Did you miss the part about very VERY?
You know, that sounds a lot like...when I was younger, I worked in a place with a bunch of late middle aged women...and apparently, as a young man, they felt the need to share things with me...lots of things.
This one lady would tell me how she had a standing deal with her husband that if he cleaned the house from top to bottom to her standards, he would get a....well...how not get banned...beejay. I asked how often he cleaned the house...she said "never"...I asked if he was just not interested or what. She said, no, he caught onto my game pretty quick...he'd spend all day cleaning the house, then I'd find one thing he didn't do right so I could get out of my end of the deal, 'cause I had no intention of paying up in the first place, so he did it twice I think and hasn't since.
That sounds just like this whole 'pie' deal.