I'm pissed off because I learnt that after I offered to do my partners aunt a favour she intended to profit from it by charging someone else for my free labour. Complicated but here goes. People involved: me, my partner (T), her dad (M), her aunt (by marriage, now a widow, H), one other who like me offered to assist for free (J, one of H's tenants).
I ive with my partner in a caravan in her fathers (large) garden, it's affordable, and, at least in the summer a nice place to be. Many of my partners family live along a stretch of road in a mid sized village.
H has 14 tenants in the village – many in the grounds of her enormous single occupancy house, and a few others nearby. Some of the family (not my partner and I), H and some of H's tenants use a shared, non mains waste water system which needs periodic emptying by tanker lorry, which would get to the place from where it would pump out the sewage using a stretch of driveway owned by H.
A few days ago I ended up with the job of showing the lorry driver how to get the where he needs to go. He said he would have to come back another day as the hedges either side would have to be cut back because he was in a new vehicle and refused to damage it. During this conversation J turned up, he and I both expressed a willingness to do what seemed a small hedge trimming job of 2-3 hours maximum.
I later found out that H wants to charge the others who use the sewage system a £100 (each I think) for making it possible to get the lorry into position using a stretch of her driveway.
To be clear: H will benefit from this not just financially, but also as her shit along with that of some of her paying tenants gets processed by this system, it also turns out she may be assuming that I, J or maybe someone else would trim the whole hedge, not just the bits that block the lorry which would make it significantly longer than a few hours. I also thought about it and compared the £14 hr I tend to make when I get paid for such work to the much larger hourly rate she wants to allow the likes of or J to do everyone a favour.
Not feeling like helping anymore. My partner feels that even though H is being unreasonable, so am I for backing out on doing a favour and for expressing anti-landlord prejudice – I even considered considered posting this to r/AITA, but decided for myself that this is bullshit and I'm definately NTA.