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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Odd-Zone4359 on 2024-02-29 21:17:54.
Warning This is holism AF. This is also a throw away account. any one who knows me will be able to ID me from this story
I have a hobby that I turned into a small bossiness, its not a lot of money but its kind of nice and its a thing that I enjoy doing. Over the last 5 years or so I have developed a reputation as a man of my word, and some one who provides a great product at a fair price.
I live in an area that has a lot of vacation homes around a lake, these homes are owned by people who have $500k or more to spend on having a place on the lake to go on weekends during the summer.
Mary and Steve were two of these people. Mary and Steve own a couple of business, they are known for treating people fairly, even people that they have fired will tend to acknowledge that they had it coming.
Mary Stopped by my shop back in September, she wanted to hire me to do some work for them, for Steve's Christmas gift. I could do what she wanted me to do, I gave her a price tag of $5,500. She agreed instantly. we shook hands and I went to work, I got it finished up December 20th, just in time. I had to take a few days off from my regular job to make it happen. Marry was thrilled at the results. She went to get me a check and she wanted to wright it out for $11,000. Double what we agreed on. I declined telling her the $5,500 was what we agreed to, and that's all I was going to take.
On December 26th rolls around, and Steve shows up thanking me for his Christmas gift gushing over the craftsmanship, then complains I wouldn't take the bonus money that I was offered, I explained to him " Mary and I agreed on the price, and we shook hands on it. a deal is a deal."
Steve says to me "well at least, let me buy you and your GF dinner.. 21 times" He had a big shit eating grin on his face. I should have know he was up to something. I thought about it, thinking local restaurants, and agreed. then he said "My choice, any place I chose all on my dime" in hind sight this should have clued me in to the fact that he had something up his sleeve. I smiled laughed and said ok.
The entire month of January went by I didn't hear any thing from Steve and Marry, which is fine were not exactly in the same social circles. At the end of January, all of a sudden my GF just got supper happy, like giddy, I knew she had a secret she was keeping from me but I wasn't sure what. she told me pack my bags for a valentines day trip we would be gone for 10 days, and bring my passport. we would leave on the 10th of February, (19 days ago).
we got to the airport and who would you guess was there, Steve and Mary. I was shocked as shit. Steve said he had a "debt to pay", and he "owed us 21 meals, at time and place of his choosing" and he chose Rome over valentines day. I tried to say no, he threw my words back in my face, " a deals a deal"
The 4 of us spent the next week in Rome Italy. Steve and Mary paid for our flights, hotel room and 21 meals. all of our tours and and transport was on us. We got back home on the 22nd of February. We had a great time.