Day 290 - Vinegar

As the saying goes, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

I am going to try to make a long story short, but suffice it to say that we absolutely do not recommend Carleton Insulation. The owner of the company, whose name I won't write but will refer to as TD, seemed very nice and all that when he was doing his sales pitch. Even though he was expensive, he had been working with Charles for over 20 years, and we thought that was a good indication he was trustworthy and would do a good job.

The first insulation (batting) was done on Dec 15th and the blown-in insulation was done Dec 23rd (later than promised). Charles called TD on Thursday (Jan 19th) to say he had a cheque for him, but couldn't get it him to him for a day or two. TD seemed to have a meltdown, even though it was just barely over 30 days for the first bill and under 30 days for the 2nd bill, and called us threatening to lien our house. What a jerk! Incredibile that our first contact with TD after having the insulation installed was to use heavy-handed threats.

It's pretty clear that TD has ignored the old saying, that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

I wrote TD a cheque to get the jerk out of our lives forever. Then he has the chutzpah to go the bank to try to get the cheque certified. I had told him it was a line of credit cheque, so please deposit it right away, so he tried to get it certified. Well you can't certify a cheque on a LOC. He was so rude and abrasive at the bank that they called me afterwards about it.

I find it incredible that someone would throw away a relationship of 20 years over a small amount of money.

Nobody can take away your good name except yourself. Like TD did.

I hope it was worth it to him.