I got a new gardener story time ✨
So my house I’m paying rent to my grandpa since he technically owns it and he hired this gardener that was his friend (not a good idea) the gardener said he would make sure there was no weeds, cut back all the trees, grow grass, mow the lawn, yk make it pretty.
I had this gardener for YEARS!!!! And my front and backyard doesn’t even look like we do anything to it, but could I fire him NO! Cause he was my grandpas friend and my grandpas too nice. I mean with this guy it was excuse after excuse of why the yard wasn’t nice. One day when I came outside and they didn’t notice me I saw one of the gardeners workers fake curing the weeds! That was a YEAR AGO! But one day I went to my aunts house to meet her gardener a couple of weeks ago and he gave me their number and said he would check out my house, the only problem was my gramps, so I had him over today and said that the new gardener was going to visit and bing bam boom old gardener gone!!! And the new gardener is now coming twice a month first starting with cleaning everything up before doing major work ☺️
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