Let’s Take It Outside: How to Avoid Contractor Conflicts

For some baffling reason, my daughter's eighth-grade girlfriends elected me as the mom they would most like to back them up in a bar fight. Unlikely as that scenario is, (Besides they have no business being in a bar - ever!) I take this as perhaps the best compliment I've ever received.

Oh but that their tough-mom perceptions were true. I could use a shot of confidence just now as I head into conflict with a landscaper. I'd like a "Bar Fighter Mom" t-shirt and a matching attitude, because, truth is, in the face of conflict I crumble like coffee cake.

The fight started in the backyard, where we have this water feature. Actually it's a problem-ridden rock pile that squirts water and tries to look like a natural waterfall, as opposed to something that belongs on a miniature golf course. To say that this water feature is temperamental is like saying Mike Tyson has anger issues.

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