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« on: August 23, 2007, 09:31:45 PM » |
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Some years ago i was cleaning windows in a close . i had 4 jobs in a row .I turned up on a nice dry day cleaned all 4 house's & left them all a bill each to say that i had cleaned the windows . later that day it rained . that evening sitting at home i had a phone call from a lady said that she was not paying me because it had rained .fine i said thats ok . she asked that next mouth could i still clean her windows .yes fine .thank you she said & she put the phone down . next mouth came really hot day . i did not clean her windows. that night came the phone call .you have not cleaned my windows . i know. i thought it was going to rain so i left them. will you do them next time .yes of cause i said. next mouth came nice day .again missed her out .again phone call came. you missed me again . i know but i thought it was going to rain so i left them .this went on for about a year .she give up in the end . I still clean the 3 other house's .the lady has gone though 4 other window cleaners . she did come out a few mouths ago . i looked up at the sky and said it could rain today her windows are really dirty .it puts a smile on my face everytime i look at them. i hope it give her a lesson not to be so stupid
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2007, 09:59:37 PM » |
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got to job today, pulled hoses out and lady comes out, please could you do insides instead. Me and my dad look at each other and just say yes ( no trad equipment ) so so we shot off home and got the squeegees. Lesson learnt, always carry the squeegee, it earnt us an extra £25 quid!!! Luke
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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2007, 10:18:26 PM » |
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2007, 11:56:12 PM » |
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i just got the funny one liners off ppl that i've heard Are you a window cleaner? do i have to pay cos you left my windows wet? not to day i just put the cat to sleep! (apperently he had been ill, i mean the cat not the custy  ) Please dont clean my windows no more, your ladder make the house shake!
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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2007, 07:42:53 AM » |
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thats what gives me motivation winding people up, and making them realise how daft their comments are , often takes a while though, funny story that one keep them coming!
had a guy throw a complete fit the other day, because my hose was 'dragging along the front of his driveway' went from 'please can you move it' to 'ill stick my spade through it!'. he did the action and everything, i think he had that illness where you cant control your temper, proper funny!
are you a window cleaner?
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2007, 10:27:28 AM » |
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one area i do the same bunch of kids come along and while the pole is against the window and cleaning it, they ask "what are you doing?" every flippin time i am there. kids eh.
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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2007, 02:43:24 PM » |
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I had a funny one, did a ladies bungalow and she came to the door, asked for £8 as usual and she said "you do such a good job and your always polite, etc I'm putting the price up to £10!" I was well chuffed, thank you very much "mind this is not a tip she said, this is a price rise!" Brill I thought! Next month do house and go to the door, hi there ten please. woman says "what ten!?, thought it was 8" "you put it up yourself remember!?" "errrrr. .. . no i dont think i did, not willing to pay ten, eight or i'll find sum1 else" I said find some1 else then! Just as I was about to turn and storm up the path she gave me a  and gave me the ten, just playing she said! 80 odd and as sharp as a button!
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2007, 03:33:19 PM » |
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a few yrs back i was cleaning a window and this woman said oi you left a bloody big mark there i had to say sorry love its on the inside oh she says can you clean the mark off then yes i said but you have to let me in why cant you do it from there she says to cut a lnog story short she thought i could rub the outside off the glass and it wud remove the mark on the inside
hard to belive i know i puzzled for days after that
had this 1 last week aswell
i hope ur only chargin me half price why i asked coz you aint got any soap in ur water thats why young man
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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2007, 04:37:39 PM » |
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went to clean a old ladies house be doing it for about a year she came out to my lad and said your not my normal guy i came down from tops so she can see me and say hello and she still went on that i dont clean her windows next thing she said how much is it then looked at her b******s couldnt remember went to look in my book then couldnt remember what the road was called had to ask her she started going on see you dont even know what road it is couldnt win even i showed her the book eventaly .so left it next month comes didnt say a thing just cleaned as normal
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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2007, 07:12:32 PM » |
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cleaned a indian resturant twice second time cheeky b*****d tried to pay me in popadoms 
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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2007, 08:06:10 AM » |
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I went out canvassing one evening on a posh estate. I
I did loads in the street already but there was never anybody at home there while I was working and I wanted to pick up a few more customers in the street.
I had my head down in the notebook as I walked up a driveway and rang the bell. A lady answered the door and I asked her if she had a window cleaner or whether she would be interested in the service.
"Yes I would like a window cleaner" She said sounding annoyed. "I do have a window cleaner but he charges me £12 just for the fronts!"
(I stepped back a sec and looked at the windows, - typical semi, with 3 easy picture windows, usually £5 full house at the time.)
"£12 quid!!", I said surprised, "Dear me! I think you're being ripped off!"
Then I took another look at the windows, another look at my book and realized it was one of MY customers!!
I felt a right numpty but I did admit to her that it was me that had charged her £12, and I was her window cleaner.
(The reason I'd charged £12 is because they had had some building work done - hence the reason I didn-t recognize the house - and there was concrete left all over the windows which had took me ages to clean.)
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« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2007, 06:01:34 PM » |
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i turned up at the wrong house one day. 2 house down from the one i should of been doing. cleaned all the windows knocked on the front door. a man answes . yes. just cleaned all the windows . how much. £15 please . pays me & thanks me . never went back after that . i would of liked to be a fly on the wall that night .
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« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2007, 06:07:40 PM » |
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its not funny as in haha but funny (weird) none the less, went and priced a house (well bloody large farm house and converted barn) just up the road from our village. Priced it well and got the job  but when it came to cleaning them a few days later the woman of the house came running out and went through a whole list of windows i couldn't touch until the swallows migrated south for the winter in a few months time  needless to say there was nearly foot high piles of bird dung everywhere... 
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« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2007, 06:30:28 PM » |
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went out today, using the pole coz its more safe? lol walking up a path with pole in hand and microbore wrapped round my trolley, someone wanted my attention the microbore came loose without me knowing and wrapped round my legs, skelp i was on the floor face first, cuts and bruises pole knackered now as i used that to try and break my fall, only thing i could do was lie there laughing my head off. safer to use poles?  wally.
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« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2007, 08:10:33 PM » |
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i was out today on pole,this little girl was shouting at her mum all time that bin man is funny,trying to tell the little girl im window cleaner,but no she was not having it,hey bin man she kept saying ha ha god help bin mon.
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« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2007, 08:29:00 PM » |
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I'll keep this short. Cleaning with mate (his job). Old lady come out, Where is he? Up there madam, cleaning your window. She goes balistic. Told him not to go on that roof (it's a porch above the front door). That roof is 1770 or some such cr*p. She had not told him to stay off the roof at all. She had seen ladders up the side before and thought the window in question had been cleaned from there. With 8 foot arms maybe. It might have been funny in the morning, but not at the end of the day. She currently doesn't have a window cleaner and I ain't passing her details onto anyone 
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« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2007, 10:30:28 PM » |
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hi lads i went to clean these two semi,s i,ve been cleaning for years as per normal iwould clean the fronts fisrt then go round the back and climb over the fence to next door no problem done it loads of times but this certain day when i got back in the van to fill in the diary as you do i heard lots of police cars coming down the street thinking where was they going yes you guessed it they was after me some prat up the road had rung the old bill thinking i was a burgular there was 3 police cars and 6 coppers with in minutes great response thuogh!!!! after laugh don,t yer nick
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« Reply #18 on: August 30, 2007, 02:31:04 PM » |
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Hehehehe How long have you got boys? After 20 odd years in the game I've had some classics but a couple do still bring a smile to my devastatingly handsome mug. Me and my oppo were doing some posh old bird's house when she came out with 2 steaming mugs of tea. When we'd finished she came round the back so we prepared to hand back our empty mugs. I gave her mine without incident, however my mate Max decided he'd give his a shake to get rid of the dregs upon which it flew away from the handle and hit the unfortunate lady right in the moosh. Another tea related incident occurred when we were round the back of a house with a large conservatory and I was on the tops while Max was doing the conservatory roof off an A frame ladder. While he was up there he decided he needed a slash so instead of coming down and asking to use the loo he decided to whip out his little soldier and relieve himself into the guttering around the conservatory at which point the custy appeared on the scene with 2 cups of rosy and stood there holding them out while a stream of steaming jimmy flowed out of the downpipe and formed a lovely yellow pool around her feet. We lost that job  I dunno boys some people are soooooo touchy.
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« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2007, 04:58:38 PM » |
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A wc in taunton has been using the water fed pole system .He use's about 20,000 liters of water a week . one day he's at home and 3 wessex water board vans & 1 lorry turns up in his road .They start digging up the road after two days they leave and thinks no more about it . two weeks go by and he has a knock at the door .The water board are at his door .Are you a window cleaner . yes . how do you clean the windows .with pure water . do you do that from home . yes .can we see your system . yes ok and he shows the water board that he has a 1000 liter tank in the back garden .he thens ask's the water board whats all this about .Well sir we thought we had a major leak. So two weeks ago we dug up the road & found nothing . we could not understand what was going on intill i looked in the yellow pages for window cleaners & found out that you lived in the same street as the major leak .right ok .sir here is your bill for £750.00 which you need to pay within 14 days if not then we will cut you off .we will also be fitting a water meter to this address .the window cleaner was dumb founded . the water board did fit a meter and he now pays between £500 & £700 every 4 months for his water . He was thinking about moving
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« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2007, 06:48:08 PM » |
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How can he go through 20,000 litres a week 
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He must be cleaning a hell of a lot of windows!!
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« Reply #23 on: August 30, 2007, 08:11:54 PM » |
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they have 3 vans it takes about 3000 liters to make 1000 liters of pure water
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« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2007, 08:01:51 AM » |
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clearing window sills inside posh office in brum town centre,picked up a small dish not realising it had water in it,water went to spill and natural instinct i went to catch it resulting in me throwing water all over office bird talk about wet t-shirt competition luckily she saw the funny side.
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