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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: andrew hamshare on June 21, 2012, 10:38:53 pm
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Strangest thing you've come across on your round?
I ask because I'm am quoting on a care home which has a very overgrown garden next week. They have asked if I am okay with garden snakes!
I'm also quoting for the garden tidy up too. If I stop posting all of a sudden.....
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;D Best post of the day ;D
Adders will usually get out of your way just be careful if there's anything lying on the ground pipe like or galvanised roofing or anything else they can curl up or under.
Have you made a will?
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Strangest thing you've come across on your round?
I ask because I'm am quoting on a care home which has a very overgrown garden next week. They have asked if I am okay with garden snakes!
I'm also quoting for the garden tidy up too. If I stop posting all of a sudden.....
If you're trad, you could play snakes and ladders, while you're at it.
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Boom tish
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Does finding Bob Plumb on your patch count as finding something strange ? ;D
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This might not sound the strangest of things but a fox that sat on the back lawn of a house and calmly watched me clean the windows.
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Does finding Bob Plumb on your patch count as finding something strange ? ;D
i like it ;D ;D ;D
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I remember a few years ago posting leaflets in an area I work.
I walked down the driveway at the end of a cul-de-sac and came face to face with a peacock just strolling around bold as brass. ???
I never did find out who it belonged to?
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I was cleaning a new customers bungalow and im not usually one for looking in through the windows but on this one something inside caught my eye through the leaded window.
On the bed was a human arm! I nearly sh** myself. ???
When I knocked the door for payment the custies missus answered the door and sure enough.........she only had one arm.
The "arm" on the bed was a prosthetic one. :D
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I clean a hotel that has around a dozen peacocks - noisy bustards and they sh!t everywhere.
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Strangest thing you've come across on your round?
I ask because I'm am quoting on a care home which has a very overgrown garden next week. They have asked if I am okay with garden snakes!
I'm also quoting for the garden tidy up too. If I stop posting all of a sudden.....
If you're trad, you could play snakes and ladders, while you're at it.
Snakes and Ladders! Love it! lol
This is a cracking post
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"noisy numptys and they poop everywhere"
....thats not Peacocks, thats Kids!
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Does finding Bob Plumb on your patch count as finding something strange ? ;D
Steve C occassionally turns up on my doorstep. I thinking I might have to call Geenpeace next time, push him back in.
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One of my previous customer had a pig instead of a dog, funnily enough its name was pig
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Not sure how rare they are but back in February I saw a white squirrel in a garden.
And no, it wasnt covered in snow ;)
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White Sqirrel indeed !! U be telling us u seen a tradder doing a good job next !
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I've come across allsorts in peoples gardens, from peacocks to guinea fowl.
Last monday was a bit of an odd day? I was in the countryside & i could see something laying on the road up ahead, turns out to be a dead Roe Deer (buck) with quite a nice set of antlers on his head!
Later that day, a Cock Pheasant took the brute force of the underside of my transit..... and THEN on a road where i have never seen any artic lorry's, three of the buggers came hurtling down the road, of course, i had to move over, & found half of my van on the grass verge (it looked like a landrover - caked in mud)
but i've seen pretty much all there is too see in the country
rabbits, hare, deer (roe, red & fallow), fox, badger, squirrel (red & grey), stoat, mink, otter.... Cows & Sheep ;D
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White Sqirrel indeed !! U be telling us u seen a tradder doing a good job next !
No, just a white squirrel ;)
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A topless woman asleep on her back in the garden!
A care home for folk with alzheimers, was doing the inside of her room, and I tried to stop her eating what she thought was a Malteser & could'nt.
(didnt eat my sandwiches later on that day!)
A tortoise on a flat roof extension!! :o
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Other window cleaners. Very strange guys.
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Not sure how rare they are but back in February I saw a white squirrel in a garden.
And no, it wasnt covered in snow ;)
There are apparantly black squirrels in the woods to the back of Northwood Golf Course. One of my customers pointed one out to me which was interesting and then spent the next twenty minutes telling me about them. Which was not.
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A naturist stood in his back garden in nothing except a Panama Hat and Sandals pruning his Roses.
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My employee caught a bloke knocking one out in his bedroom... I had the task of collecting the money ::)
A cannabis plant growing nicely by the back door.
.... will think of some more in a bit ;D
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When I was on the ladder doing an upstairs bedroom window the nipper of the house appeared asking me if I wanted to see his mums toys :-\ :-\
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Had some nutter in a porsche 911 doing 140 down a country lane the other day! His passenger looked like he'd poo'ed his pants and was wearing what looked like a helmet.
Tic ;-)
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A customer giving birth..
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Giving birth or just constipated ;)
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Giving birth or just constipated ;)
Giving birth, you know baby coming from girls private bits
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There's a couple of ladies of ill repute that I have (come)across on my travels ;)
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Way back in my ' ladder days' an old lady sat on a potty by her bed, not nice. managed to get down before she saw me.
A nurse who was on nights having a daytime sleep in the nude on her bed, stayed up the ladder a bit longer!
Customer, female entertaining her boss in the bedroom at lunchtime, oops,
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one day i few years ago i could hear a squeaking sound(no it wasnt me rubbing the glass with a cloth!!)when on a job.i looked down and seen a cat with a mouse in its gob with its tiny back legs desperately trying to prise itself from the cats mouth!!poor bugger!! ;D ;D ;D
another time a young girl kept parading up and down in her underwear when i was cleaning and smiling her head off!i tried my best not to look and carried on cleaning although my hands were not as steady as usual and i was sweating like a pig even though i had a thick fleece on and combat pants!!! ;D ;D ;D
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one day i few years ago i could hear a squeaking sound(no it wasnt me rubbing the glass with a cloth!!)when on a job.i looked down and seen a cat with a mouse in its gob with its tiny back legs desperately trying to prise itself from the cats mouth!!poor bugger!! ;D ;D ;D
another time a young girl kept parading up and down in her underwear when i was cleaning and smiling her head off!i tried my best not to look and carried on cleaning although my hands were not as steady as usual and i was sweating like a pig even though i had a thick fleece on and combat pants!!! ;D ;D ;D
Hmmm I've locked people up for less lol,(I know its Innocent...... I hope lol)
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magic moments i mean she was 15-16 yrs old and very well developed!!lol!!jailbait!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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when I was trad, I went up to clean a window and saw this old lady totally starkers getting out of bed, I had never seen so many wrinkles on a body (oh good god it was not pretty, nearly fell off my ladder, she on the other hand just smiled :'( I am shuddering at the thought still after all these years, I'm scared for life
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Did one of my mates monthly cleans to help him catch up with his work..
Started cleaning this very nice detached house and happened to notice close to the bedroom window loads of wigs hanging up on the dresser, just thought it was the lady of the house that owned them but as I came to collect the money it was a tranny ;D
I nearly laughed..
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In the early days I was out window cleaning with a mate of mine and we came across a teenage criminal who had my pants down one night whilst policing, so I arrested him and my mate sat in the back of our rascal van with him whilst we escorted him to the police station.
His words were "I can't believe that the police have got an undercover window cleaning vam".
Its a true story is that,
Dean.
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I have a chinese customer whos windows i have been cleaning for three years now, he doesn't speak a wordof english, dont know why but when i have done the windows for some reason i always try to have a chat with him as he pays, we always end up just bowing at each other while he says hoi, hoi , hoi, i walk away and say see you in six weeks, hoi.
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Giving birth or just constipated ;)
Giving birth, you know baby coming from girls private bits
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Many years ago when I first started , was asked to quote for a house ,for front windows , by the lady of the house , any way got job and proceeded to clean.
Half way through a bloke came out And and asked for a price for the backs , turned out they were divorced, and had split house in 2 , she lived at the front of the house, he lived at the back. ???
Daz
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I had a house where a divorced couple lived. He lived upstairs and she lived downstairs. They moved last year to another house, still "togeather but apart". The neighbour next door described it as a very strange arrangement. Obviously worked for them
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i saw a guy once with a brush on the end of a stick attached to a hose in the van lol said he was a window cleaner.
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i saw a guy once with a brush on the end of a stick attached to a hose in the van lol said he was a window cleaner.
Let me guess ... you live North of Birmingham?
Possibly to the West of the Pennines?
;)
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There are apparantly black squirrels in the woods to the back of Northwood Golf Course. One of my customers pointed one out to me which was interesting and then spent the next twenty minutes telling me about them. Which was not.
;D ;D
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There are apparantly black squirrels in the woods to the back of Northwood Golf Course. One of my customers pointed one out to me which was interesting and then spent the next twenty minutes telling me about them. Which was not.
;D ;D
hope you charged him a waiting fee ;)
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A few years ago when I was a milkman, I saw a bloke in his garage, stood on a chair, with a rope around his neck attached to the rafters! He asked me to kick away the chair1 in a panick I said I couldn't dothat."Why not?" he says. It would be murder I says. I made a hasty retreat banged on next door who called the police. Not suprisingly he was sectioned.
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About a fortnight ago I'd called in at a shop that I do their windows to present an invoice (I clean them early in the morning before they open) and just passin the shop was a guy in shorts strolling up the High Street. Nothing unusual in that - but the man, obviously, had a catheter fitted and his bag was straped to his calf for all the world to see (half full). Now that put me off my tea. ::)
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I haven't got any really strange stories, but I know Steve C who comes on here once saw his reflection in the glass he was cleaning and he's never recovered.
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There are apparantly black squirrels in the woods to the back of Northwood Golf Course. One of my customers pointed one out to me which was interesting and then spent the next twenty minutes telling me about them. Which was not.
;D ;D
hope you charged him a waiting fee ;)
I'd lost the will to live by that stage. Just managing to get away seemed good enough
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I got a fone call to go and quote on a busy high st,a guy answered the door in a pair of baggy y fronts carried out the conversation at the door and he never batted an eyelid
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years ago when i first started i went to do a customers windows tradish and she had only gone and left her vibrator and durex lube on the window sill ive never looked at the women in the same way again ;)