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Helping someone out feels different when the favor starts looking like a full landscaping job.

After agreeing to mow his sister’s friend’s yard, one man sees a backyard with grass nearly reaching his knees.

Rather than back out completely, he asks for just $30 to cover the extra work and equipment.

See why one modest price suddenly turns a favor into a family argument.

AITA for not cutting my sister’s friend’s yard

A while back, my sister asked me if I could cut her friend yard as it was getting tall.

For context, her friend is a single mom of one child, and lives in her own home.

I agreed, then asked her for the details – where she lived and if she wanted me to cut front and back.

She told me front and back and that she wanted it cut asap because she already got a notice for it to be trimmed.

But when he saw the yard, he was in for quite the shock.

She proceeded to show me pictures and her front yard was outgrown, but not too bad.

However, her backyard was hideous – the grass was almost to my knees and I’m a pretty tall guy.

I was a bit reluctant but still agreed.

After loading my push mower and weed eater to my truck, I texted my sister that I’ll be fine with $30 bucks for doing it.

And this innocent action caused the whole kind act to go sour.

She then proceeded to get mad at me and called me selfish for not wanting to help her friend because she had a kid.

I told her that she was her friend and not mine, and that it was a reasonable price for her outgrown lawn.

She then told me to forget about it, and that she will find someone else to do it.

AITA?

It’s one thing to do a favor for a loved one.

It’s a whole other thing to be roped into helping someone you don’t know, with a mammoth task – and the expectation that it will be done for free.

$30 is a more than reasonable price for such a hefty job.

Let’s see what folks on Reddit thought about this.

This person was totally on his side.

While others had harsh words for the sister and her friend.

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Meanwhile, this Redditor offered him some clear advice on communication for the future.

He was willing to handle the badly overgrown front and back yards, but only asked for $30 once he saw how much work was involved.

His sister called that selfish and told him to forget it, saying she would find someone else instead.

Thirty dollars ended up costing the job a whole lot more than thirty dollars.