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lame plumber
Planned to stop work thurs pm, failed miserably, was working all day Friday and this morning!!
So being a grumpy git, I was putting in customer supplied taps yesterday am for a daft old mare, finished the bathroom set, having thrown all her cheap washers away and used reliable ones fm my box to stop the bath mixer set spewing all over. Off to go and she produced a mixer for the kitchen, wacked it in, lunch was calling!!! and went to leave, but she had her tape out and the mixer was a couple of mm out compared to the other side, fairs nough, out spanner into cupboard and all sorted, tummy calling now its 1535!! So walked round bath, basin, toilet basin and kitchen taps: proved they all work , hot on left and cold on right, big smiles all round fm me that is, and got paid, ITS XMAS I'm on holiday..................... brrrrrm brrrrrm off I goes.
1/2 an hour later, I'm in pub with mate enjoying beer n sarnie, RING RING, begga, "Hello Mr Davies its Miss ......, its an emergency you havent got the hot on the right side in the kitchen! Oh pooh, so I ask is the hot coming out the left tap? Oh yes says she, Is that the side it normally comes out, Oh yes says she,
so what do you seem to think the emergency is asks I?, the right hand tap has an H etched into it says she, I had to use my strong glasses and a magnifying glass to see it, but you have put it in all wrong and it needs changing today!!!! ( I am being truthful about the magnifying glass folks, no exaggeration here!!
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Being as I didnt even see an H or C on the blessed tap when I popped them in and they are the best wickes can provide, I had just installed them in the normal working manner. So I explained I'd pop back next week to sort, she raised her voice demanding I attend now, I said sorry it will have to be after Xmas now as I see the diary is full, now I look. So she shouted some more and the date moved right to the New Year and off went the phone, me thumb slipped.
Ring ring, begga me, HELLO, "hello Mr D" says a lovely old lady I do work for, my loo wont flush can you pop over, as I cant get a bucket up the stairs as my hip is gone again, so finish my one sarnie and pint and off I go to sort her out. Didnt ask for more than a tenner as she always feeds me and it was only a syphon diaphragm needing replacing, after all its Xmas.
So I aint a real barsteward, just dont take being shouted at or people raising their voices at me for bleedin emergencies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As it happened had more of the same this morning, but wasnt so generous with the discount, chaps got to live
So I am thinking I must curb my shortness with all customers, after all its good for business, thats my new years resolution
feck it, sod em, if they act like pratts they can feck off so that was my new years resolution for 2015
So being a grumpy git, I was putting in customer supplied taps yesterday am for a daft old mare, finished the bathroom set, having thrown all her cheap washers away and used reliable ones fm my box to stop the bath mixer set spewing all over. Off to go and she produced a mixer for the kitchen, wacked it in, lunch was calling!!! and went to leave, but she had her tape out and the mixer was a couple of mm out compared to the other side, fairs nough, out spanner into cupboard and all sorted, tummy calling now its 1535!! So walked round bath, basin, toilet basin and kitchen taps: proved they all work , hot on left and cold on right, big smiles all round fm me that is, and got paid, ITS XMAS I'm on holiday..................... brrrrrm brrrrrm off I goes.
1/2 an hour later, I'm in pub with mate enjoying beer n sarnie, RING RING, begga, "Hello Mr Davies its Miss ......, its an emergency you havent got the hot on the right side in the kitchen! Oh pooh, so I ask is the hot coming out the left tap? Oh yes says she, Is that the side it normally comes out, Oh yes says she,
so what do you seem to think the emergency is asks I?, the right hand tap has an H etched into it says she, I had to use my strong glasses and a magnifying glass to see it, but you have put it in all wrong and it needs changing today!!!! ( I am being truthful about the magnifying glass folks, no exaggeration here!!
)Being as I didnt even see an H or C on the blessed tap when I popped them in and they are the best wickes can provide, I had just installed them in the normal working manner. So I explained I'd pop back next week to sort, she raised her voice demanding I attend now, I said sorry it will have to be after Xmas now as I see the diary is full, now I look. So she shouted some more and the date moved right to the New Year and off went the phone, me thumb slipped.
Ring ring, begga me, HELLO, "hello Mr D" says a lovely old lady I do work for, my loo wont flush can you pop over, as I cant get a bucket up the stairs as my hip is gone again, so finish my one sarnie and pint and off I go to sort her out. Didnt ask for more than a tenner as she always feeds me and it was only a syphon diaphragm needing replacing, after all its Xmas.
So I aint a real barsteward, just dont take being shouted at or people raising their voices at me for bleedin emergencies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As it happened had more of the same this morning, but wasnt so generous with the discount, chaps got to live
So I am thinking I must curb my shortness with all customers, after all its good for business, thats my new years resolution
feck it, sod em, if they act like pratts they can feck off
so that was my new years resolution for 2015
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