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TIFU While Trying To Get Cheap Yard Labor From My Nephews

Over the last two weeks, there has been a small crew preparing to move the trailer house next door to my Grandma's. She noticed that the old neighbors had a large section of paving stones in front of the porch and along the side path, so she got permission to take them.

The crew of guys absolutely trashed her yard with old pieces of wood, metal, and junk. And they left the ground completely unleveled! Grandmama was pissed! So I got two of my nephews and we started cleaning it up and raking dirt, the poor maintenence men in charge of the park were right there with us digging along. There's no way I wanted to stay out for another hour moving paving stones before going to work! So I struck a deal.

I told my oldest nephew I would pay him a dollar for each stone he moved. I did a rough count beforehand, just to make sure I had enough floating cash. I saw about fifty of them, so I figured thirty dollars for the older one and twenty for the younger one would be good compensation, they worked for a couple hours each. I got them each a shovel and left the house. What I didn't realize is that the stones were double stacked and half buried in the ground... so now I feel like I have to eat my words... those little assholes moved ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX stones.

The oldest was very good about it and requested I take him out to dinner to his favorite burger place and now I owe him popcorn money for school every Friday for at least a month. But hey, Grandma has enough stones to redo her whole yard if she wants. But next time I'm setting a flat rate for the kiddos!

TL;DR The trailer house next door was removed and they left behind a whole yard of free paving stones, I counted about fifty. I told my nephews I would give them a dollar for each paving stone they collected for Grandma. The stones ended up being double stacked, totalling over a hundred and now I'm in debt to a couple of kids.

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