With your attitude, its no wonder that the window cleaning trade has a bad image.
It use to be that a window cleaner was classed as a dole cheat - villian and bully, with your wonderfull use of the english language, its seems that there are some of them still about.
When I was brought up its was considered good manners to say please and thankyou - not to swear or pick your nose - always open doors for ladies, help the elderly to cross the road or carry their shopping for them and if you are a tradesman not to smoke while you are working at your customers houses.
Its not that important if you have a shinny new van or if you wear a uniform, buts it is very important that you show your customers RESPECT and have GOOD MANNERS.
As for you smoking in front of me, I have no problem with this and would not object, but If I was paying you do do some work for me then, I would insist that you didn't smoke.
And yes we do live in a world with too many rules and regulations, but this is down to the idiots and prats who don't have any sense in their heads, so if left to the goverment to try to kept them safe and healthy.
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there you go william, judging me.
you think i give the window cleaning business a bad name purely because i smoke at cussties houses and my attitude (to you),
think again, 1. ive never been on the dole, so i couldnt cheat the system if i wanted to,
2. all my customers...All.... know im a retained firefighter in my village.they respect me for the job i do 24/7 365 days a year, im not just your every day window cleaner, so when ive been out all night saving a life /animal or even someones house, i still get up and go clean there windows,so i dont think any one of my cussties would begrudge me smoking whilst doing there windows. ok you and some others on here have there opinions to smoking and where you can smoke, and i have mine, we are all open to opinons,
smoking opinions with me really get me wound up, normally from ex smokers, they are the worst.
im sorry if i went off the rails, but you wound the wrong guy up.
Haydn