It is what it is......I guess

A neighbor of mine was throwing out a watering wand in his trash earlier this week and I asked him why. He said something broke and it leaks all over at the handle. He said he was just going to buy a new one

I asked him what it would cost to buy an new one. He said around $25. I looked it over and said I could sell him one that didn’t leak for $15. He said yes and followed me into my garage.

I took the handle off the old one, grabbed a 50 cent washer from my organizer bin and replaced the broken one that was in there. I took it outside and connected it to the hose and showed that it didn’t leak anymore.

He stood wide-eyed and said “that’s great!”. Then he reached for the repaired wand and tried to take it. I pulled it away and looked him in the eye and said “It’s $15 if you want it.”

He stood flabbergasted and tried to argue, but I explained that the price was because of the knowledge I had to repair it that he didn’t have. He eventually understood that I saved him $10 and that the cost of repair was more than just how easy it was to do or what the parts cost to do it.

It was a new experience for him to understand that the price for someone else’s knowledge isn’t always free like the internet.