[Duke]

     I thought everyone knew that ! lol....

[Ian_Giles]

Doesnt it annoy you when: A customer ring to complain about the standard of your work, there are smears all over one of the upstairs windows
The following day you dutifully turn up at her house, in an area you have now finished, and in resigned fashion lug off your ladders, climbing up to the window in question

Don't you just love it when: You are looking at the window and can't see a mark on it, you shrug your shoulders and look at the customer through the glass with an expression that looks like this 
"There! there!" She points out, "Can't you see it!"
As she reaches out her hand to indicate the offending smear..............And rubs the glass  her finger smears the 'smear' 
Its amazing how red a face can go, and I'm sure a large pair of jackass ears extended out of the top of her head
They are just so apologetic, so dreadfully sorry, you of course tell them it is not a problem (it was ) Don't worry about it (no, do! do!) Their satisfaction with your work is very important to you (that bits true :)
It may be a pain, but watching them shrivel inside with embarrasment, hoping the ground will open up and swallow them makes it worth it

Mind how you go,

Ian

[Duke]

hmmm, I've had a bit of that too from time to time...I'm afraid I'm not as patient as you...I charge a call out fee if it's really not my fault....(same price as the clean....PLUS diesel money and time.) I don't get many...eejut's....

[rosskesava]

Toady we'd re arranged how we did today's jobs and left early to do a first clean.

The lady phoned us last week and we had a look on the way home one night. I  phoned her with the price which she was happy with, and a date and rough time was agreed.

We get there bright and early today and she'd changed her mind.

[Duke]

 .....as an afterthought to the last couple of posts...on those days when you're really racked off with the world at large....try this.. www.grumpieroldmen.co.uk
I find it a great 'let off steam'  (I post as Grumplestiltskin)...I recommend it !

[Duke]

yep, that link works....choose the "forum' option, if you are interested !

[rosskesava]

I read the paragraph below posted on another forum. Guess which one and guess who posted the one before?     

   'Very Happy lol....nothing wrong with 'Window Cleaners" matey...I'm proud to be one. And I didn't have to do 5 years in UNI to be one (though I did anyway...but for some other venture)... Pure Water Science...check it out.'

Great forum www.grumpieroldmen.co.uk

It's great place to post 'doesn't it annoy you' things in general.

[Duke]

I had a sneaking suspicion it was a wind up....but I'll defend window cleaners to the death !...lol

[windows_chepstow]

On another forum of a wind-up nature, I've been stirring the hornets nest about what an excellent job we have.

One wit, to get back at me posted this, which I thought was brilliant.  It made me laugh, though could be quite true in a satirical sense.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/grumcun/flyer.jpg

Oh, if you peruse the site, don't take what I say too literally.  They've been flogging me to death for being a window cleaner; saying stuff like I have to get out to work early to beat the Eastern Europeans to the traffic lights (suggesting that I clean car windscreens).

It's all a bit of mindless fun really.

[Ian_Giles]

I guess you don't want others to use that example of a flier in case they steal your thunder Tosh, I'm sure I've seen it hanging out of letterboxes around town!


Ian

[Duke]

yeah....err, nicely presented...should get loads more work in......

[karlosdaze]

Do you charge for designs?
Please pm me with details, prices & how quick you can do them for me.
I'll probably need around 5000 first off & we'll go from there.

[Ian_Giles]

Doesn't it annoy you when: You try to hunt for your post, to put in a ironic quip, only to find someone has lumped it in under a general tab of 'More funny stories'


Doesn't it annoy you when: You are slaving away at your replies on Cleanitup, listening to your music you have illegally downloaded over the years Only for your wife to moan at you and tell you to plug in your headphones or TURN IT DOWN!!!
Having complied with said directive, the wife then continues to talk to you, knowing full well you can't here a thing with, say, Sandstorm by Darude cranked up to full volume. With head nodding to the beat, and fingers tripping over the keys as I make my postings, a tealight candle catches me in the back of the head, I lift one side of headphone and turn enquiringly to a red faced wife who is screaming at me to TURN IT DOWN!!!
You then have to have the headphones perched idiotically with one ear free as she continues to keep talking, usually to berate me for having it to loud, and why can't I TURN IT DOWN!!!
I happen to like the ringing in my ears, at the local rugby club in my home town of Cinderford, as a teenager on a Friday night  there was nothing I liked better than to insert my head into the cone of a huge speaker that had the front missing, whilst the late departed Jimi Hendrix belted out his version of Johnny be good
When its quiet now all I can here is a loud humming, like a huge speaker system turned up full volume, but with nothing playing......Oh God! Now I've started talking about it I've made myself aware of it......I wonder what total silence actually sounds like?

Eh?......what was that you said?? TURN IT DOWN!!!.........sigh, ok, anything for an easy life


Ian

[rosskesava]

Isn't it annoying when your missus is away and you have to go to bed because you've got work in the morning.

What a good day though. Did bu**er all. Got up at 2pm instead of the usual 9am. Ate rubbish food for breakfast (none of that healthy stuff) and watched TV. Ordered a take away this evening and played silly pc games.

She's back tomorrow so I'd best put the laundry in the wash basket and have a quick tidy up.

[dustycorner]

Hi,

I gave a 17yr old a start has a favour to a friend, he lasted 3 days knew it all from day one. We sent him into BnQ s for a box of fallopian tubes made us laugh .

[Roy Harding]

I went to clean a new customer with my brother- inlaw and this old lady came out, and asked did we want hot water. My brother-inlaw as quick as a flash,says only if it has a tea bag in it. We got to the back of house, the door opens out comes the old girl,  with a silver tray best china and chock bars.

[Duke]

Yeah, they're great them jobs.....but tell you what....anybody ever get took short...and not a bog in sight ? I know what I do, but how about you lot ?

[Roy Harding]

Nearly all the lads that have worked for me, would find some where quiet, when they thought a customer was not in. As they were in full flight I would suddenly say Hello I dint think there was anybody home. All hell would break loose.

Then revenge It was a bitter cold day and I was dessperate by 10.00am. And no where to go at 3.00pm you all know how bad it can get. We came to a house no one home ideal spot. I had finished the bottom and the boy was just doing the last of on the ladder. So I took the moment, Just now he says hello peter i did not think there was any one home. I turn looked at him and grined and carried on, then he said something else, the customer was standing watching me soak his wall in clouds of steam and could not stop. . Could have died.

[rosskesava]

I was desperate to go once. One of those times where you cannot stand still.

I was on this flat roof and I couldn't wait anymore so I peed into the downpipe of the guttering as not only were the owners out but no one from the other houses could see me.

As I climbed down the ladder I realised this downpipe went into a waterbut which the owner said (the following month and yes, I had to ask) he used to water the plants indoors.

 

[Mortabre]

I've got a good one!

I walked up to the gate of a customer and she was sitting on the front lawn.

I called over to her : "Is your Alsation in the house, 'cos I'm sure he wants to sink his teeth into my backside."

She peered at over the top of her sunglasses and replied : "wouldn't we all dear!"