Where Weed Man Went Wrong

This was unpopular in the 80s, and now we live in a time where we work from home, meaning you're interrupting my work day. We're also still fresh off a time when we couldn't meet friends for a cup of coffee, so guess how I feel about strangers at my door?

Rather than handing me a pamphlet, they promised to call and read my quote to me over the phone.

They tried a half-dozen times to reach me a few days (!) after visiting. I was often already on the phone, in a virtual meeting, or simply too busy to talk to them. Phone calls require both parties to be free at the same time, which is why I find them annoying unless they've been scheduled in advance - with say, an email or text.

In addition to the above reasons, there is an overabundance of scam phone calls, so I tend to only answer calls from my contact list, and even then I have to *really* like them.

Nope. And if I had, do you think I'm idiotic enough to click a link I get in a text?

So they finally reached me when I had a little time and wasn't feeling like I needed to be doing something else. I took the call and started listening to the spiel - which was long and didn't get to the price for several minutes. She started talking about a bunch of steps and potential problems they would avert that don't sound like they are genuine concerns... but to be honest my eyes started glazing over instantly... I think she said "moss removal"? Is moss a big problem? So she's not going to really get me to believe in the value of the service in the first place.

I don't know much about lawn care; I used to mow it myself, but we were paying a guy to do it for us in our old neighbourhood, and my wife took care of paying him. I don't think he did any chemicals, which we're pretty averse to anyway. I'm too lazy to do much myself, but the bigger problem is...

I'm sure my expectation of what lawn care by Weed Man would cost wasn't realistic, but there's no way I would pay what they were asking. I don't like a bare or brown/yellow front yard, but I do like money in my bank account.

When the Weed Man rep rang my doorbell, I didn't have the energy to reject him so I listened politely and accepted getting a quote via phone. When another dude showed up an hour later, I simply said "No Thank-You" like I should have with this ridiculous business.

In our first week of being here, a guy came and said he used to do the hedges for the previous owners and the neighbours - I'm not sure if he does lawns and I think I lost the business card, but I"m pretty sure we won't need Weed Man.