Short Story: John’s lawnmower got repaired, but it had left a bad taste in John’s mouth.

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John took his old lawnmower to a lawn mower repairshop for a service. It was a good quality lawnmower, which had served John very well, for more than twenty years. John had noticed that the throttle was stiff, and that the blades were a bit blunt, as the lawn mower was supposed to mulch the grass finely, as it cut it, so that there was nothing leftover to pick up. The lawnmower had been leaving piles of grass on John’s lawn. John delivered the mower to the repairer. It was close to Christmas, and the guy told John, with the current backlog of mowers to repair, it would probably be at least 3 weeks before John heard from them again. About three weeks later, Joel, the manager, called John, and he told John that his mower was ready to pick up. John went and collected his mower, and paid the money, close to two hundred dollars, as the guy had said that the mower needed a few extra parts, on top of what he had previously quoted John. John assumed all was well. John took the mower home. Then he looked more carefully at it. John noticed that one side of his mower was now scratched and dented. It was like it had been crushed, then fixed. Maybe someone had dropped the mower on its side, or something. Now, John, was a quiet conservative type of a guy. He knew he had no legs to stand on here. He had not taken any photos of his mower before handing it over for repair. He knew the guy would just say that it was like that when he had brought it in. John let it go. He chalked it up as just another experience where he was walked all over, once more again. This often happened to John. John knew though that he himself had done nothing wrong. John just couldn’t be bothered getting into a flap over this nasty experience either. What should he have done? What would you have done? Perhaps, we should not expect things to always go smoothly, as people are often not as we expect them to be. We should let them be so, but if we see that they are not being fair to us, it is largely recompensed back to them by life itself, but when we are 100 percent sure of our position, we can say something, but if the horse has already bolted, it is often then better to not try to drag it back into its paddock, as we will usually experience a kick or two, for our trouble, along the way, if we try that. John was taken a lawn of here. Photo Credit: The photo used here belongs to the writer of this article.