A beer and a curry later.
What a day.
You know sometimes you should just stay in bed, well today was that day for me.
Busy day today, I normally leave my big houses for Saturdays, big houses, bigger prices. So I had a good days takings ahead of me.
8:30. Phone my first job to make sure she'd be there.( funny old dear living in a house the size of Telford.) "No dont come today dear I'm on me way out" D'oh. Never mind I think. Put the phone down and pull off the drive. Oh B*ll*cks I shout. The hose pipe was still attached to me van. Open up the van to see lots of stretched and broken pipes. Luckily it was the feed pipe so no water leaking or lost. Silly me.
8:45. Listen to the wife go on and on and on.
9:00. Arrive at my next job. Lovely big house with great windows. Connect up my new short pole for the downstairs which my wife was planning on doing. Pump on. Water everywhere. Hole in the pipe. Big moaning session about the pole suppliers and the fact it was its first outing. "I know, I'll just cut the pipe and re connect it." D'oh. Cut the pipe, fetched tool box, no spanner the right size. Result. One out of action pole.
9:45. House next door. Huge place but with pretty scabby windows. Managed to get tangled arround every solar powered garden light in the the vacinity.
10:15. Home for coffee and to fix tiny pole. Got spanners and removed the compression valve. Removed olive and sleeve. Got new olive as old one was a bit squashed. Put back together. Water everywhere again. The connection was leaking and I hadn't cut the dodgy bit of pipe off anyway. What a noggin, Finally got it rocking. What a clever chap I am.
11:00. Drove to a new customers house to price up windows and gutter cleaning. Lovely lady, got the job. Then really impressed her when my beloved van failed to start on her drive. Starter motor or something else. Rolled off her drive hoping to pick up enough speed to try and bump start it.
Long story short. Spent the rest of the day tangled up with solar lights and bump starting me van. Fell over and nearly broke me back at the same time."is the pole ok?" my wife shouted. I cant repeat what I said.
Well, finally make it back to he ranch only to find the dog had been sick in the hall way and one or both of then had had the bin out.
Still,
Mustn't Grumble.
Sorry to go on for so long but it has made me feel slightly better. Or is that the beer.
Ant
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