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I really don't mind helping out friends, family and neighbours with DIY tasks. Especially those who lack the skills or physical ability.

But when an able-bodied neighbour, half my age, with a very decent income, turned up at my doorstep earlier I thought it best to tell him to go away in short, jerky movements.

He appeared with a list (carpet-laying, carpet tile laying, tiling, floor tiling, replace electrical fittings, assemble flat-pack furniture, bath tap replacement, jet washing, bed frame repair and tree pruning).

He also had a timetable for me to do the work!

He suggested I would do it all for free 'cos I'm a "good neighbour"..

Good neighbour perhaps, but not his lacky or slave.

I suggested a sum of around £300 would be apt (though I would not have taken his money, I have never done in the past). I was just taking the piss, the same as he was.

He got really huffy, so I told him to leave.....