Bud shod Trouble the day after we got him home. He didn’t have any shoes on the back and his front was long. He had asked before if I could get ACE because he used it sometimes on “problem” horses to be able to shoe them. I had that bottle we got from JB for Ginger that it didn’t phase, so I offered him some. I paid $25 for it and he said JB was gonna charge him $40 so he didn’t buy any. I put half my bottle in his. Then before he left Hal gave him a gallon bag of frozen blackberries out of the freezer because of course he told him about them and he “sure would like to have some jelly, cobbler”, just like all the other 6 people he gave a gallon. They are $15-20 a gallon picked. I thought surely he wouldn’t charge us as much to shoe Trouble, but he charged the same as always. Now, today the minimum LT charges is $55 for a regular job and he is gonna have to do a “special” job, since he is winging himself.
So you gave Bud (your uncle) $25 worth of ACE, plus $20 worth of blackberies and he still charged you $40 to shoe your horse. :-/ That’d be the last blackberries he ever got from me!