I've been cleaning a new estate for a year now, I got asked by a friend to clean hers when she moved in and she got me most of the road so I said yes, now this estate is in two phases and the phase I do was the second one, when I got there I found out that someone else does the other phase so I never leafleted it out of courtesy although I do clean 3 on the first phase as I was recommended to them. Last week for the first time I met the other cleaner, he had lads running everywhere cleaning off ladders and also wfp. The 1st lad I saw gave me the 'look' so I smiled and waved haha . Then I moved my van round and the rest of his crew came to one of the houses next to me, he started quizin me an asked how long I'd cleaned on there so I replied about a year. He then said he had been there from the start so I laughed an smiled and replied 'your not going to go down the this is my patch route are you' he just changed the subject to tell me how he cleans all over the northwest, in fact he got that carried away I thought he was goin to say he cleaned every house in england haha
One of the other lads was close to me again later on so I was chattin to him an he said that his boss was a a++hole an he had a right attitude so I just smiled and said I know. Got to say I watched these lads clean an my god they were awful. The lads on the ladders missed windows and the wfp lad never rinsed one single window.
My moral is if you are approached then kill the buggers with kindness, give them your biggest smile and wave , I always do an it makes me laugh for the rest of the day
Happy cleaning guys