Quote:
Originally Posted by Limitless
Spoilered for the kind of long post, but yes I agree... I took on the underestimated the job and all of the things that came with it and should not have taken it in the first place :/ Didn't want to back out after we all spent so much time talking about it and other stuff, but I should have regardless. Lesson definitely learned
|
That's the other problem when you offer to do a backyard job like this: you spend hours talking with the guy online, he likes what he sees of what you've done to your own setup, he asks/begs/convinces you to come do some work on his ride... you accept... now you're there looking at it and realizing before you even start that you just might be in over your head...
So what do you do? Go ahead and try to do the best you can anyway? Or back out and look like an idiot... or worse, leave the guy hanging and look like a douche? I mean, something cosmetic like this is one thing, but what if it's something like, "I need my brakes fixed before a weekend trip, I could have gone to the shop and paid hundreds, but this jerk I know online said he'd do it for a case of beer, but then he got there Friday and said the job was too much for him, and now the shops can't fit me in and I'm screwed"?
It's just so fuckin' easy to sit back behind your keyboard and say shit like, "Well he shouldn't have done it if he knew he couldn't finish the job", but when you're the guy standing there with things half taken apart by the time you realize it really is beyond you, things look a whole lot different.
All the
aside, I've been on both sides of the equation enough to cut both guys some slack. Lessons learned, move along, nothing more to see here.