What do you do when your mate is doing it tough?

[Biscuits]

As a person who had a bad run myself, and have always been very proud, I found it extremely difficult to ask for help. A few of my mates would get me do the work that they didnt want to do... Paint the walls of the shed, split their fire wood, rotate the wheels on their cars etc, etc, all the while playing dumb and saying that they couldn't do it coz they were too useless. Gave me a bit of self esteem to help out a mate who "could't" do it. It always ended in a few beers & a BBQ, or a load of wood for myself, or a couple of bucks to pay for the bus back home... they always dropped me back and there was a green note in the envelope. Maybe get your mate to help you out with the splitting the wood, and as a thank you, feed him a few beers, BBQ, and treat him to a trailer of the firewood that he has just split and stacked WITH YOU

I had one wealthy mate that was about as blunt as the back end of the axe, He would come over at least once a month, with a couple of cases of beer, a ctn of smokes, and enough meat to last me the month if I was being careful with my dinners. He would tell me that If he decided to come over for a BBQ, he dint want to cook or have to get the beer out of the fridge as that was "my job as he paid for all the grub!" we would have a few coldies and a couple of smokes, and then he would pat me on the back and say all is going to pan out, and we would go to his place for dinner. This went on for nearly 12 months. and if it wasnt for my mates forcing me to accept their help I dunno if I would have been able to make it through.