We drive on parkways
We park on driveways
Gallagher, 1980s
Some years ago, my wife and I had a nasty tree in our front yard, some kind of Locust, I think. When it dropped its leaves, many small compound leaves, they would fill up the wiper gutters on our cars so thick you had to scoop heaping handfuls out before you could drive, and if it were raining, a few always got under your wiper blade.
Just as bad were the stalks the leaves attached to, which tended to bind everything together.
The tree was not bad looking, but it was quite large, so we put out a request for a quote to remove it.
We came home one day, and the tree was on the ground, cut up.
Apparently, one of the companies we sent the request for a quote to took it as a request to cut down the tree.
We were happy to have it down, but refused to pay. We did ASK them to cut it down!
Late this past summer, I had a “contractor” by some recycled asphalt from to redo a driveway for his customer. He called me few days later and said it didn’t compact right and wanted me to bring more material and equipment and help him fix it at my cost because his client wasn’t happy. I met him on site and told him he didn’t know what he was doing. I had a sneaky suspicion that he was a fly-by-nighter, so I checked his contractor license, and it was expired. When he called me, I told him I don’t help fly-by-nights and that all he wanted from me was to put my license on the line to make it right for him.
The driveway is bare dirt.
Dig a hole, put that ‘contractor’ in it.
Pave.
I believe this has already been discussed in other posts. Search first.
The Blalock Paving Company in North Carolina used to run an ad saying, “we come to where you need us”. Not sure what they were thinking. I for sure wasn’t going to bring my driveway to their place.
She should have used pea gravel works great no sweeping.
I have read a story about a lawn being stolen.
Also a regular home.
Some thieves think big.