surprise, surprise!

Surprise, Surprise! That is what we came home to this afternoon after a little trip to Columbus. The story starts 2 days ago with a business card left on our door by a tree stump removing guy who noticed that the city had removed 3 big trees from our yard a few weeks ago. I put the card aside as we were not planning to grind out the stumps right now. Then this morning at 9 am the back doorbell rang. The man stopped by to ask about removing our stumps. I said he could take a look and give me a quote, which he did. I then told him that I was not sure about our plans and needed to talk to my wife, look over our budget (which definitely does not have space for tree work at the moment), and i would call him in the next day or two with either a yes or no... which was going to be a no. The story picks up at 4:45 as we are pulling up to home and i notice mud tracks on the driveway and into the yard... then i see the surprise. All the tree stumps had been removed, with all the chips left in the yard. What a mess, not to mention the tracks in our yard from the trucks. So I call the man, and apparently he confused our house with another one. OOPS.. long story short, he is not getting a penny from me (although he had the audacity to ask if the work was worth anything to me, even if i did not want to pay for a month or two). Ah, NO! While it's nice to get work done for free... i now have a huge mess in our yard to clean up! I guess that is how my Sunday afternoon will now be spent.