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Title: Me and my big mouth ...
Post by: AuRavelling79 on March 21, 2012, 09:00:39 pm
So Dan the man (my trusty employee) gets asked by this ex custy of mine to do his windows - Dan being polite and helpful asks me over and I trot over - realising who it is I say loudly:-

"I won't be cleaning your windows as your wife was really rude to me, told me not to clean her windows and ignored me ever since!"

Old boy says - "Well my wife is dead so that won't be a problem will it? ...."

 :-[
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Post by: stuart mc on March 21, 2012, 09:03:25 pm
 ;D ;D sorry that is funny
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Post by: Steve CM on March 21, 2012, 09:04:22 pm
I bet you felt a right tool. Foot in mouth time ;)
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Post by: CLEANCARE WC on March 21, 2012, 09:07:31 pm
CLASSIC
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Post by: Frankybadboy on March 21, 2012, 09:13:56 pm
have you had a day out with trippy, gold :P
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Post by: Jimmy Jon on March 21, 2012, 10:56:41 pm
So, did you clean his windows Malc? 
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Post by: rosskesava on March 21, 2012, 11:39:10 pm
That's a gem.

 ;D
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Post by: stuart mc on March 21, 2012, 11:42:13 pm
So, did you clean his windows Malc? 

I would have, for free
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Post by: G Griffin on March 21, 2012, 11:54:31 pm
I'd ask for proof of her death, first.................and then turn him down.
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Post by: stuart mc on March 21, 2012, 11:59:02 pm
I'd ask for proof of her death, first.................and then turn him down.
your mean >:( ;D
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Post by: G Griffin on March 22, 2012, 12:08:12 am
I'd ask for proof of her death, first.................and then turn him down.
your mean >:( ;D

No, no, no, Stu. She could be hiding behind the curtains, wanting her windows cleaned but unwilling to ask herself. In cases like this, my rules are death or apologise; with still no guarantees of a clean.
If she's dead, then maybe; if the bloke seems ok.
Only joking, I'd have done them if he seemed like a genuine customer.
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Post by: colin purewater on March 22, 2012, 04:00:37 pm
Fantastic!! You can't even say " sorry for your loss"
Coz he nows you think she's a bitch  :D
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Post by: elite mike on March 22, 2012, 05:30:36 pm
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: gary999 on March 22, 2012, 05:35:19 pm
brilliant ;D ;D ;D ;D

you can have a gold plated banjo for that one ;D ;D
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Post by: rosskesava on March 22, 2012, 05:41:14 pm
Did you ask where the body was?

It could have been under the patio.
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Post by: Tom White on March 22, 2012, 05:44:28 pm
Old boy says - "Well my wife is dead so that won't be a problem will it? ...."

 :-[

Are you sure you can trust him?  It sounds like something I would come out with for a joke, and to also get my windows cleaned.  "Shush woman, hide in a bedroom, the window cleaner only agreed to clean our windows when I told him you'd died of cancer.  Now be quiet and hide!"

I reckon he's pulling a fast one.
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Post by: richardlingard on March 22, 2012, 06:20:25 pm
i hope you told him yall dance on her grave
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Post by: AuRavelling79 on March 22, 2012, 08:48:39 pm
It gets worse ... I was just starting to agree to do the windows after all when he said "Why can't you use a ladder like you used to?" So I replied "because this does a better job and gets your frames cleaned too."

"No it doesn't!" He says.

So I said "Look I didn't do your windows before because of your attitude and I don't want to do them now; I'm sorry for your loss but I'm still not cleaning your windows!"

And this is it; get this - this is where I really got "owned" - this little old guy looks at me through his thick glasses and in his thick eastern european accent which he hasn't lost in 60 years and says "bit touchy aren't you?"

"Well I'm still not doing your windows" is my lame reply.  :-[ :-[
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Post by: CLEANCARE WC on March 22, 2012, 08:53:47 pm
It gets worse ... I was just starting to agree to do the windows after all when he said "Why can't you use a ladder like you used to?" So I replied "because this does a better job and gets your frames cleaned too."

"No it doesn't!" He says.

So I said "Look I didn't do your windows before because of your attitude and I don't want to do them now; I'm sorry for your loss but I'm still not cleaning your windows!"

And this is it; get this - this is where I really got "owned" - this little old guy looks at me through his thick glasses and in his thick eastern european accent which he hasn't lost in 60 years and says "bit touchy aren't you?"

"Well I'm still not doing your windows" is my lame reply.  :-[ :-[

nah you didnt get "owned" im sure your parting shot would of been alot better had you not found out that the ogre had popped her cloggs. still a victory for the zero tolerence of messers!...alive or dead!
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Post by: AuRavelling79 on March 22, 2012, 09:00:47 pm
Thanks Graham - I don't mind admitting when I overreact or react too quickly - it's a lesson learned and one I am already seeing the funny side of.

And no I wouldn't want him as a custy again - I just wish I had shown a bit more tolerance and kindness with it.

 ;D
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Post by: EandM on March 22, 2012, 10:58:59 pm
I think you acquitted yourself very well - it sounds like it was just going to be one of those days
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Post by: David Lingard on March 23, 2012, 03:23:31 pm
good that you stood by your guns though...sounds like you would be forever cleaning his windows for free when he complains every single time there -

possibly dodged a bullet?

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Post by: Paul Coleman on March 23, 2012, 05:16:10 pm
Thanks Graham - I don't mind admitting when I overreact or react too quickly - it's a lesson learned and one I am already seeing the funny side of.

And no I wouldn't want him as a custy again - I just wish I had shown a bit more tolerance and kindness with it.

 ;D

Somehow I don't think that was a good moment to start on a resurrection spiel.
Sorry Malc.  Couldn't resist.  Killing myself laughing here.  Not at you but at some of my own bloopers down the years.
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Post by: CLEANCARE WC on March 23, 2012, 05:27:23 pm
Thanks Graham - I don't mind admitting when I overreact or react too quickly - it's a lesson learned and one I am already seeing the funny side of.

And no I wouldn't want him as a custy again - I just wish I had shown a bit more tolerance and kindness with it.

 ;D

Somehow I don't think that was a good moment to start on a resurrection spiel.
Sorry Malc.  Couldn't resist.  Killing myself laughing here.  Not at you but at some of my own bloopers down the years.

For some strange reason the hope of a ressurrection was furthest from his mind  ;D
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Post by: AuRavelling79 on March 24, 2012, 02:13:09 pm
Paul, with your inside knowledge you know what buttons to press for sure!  ;D