When I first started I had a small job (£5), which went 3 months without payment even though I left a note asking for payment on about 5 occasions,
Finally I went round and as I walked up the path I looked up to see the husband sat at his computer in the upstairs bedroom, and I could see the wife in the kitchen as the window was next to the front door.
I knocked on the door and the wife just walked out of the kitchen past the front door and up stairs, At first I assumed she had seen me and gone to get the money, but after a while when she never came down again I began to wonder if something was up, so I knocked again, Nothing. After the fourth knock I decided to go over the road to collect and then come back.
The bloke over the road is a great guy and after a chin wag I made my way to the first house, as I got to the end of his drive I looked up to see her peering around the bedroom door and him keep bobbing his head up to look over the window sill to see if I had gone, so I walked into the middle of the road and stood under a street lamp, as he looked up I gave him a wave. (I'd swear he hit his nose on the sill on the way down)
When I knocked she came down and her first words were "did you not get my cheque with the cancellation letter which I sent a month ago?"
No I said has the cheque been cashed?
erm err
Obviously I never got it then did I.
So she paid up and I walked of laughing my head off.
Now every time I see her I give her a friendly wave and bust out laughing.
Neil