Mike1313 0

Monday 2 August 2010 12:09

throw the tacos at the wall u painted and ask for the money ur supposed to get!

maskedman 9

Monday 2 August 2010 12:39

I can't wait to see this on Judge Judy.

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dl_zook 6

Tuesday 3 August 2010 6:34

first off, taking 21 days to paint a house is more than excessive, he was probably pissed you took so long. regardless, you SHOULD get paid for the work you did, regardless of how long it took you. do the right thing and take him to court, please do not listen to more than 1/2 of these posts and commit vandalism because then you are not only out the money, but that gives him the right to press criminal charges against you, which is a loose loose situation for you. i hope both parties learned a lesson in all of this. for you, get it in writing and suggest some sort of 'good faith' payment in advance(usually 1/3 the estimated bid is a good start) and on his end, he should ask for an estimate on the time it will take to complete the job, if he is unhappy with the length of time it will take, then he will know in advance and not try to pay you in tacos.

TheDrifter 23

Thursday 2 February 2012 0:43

Exactly. In Florida the homeowner also has the legal right to penalize for loss of use and late completion. Last time I was down there (visiting my grandparents winter home) the standard was $100 a day late completion penalty, more if the honeowner cannot use their house and needs to pay for accomodations during the renovation.