I might as well chuck twopennorth in.......
Today is the first day I've done this Wednesdays round in a "new order" - it has always been messy, one house, then everything onto the van, three houses, all into the van and go 500 yards away....you know the sort of thing.
Now I've got it so that the van stays in one place all day, [not too far from the Co-op, where they sell nice "Bung" rolls, and bottles of cold drinkies], and I've put some of the other houses onto other rounds.
First house, "Thanks, here's your money, we won't need you again". Wifey at rear of kitchen, say's proudly, "He's going to do them himself from now on", "he" is 83!!
I don't care, it's the cheapest one I do, they were my first customers, and I've been doing them too cheap, for too long.
[Hope the tight b***ard falls through the asbestos roof over the rear conservatory!!!]
Does two more, and then gets approached by them at number 12 and number 13, "Can you fit us in?"
Of course I can, I don't have p*ss about moving the little blue frog, [Kangoo to you], so they more than compensate for the tight old git at the corner house.
Then the old bat at number 25 really makes my day!
I'm round the back doing the kitchen window, and she comes out and say's "Don't you think these new windows are really nice?" I looks at them, and then at her, "Well, they are OK, I suppose", I said.
I can't see anything special about them, they are white UPVC, fitted into big holes in the brickwork, and the gaps between the frames are filled with that stuff.....what the hell's it called? Oh yes! Glass, that's the stuff!
One of the sill endstops has always been missing; I noticed that one of these, supposedly new, windows, has a sill endstop missing.
"That's coincidental", I thought.
She goes on about them again, telling me about how her new windows are so nice.
I said, "How long have you had them?"
"Oh, about three years", she said
"I've only been coming here for about eleven months", I said, "so these are the same ones that I've always cleaned".
"Oh yes", she said, "of course", and goes in to put the kettle on!!!!!!!
Is it me?
Baldeagle in Staffordshire
