As I've previously written, I own a rental property with my brother, and he is managing repairs to it before it is rented out again. This past weekend, my brother would have liked for me to help him with work on repairing the foundation walls - patching the holes with new concrete and possibly applying a new coat of paint as a sealer. Well, I wasn't available because of RQS's birthday, and he had to make other plans.
My brother is well connected with the fire department, and can usually get a few friends to help him for couple of C-Notes each per day. This weekend, his friends weren't available, and he had to reach out to my step-nephew, B, for help. To me, B is as useful as the Pope's balls - they both have the potential of doing something useful, but because of individual choices, they have vestigial existences. So, my brother figured that he'd try to get some use out of B, and avoid losing a week by using B as a laborer.
The plan for the day was for my brother and B to do some work in the basement. Once the walls had been power washed again, my brother sent B out in the yard to do some minor landscaping while he patched walls with concrete. Four hours later, work was done and our account was $100 lighter. Sadly, the concrete my brother used was found to be bad, and we will need to repeat this work next weekend.
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