I had a customer who let me clean all the front windows, then came out just as I had finished them , to tell me she didn't want them doing this time. No problem, said I, with a smile, as she closed the door.
A few months passed, without me going back to the house, when a customer over the road, with whom the ex-customers are friends, told me they wanted me to clean their windows again.
It was the husband who wanted me to do them, and it was the wife who had 'cancelled'. I explained that I can't do them in view of what happened to me the last time.
I did feel a bit bad, strangely enough, but then I felt I had been treated shabbily, and now never go back to anyone who treats me this way.
I am always polite, but I must admit I may be fuming underneath, and almost feel a grudging admiration for those of you who really say it how it is!
John.