Dave Siciliano
Final Approach
Just practicin!!
Trouble is, I just can't say it when I need to sometimes.
For some reason, lately I have a bunch of folks stepping over the line and asking (or sometimes insisting) I let them do things I don't want to. How do y'all get some of these people to back off??
Had a guy want to go out to may hanger and look at my oxygen system: He's thinking about getting one. Calls up and says, "what's your hanger combination, I need to go in there and look at your oxygen system.". Well, I don't give that out. He says he knows how busy I am and that it'll be hard for him to get there when I can--so just give him the combination. Seesh.
How bout the guy next door (just purchased a building behind my hanger. Walks out to my baron when I'm pre-flighting and starts telling me how his kid wants to fly and that I should teach him in my plane. I begged off with insurance coverage stuff, but what in the world is he thinking?
Asked some folks coming to a hanger party to park outside the security gate and walk in. Next thing I know, one has given the gate code to another and another and 40 or more cars are parked along the ramp in front of my hanger.
Sometimes I just get tired of being nice.
Actually had a friend go in my hanger (was a neighbor for a long time) and borrow something. I went in that weekend and it wasn't there. So, I started calling around and he said, oh yea. I borrowed it. I asked him to please let me know if he borrowed something and asked why he needed it as he didn't have a plane at the moment. He said he didn't need it; another guy did. He said he knew it was just sitting there and I wasn't using it. I just blew my stack and told him how much I valued his friendship, but wasn't in the tool rental business. Geeesh!!
These are just a few examples. How do y'all keep this under control? I like being a nice guy, but some of this is just over the line. I don't think people should even be asking for some of this!! Sometimes I'm really just caught short by their lack of sensitivity and thought they have some right to my hanger and plane (amoung other things).
Best,
Dave
Baron 322KS