You can’t just say that, without saying how high and why he felt the rope
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J
Well...
You know he wants to tap into our drains, right?
Well I went over and told him that wasn't going to happen. He told us of his troubles with his contract of purchase, the lack of a "servitude" so he could put one across tother neighbour's land etc. So I just left him with it.
But did I tell you he has a retired trade from down the road doing all sorts of work for him, for
nothing? He said he had a cardiac problem to me, yet he tells this neighbour that he has a head problem and had to have a scan. ????
I went home and had a really good look at the documents to do with applying for our septic tank and connections to the main drains. These were all drawn up by the builder and have the architect's stamp and signature all over them. They make it perfectly clear where the connection had to be and I have to assume that it went to the right person and got approved cos, well, we've got em.
So I sent mush an email pointing out that I had all this.
I said to him that I knew this wouldn't help him directly but that the previous owners of his land must have had the same thing. Especially as their land had had to have been viabilised.
(Boring but here is what this means. After a landowner sells off two plots from the same parcel of land for building, if he wants to sell others off he has to make each one "viable", which means ensure access to water, electricity, phone lines and sewage, unless a septic tank with a drainfield is OK. In this case said farmer sold two other plots off and we
know that he made sure the town hall was ready to connect the drains to them in the road. He knew that telling prospective buyers they would have to put in a sewage tank with a drainfield in, would put buyers off and lower the price. He also owned the land where the servitudes would have to be. (He also had to put a fire hydrant in which cost him and arm and two legs!))
So, instead of saying "Thanks mate, I'll have a look at this." he just poo-pooed it all AND, cardinal hanging error, "pointed out", in a PS, an error in my French. Which it wasn't at least not according to Larousse and Robert, which are the equivalent of the Encyclopedia Britannica and the OED.
No one over here has EVER pointed out mistakes in my French, in fact I get the opposite from them.
He's a supercilious, know-it-all c
unt whose bossy wife had a go at W about our trees and shouts at our dogs when they are barking.
He is also an unbelievable smoothy so lots of people think he is really nice. He has not said a harsh word to me or even given me a sideways look, well not quite.
But you know how you just get a feeling about people? Well we have that in spades and although I am a bit more likely to give people a chance W can smell a liar at 100 paces and she smelt him from the word go.
So maybe we are being petty, all I know is that it is a huge disappointment. So we will be polite from now on, but he ain't getting any more free eggs!
