u/UnReasonable-Teapot

Okay, this is an odd one, that I'm not sure how to deal with, and some insight would be good.

2 months ago we got a local handyman to come and cut the grass after winter. Our mower broke down, and he said for 30€ he would come every 2 weeks and cut both back and front garden. My husband and I took him up for it, since we both hate cutting the grass.

Since then, the guy is taking the piss. Asking money in advance, cutting just the front garden, saying he needs to go empty the van, and he'll be back in an hour to do the back, and then just vanishing. He stopped coming every two weeks, and now he only texts when he clearly needs the money.

My husband and I got fed up with his attitude after last month he said he needed to go home because he forgot the saw to cut the hedges, and would come back the next day, but didn't show. He reached out 3 weeks later to cut the grass and finish the hedges, but I blocked him on WhatsApp in the meantime.

I thought he took the hint because he never followed up, but today he reached out to me through Revolut! And I'm here like "that a hit dude! You can't just vanish and think you still have a job with us anymore".

How do I get rid of him? I don't want to be overly confrontational, specially because he knows where we live, but he's clearly not getting it.
Has anyone dealt with this sort of situation before?

I'm going to start my rant by saying that I'm European so I might not fully grasp what's happening in the US romance literary world.

In the last few months I've been coming across more and more books where the MC's names are spelled... oddly.

I've seen Nevaeh before, and although I found it odd, it wasn't totally out of left field.

But recently I'm finding it too much and it's giving me the ick and I simply DNF those books.

I've recently seen Jaxon, Klhoey, Rhyme, etc.

It came to a head yesterday when I picked up a book and the FMC was Quynh. And I just stared at the page thinking... why???? What's the problem with Quinn???

And it wasn't a romantasy book, where we see made up names all the time. It was your regular contemporary, small town romance.

Is it a new trend? It's honestly coming to a point where if the MC's names in the blurb are something like this, even if the plot might sound interesting, I'm simply not buying.

I understand that there might be actual people with those names, and I do agree that we need to vary. I lost count on how many books I've read that the FMC's name was Maggie. But at the same time... how did we go from having 500 books with Maggie to Quynh?? There are soooo many different names out there, why are writers going with totally odd spelling of perfectly normal names?