What would you do? Would you do anything? Embarrassed.....

Gingernutty

A lady at work has been very busy at home decorating. She's been having a complete clearout as well as having plasterers and carpet fitters in.

After removing large pieces of furniture and their contents - the day she brought in the contents of a drinks cabinet to give away was interesting - she took everything off the walls for the plasterer.

Now, impressed with the newly smoothed and painted walls, she doesn't want to put a lot of the pictures and mirrors back up.

I expressed an interest in a large mirror (a little over 3' x 2') and she not only brought it in, she took me home (well out of her way), and helped me get it to my house.

She reckons I've done her a favour. She wants the mirror to go to a good home.

I'm embarrassed. She has not only given me a lovely mirror, but has gone miles out of her way to get me home and has refused to hear of payment.

She has been a good friend at work and I'd like to repay her somehow.

However, I have no oven (microwave), can't drive, she has just got rid of most of the 'heavy' spirits in her house (so I can't give her a bottle of rum lurking in the back of a kitchen cupboard), she has cleared the house of a lot of clutter so a cross stitch thingy wouldn't be appropriate and so I am at a loss to work out how to repay her 'in kind'.

Any ideas?

Pee

Could you take her out for a meal maybe with a voucher?

busiscoming2

I was going to say could you not buy her coffee and a cake?

HeidiHi

Gingernutty wrote: »

A lady at work has been very busy at home decorating. She's been having a complete clearout as well as having plasterers and carpet fitters in.

After removing large pieces of furniture and their contents - the day she brought in the contents of a drinks cabinet to give away was interesting - she took everything off the walls for the plasterer.

Now, impressed with the newly smoothed and painted walls, she doesn't want to put a lot of the pictures and mirrors back up.

I expressed an interest in a large mirror (a little over 3' x 2') and she not only brought it in, she took me home (well out of her way), and helped me get it to my house.

She reckons I've done her a favour. She wants the mirror to go to a good home.

I'm embarrassed. She has not only given me a lovely mirror, but has gone miles out of her way to get me home and has refused to hear of payment.

She has been a good friend at work and I'd like to repay her somehow.

However, I have no oven (microwave), can't drive, she has just got rid of most of the 'heavy' spirits in her house (so I can't give her a bottle of rum lurking in the back of a kitchen cupboard), she has cleared the house of a lot of clutter so a cross stitch thingy wouldn't be appropriate and so I am at a loss to work out how to repay her 'in kind'.

Any ideas?

Just carry on being a good friend to her in return and if you ever get the chance to help her out, do it. Maybe take a pic of the mirror in situ to show her how much you love it, or mention to her how thrilled you are because there's much extra light it bounces around the room now.

There's no need for a quid pro quo. (Although making the coffee and bringing in some cakes would be a lovely thing to do.)

nickyhutch

Just a bunch of flowers would do it, I think.

pink_princess

Making the cuppas at work for a full day would more than be enough if it was me.

CH27

A bunch of flowers would be nice.

January20

nickyhutch wrote: »

Just a bunch of flowers would do it, I think.

CH27 wrote: »

A bunch of flowers would be nice.

That would have been my suggestion - a very nice bunch of flowers!

Wilma33

A thank you card with a nice note in about how much you appreciate it?

Sagz_2

If your friend has had the plasterers in maybe you could offer to go around and help her clean up or move all the furniture back ..... and take a bag of doughnuts for teabreak.

Lotus-eater

Repay her in kind by being a good friend, I think it's that simple.

She obviously liked helping you out, you should gratefully accept it and say how lovely it looks in it's new home, that you love it and thankyou (again).