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chrismroberts

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"Its a little business all of its own"
« on: June 24, 2008, 08:09:51 pm »
Customer made me smile today, we were chatting and he said...

"So is this your full time income now?"

My reply... "Oh aye, 2 years now"

He says... "Well I never realised.... I suppose its a little business all of its own!"

Little? Made me chuckle.... just do the math...  :P
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Captain Scarlet

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2008, 08:19:54 pm »
do you have a signwritten van? Luke
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chrismroberts

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2008, 08:22:59 pm »
No, not yet... but have just leased a new one so will be looking into getting it all logo'd up :D
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Captain Scarlet

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2008, 08:30:21 pm »
Nice, that should stop them type of people!!!!  :) Luke
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chrismroberts

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2008, 09:05:04 pm »
Quote from: Rupertthehair on June 24, 2008, 08:30:21 pm
Nice, that should stop them type of people!!!!  :) Luke

I hope so :) And maybe attract some work too :)
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Joe Lauzon

Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2008, 10:15:36 pm »
Quote from: sheepmeister on June 24, 2008, 08:09:51 pm
Customer made me smile today, we were chatting and he said...

"So is this your full time income now?"

My reply... "Oh aye, 2 years now"

He says... "Well I never realised.... I suppose its a little business all of its own!"

Little? Made me chuckle.... just do the math...  :P


Aye, the general public think we are schmucks on minimum wage.  Thats fine with me  ;D
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Nathanael Jones

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2008, 11:25:43 pm »
Even with the signwritten van, uniform, website etc etc,... I still get that kind of comment every now and then! Public perception is often that its just beer money,..... and in times gone by that was probably true for the majority of shiners.
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davids3511

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2008, 11:36:33 pm »
It always amazes me that people don't see how long you take to do there house and multiply it by 7 hours. They would be shocked.
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chrismroberts

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2008, 11:51:44 pm »
Quote from: davids3511 on June 24, 2008, 11:36:33 pm
It always amazes me that people don't see how long you take to do there house and multiply it by 7 hours. They would be shocked.

Exactly :P :P I guess its a good thing really.....

I mean I do 7 houses on his cul de sac, it made me chuckle :P
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peter holley

Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2008, 06:58:52 am »
thats why i dont think we will be too affected by the credit crunch hype... in peoples minds they pay a small amount each month to help the wc pay for his beer :o

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Neil271052

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2008, 07:54:39 am »
.........or sometimes a large amount.  ;)
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*Chris Browne

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2008, 09:55:14 am »
I had a comment a few years ago, "is it like a proper job"?

grrrrr
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Glyn H

Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2008, 10:03:27 am »
Any business with under 50 employees in the EU is officially clasified as a "small business", in the USA "small" is any business with less than 100 employees.
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Dean Aspects

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2008, 10:05:06 am »
One self employed customer of mine asked dont you do anything else? you cant make enough from just window cleaning  ::)
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gary999

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2008, 06:25:34 pm »
had one today ex teacher lovely woman but a bit patronising i imagine
due to have been a professional  :) was sympathising with me on how it must
be difficult earning so little,especially with a family to feed.

felt like a character from a charles dickens novel ;D
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boshravie

Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2008, 06:54:37 pm »
Well guys, let them think like that, if they knew about our little secret , we will have more competition  ;)

Regards

Bosh
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chrismroberts

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2008, 07:55:40 pm »
Quote from: boshravie on June 25, 2008, 06:54:37 pm
Well guys, let them think like that, if they knew about our little secret , we will have more competition  ;)

Regards

Bosh

Hear hear  ;)
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davids3511

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2008, 07:58:38 pm »
Quote from: Dean Thorlby Aspects on June 25, 2008, 10:05:06 am
One self employed customer of mine asked dont you do anything else? you cant make enough from just window cleaning  ::)

Sounds to me like he is due a price increase ;D
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Londoner

Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2008, 08:06:27 pm »
To hell with all these customers thinking we are on the breadline.........

Its the taxman we gotta convince !
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chrismroberts

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Re: "Its a little business all of its own"
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2008, 08:08:11 pm »
Quote from: Vince Green on June 25, 2008, 08:06:27 pm
To hell with all these customers thinking we are on the breadline.........

Its the taxman we gotta convince !

Aye, too right... dunno bout you, but I'm skint!!  :o :o
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