These aren’t terrible rates
You like a gardener with a sense of levity. When he received the text, he was expecting to have to trim the hedges, but he’d probably been around the block long enough to recognize an inadvertent text. All was okay as a result of a few moments of lightheartedness.
To avoid any ill will, the homeowner should offer the gardener a larger tip than usual, but forty dollars still sounds excessive. That money, if it wasn’t also silenced, is well worth the purchase.