A contractor asked me to do a proper dry stone wall, using stone from a local quarry, in front of a house that he had just finished building, for a client up near Meaford Ontario.
I met with him, decided where it would go, we agreed on a price and I built the wall. For the several weeks, I think it took me to build it, I never met the lady who owned the house.
About a week later I got the call from the contractor. He told me the lady had moved in and had seen the wall.
I asked him what she thought of her wall.
"Actually," he said " she got quite emotional. She was crying."
"Oh wow" I said, "I'm glad to hear she liked it."
"No, no. She hated it. She said, all the upright stones on the top of the wall made it look like a prison. She wants you to come back and take them all off. "
I couldn't believe it.
I came back and took them off, and coped the wall with dull flat stones.
