I've had a gardener several times over the past few years. I wanted some work doing and messaged him twice over the last couple of months giving him my holiday dates. No reply to either message so I just presumed he didn't want to do the work and started looking around for someone else.
He did message me when I got back from holiday to say he'd come round Saturday 6 July. This is just for a recce. I messaged him that morning to check what time he was planning to arrive as I'd got shopping and things to do. He came back with "I might have to rearrange". I gave him up as a bad job.
This morning I'm looking on the local Facebook forum and he's advertising for work. I replied saying that I was still waiting for a date. It was a woman managing the page who replied asking me to call her so she could "put you on our system". Cue a series of messages, ending with me stating that I'm a long standing customer, have been communicating with Fred and I'm already on the "system" but waiting for him to respond.
Less than 20 minutes later Fred comes back with a date over the upcoming weekend. So he wasn't too busy, and they're looking for work but pissing off loyal customers!
Have I made him look stupid?