Quote Originally Posted by Lola View Post
Hi Smith, hope you haven't worn out your welcome at your host's place. You're messing with the man's property (door, electrician, paint) and you are not his brother, his son or his woman. It took me a couple years to understand the sense of this.

His yard, his rule, avoid friction with non-family men = peace in the yard.
I think maybe you mis-read those parts. Seemed to me he was just lending a hand with a project that the landlord's "from foreign" girlfriend wanted done.