I have another one for you. I probably mentioned this a few years ago.
My wife and her 4 sisters were doing some clean up work at their mom's house. Dad had passed away a about 5 years earlier and Mom was in a nursing home. Time to get ready to get rid of the house. I was with them along with a couple of the husbands.
We were cleaning up the yard. Cutting down saplings that had sprouted. Picking up trash and pulling weeds. We took down a pine tree that was too close to the house. It was a day long project and the sisters were coming and going all day long. I and another husband/brother-in-law were probably the only two that had been there and actually working all day long.
After a break he and I were talking about taking down a limb that was in the way. The branch stuck out towards the driveway. It was a little problematic when mowing but not overwhelming. It would help open up that part of the yard if it was gone.
to me it was a no brainer. The tree had to go. He agreed. As a courtesy I asked the girls what they thought and they all wanted to keep the branch. "Daddy had planted the tree and it reminds us of him." I wasn't taking down the whole tree just one branch. Not all the big of a branch either.
It was a little surprising the push back I was getting. All day long when I asked what they thought it was always "Go ahead" but not this time. I walked back over to the other guy and asked him what he thought now. He still agreed the branch should go. I handed him the chain saw and told him I would back him up. He backed down and wouldn't do it. The coward.
Walking over to the branch I revved the saw so it wouldn't die and eyeballed where I wanted to make the cut. Looking over at the sisters all sitting on their butts at the table (and had been for at least a half hour) they were all giving me "THE EYE" and telling me in no uncertain terms that I better not cut that limb if I knew what was good for me.
I couldn't believe it. I had been working all day long. Not a complaint while they came and went and sat and talked. (Between the 5 of them they are in 3 different states and it is rare they are all together so they had some catching up to do.) But now they are all acting like they are my boss and I would suffer the consequences if I didn't listen to them. I remember thinking, "I only sleep with one of them so why are they all acting like they are my wife giving me the ultimatum"? I then thought, well i have a lot of "Kudos credits" in the bank, I may as well cash them all in on this one act. I cut the limb.
You should have seen the look on their faces. They were totally shocked. I had never done something like that to them. Next came the look of rage. I had disobeyed their direct order. Fortunately for me the chain saw was still buzzing so I didn't hear what they told me. Next I had to cut up the branch so I was looking at the ground while they carried on.
Not 5 minutes later I bound the saw on a downed branch. I don't remember if it was that one or another that had to be cut up. I pulled the chain off trying to get the saw free. All I could hear was, "See, Daddy is getting even with you for cutting his tree down.
Next day the IT sister posted this photo on Facebook.
BTW the other guy in the photo was the one who was too scared to cut the branch.
I think they finally forgave me but I don't bring it up. Ever.