It never ceases to amaze me how inconsiderate some customers are. Some will sit there and let you climb over a gate before they would get off their arses to open it.
Some will keep you waiting at the door for 5 mins before finding the money to pay.
Others will refuse to open the door to you when you know they are in, cause the windows you just pushed shut are open again.
You leave tickets to say you have cleaned the windows, come back next day and they haven't got any money. "I didn't know you were coming", when you've been going there every month for 10 years.
We are expected not to mind mine fields of dog poo, piles of garden furniture and kids toys stacked behind the gate, Barbies being placed next to patio doors with grease spots all over them.
The majority of customers never give us a thought, until we knock for the money. They wouldn't even notice we had been unless we left a slip, and half the slips seem have gone unseen. I have cleaned for some customers for years, and they still leave the cheque blank where my name should be.
Some see us as monthly muggers, they open the door, see us, and their body language tells us to f--- off.
Matt, we all have them mate, they are just a means to an end. Their pennies pay for the really important things, our families.
When my son left home to do a two year Y.T.S fishing course he was just 16. I shed a tear at the time, I was choked for days, I was losing my best mate and fishing partner. It was time to let go, time for him to take the next step in life.
It's the same for your daughter mate, time to take the next step.
NOW GET OUT THERE NEXT WEEK, AND TAKE NO CRAP. Dai