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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: LWC on November 26, 2013, 09:37:14 pm

Title: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 26, 2013, 09:37:14 pm
One of my favs is when then run round closing all the windows...after youve cleaned them  ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do
Post by: A-W-C on November 26, 2013, 10:36:18 pm
Lol ye some of mine do that :)
Title: Re: Funny things customers do
Post by: dazmond on November 26, 2013, 10:42:16 pm
when they say "do you need any water?" ::)roll ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do
Post by: LWC on November 26, 2013, 10:43:57 pm
How about "shall i pay you now...or?"

Would be nice yes...lol
Title: Re: Funny things customers do
Post by: Clever Forum Name on November 26, 2013, 10:45:56 pm
Will these dry ok?

Yes madam they should do. I think its about urmm 1....2.......2 or 3....... ah yeah 4 years WFP on this house!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Funny things customers do
Post by: LWC on November 26, 2013, 10:54:25 pm
"so...is there some kind of detergent in the water?"

Clearly not happy with WFP lol
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: roundbuilder on November 26, 2013, 10:56:02 pm
Oh Is it that time again.  ::)roll
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: supernova77 on November 26, 2013, 11:01:44 pm
When they take ages finding their cheque book after you've cleaned. Then ask you what the date is? How much is it? Who do I make it payable to?

Even though they've been a customer for years!

 ;)
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 26, 2013, 11:05:13 pm
When they take ages finding their cheque book after you've cleaned. Then ask you what the date is? How much is it? Who do I make it payable to?

Even though they've been a customer for years!

 ;)

lol! yes!

Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: KS Cleaning on November 26, 2013, 11:27:34 pm
When they close the blinds upstairs when they see the brush hitting the window ::)roll
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: G Griffin on November 26, 2013, 11:52:50 pm
I'll have to do insides now (meaning-do a good job or I'll be able to tell even though I can't and I never do them anyway).
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: Clever Forum Name on November 26, 2013, 11:54:31 pm
When they close the blinds upstairs when they see the brush hitting the window ::)roll

Yeah this gets me. Have a
Customer who closes curtains? Why lol
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: Nick_Thompson on November 27, 2013, 12:15:02 am
I'll have to do insides now

And it doesn't matter how many times we hear it, we always respond as if it was the very first time anybody had ever mentioned it.
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: G Griffin on November 27, 2013, 12:42:07 am
I'll have to do insides now

And it doesn't matter how many times we hear it, we always respond as if it was the very first time anybody had ever mentioned it.

That's true  ;D.
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 27, 2013, 07:59:06 am
I'll have to do insides now

And it doesn't matter how many times we hear it, we always respond as if it was the very first time anybody had ever mentioned it.

 ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: C o z y on November 27, 2013, 08:15:31 am
Do you still come in winter?


No, I hibernate  ::)roll
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: DaveG on November 27, 2013, 08:26:06 am
I'll have to do insides now

And it doesn't matter how many times we hear it, we always respond as if it was the very first time anybody had ever mentioned it.

 ;D

Seeing you using wfp. "That's cheating"

"I can't find my chequebook, will cash do?"

Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: gary999 on November 27, 2013, 08:31:59 am
leave the room..when you start cleaning that particular window
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Post by: Pro-Smart on November 27, 2013, 08:45:04 am
Cor - I wouldn't want your job in this weather!
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Post by: Richard iSparkle on November 27, 2013, 09:34:22 am
could you give the car a wash while you;re at it.  never fails to make me laugh
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Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on November 27, 2013, 09:44:26 am
the customer that follows you room to room checking you have done each window  ???
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 27, 2013, 03:17:26 pm
Do you still come in winter?


No, I hibernate  ::)roll

 ::)roll need to reply with "no i dont, all my bills stop to"  :)
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: DaveG on November 27, 2013, 03:35:31 pm
Sh@t my husband s home
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: Mike55 on November 27, 2013, 03:45:01 pm
"My husband did window cleaning for a while.......while he was looking for a proper job"
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 27, 2013, 03:47:11 pm
New customer, "i only cleaned them few weeks ago" when clearly aint been done for years...
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 27, 2013, 04:13:01 pm
"My husband did window cleaning for a while.......while he was looking for a proper job"

"Do you have a proper job or do you just do this?"
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: C o z y on November 27, 2013, 04:14:20 pm
"My husband did window cleaning for a while.......while he was looking for a proper job"

"Do you have a proper job or do you just do this?"

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: davids3511 on November 27, 2013, 04:45:15 pm
Background -
1. I'm overweight
2. My 11yr old goes Thai Boxing

Custy - 'Is that your son sparring with mine?' She's picked the fattest kid in the place
Me - 'no, mine's the tall skinny one in the ring.'

Kinda annoyed me that she would assume my kids would be fatties just because I am.
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: dazmond on November 27, 2013, 06:26:41 pm
what do you do in the winter?sign on?(no joke!)the posh customer who said this has been on the books for 4 years ALL year round! ::)roll ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: TomCrowther on November 27, 2013, 06:53:09 pm
Some customers are great, and some are like goldfish. It's like every time they see you, it's the first time? I have a few like this, and no joke, every time they ask if I need any water and should they move the car so I can put the ladders up?
After years of telling them no and no, I'm wfp I am tempted to say yes and get the ladders out for my sanity.
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: Johnny B on November 27, 2013, 07:09:57 pm
It always amuses me when new customers say that it is commendable that I do window cleaning 'for a bit of extra money'!

John
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: South Window Cleaning Ltd on November 27, 2013, 07:13:46 pm
new customer: do you use that pole thing ?
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: chanster00 on November 27, 2013, 07:22:01 pm
Do you still come in winter?


No, I hibernate  ::)roll
Laughed my tits off at this
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: Cliff perkins on November 27, 2013, 07:38:21 pm
It always amuses me when new customers say that it is commendable that I do window cleaning 'for a bit of extra money'!

John
let them think we don't earn enough jonny,I'm ok with that  ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: windowswashed on November 27, 2013, 10:26:59 pm
 (High level WFP use) Are you going to blade the windows dry after you finish using that pole/stick ? Big fat No is my reply as the air dries them naturally! ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: PoleKing on November 27, 2013, 10:36:01 pm
(High level WFP use) Are you going to blade the windows dry after you finish using that pole/stick ? Big fat No is my reply as the air dries them naturally! ;D

Highest job I ever did:
Passerby: 'bet you get a good picture with that'

Never had it before or since.
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 28, 2013, 07:48:18 am
I had one once quite irate asking where i got my water from, he thought i had hooked up to his outside tap lol  ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: dazmond on November 28, 2013, 08:51:08 am
YOU VE MISSED A BIT!!this must be the biggest cliche followed by "I BET YOU VE SEEN SOME SIGHTS!! ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC Ltd on November 28, 2013, 03:05:45 pm
I do a shop every week traditional. Went yesterday and he said 'Don't bother doing them today its too cold' I looked at him thinking he was joking - 'I can handle it I said'
'No I mean its too cold with the door open' ?????????????

I never even bothered explaining that I can clean the door while its shut just the same - as I do anyway usually.
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 28, 2013, 03:43:34 pm
the customer that follows you room to room checking you have done each window  ???

I have one of these really bad and shes not that subtle about it, lol...then she says about one window by the door, says it every time even after i know she watched me doing it ... "have you done this one?"
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: Llaaww on November 28, 2013, 04:49:13 pm
" I don't need it, all these (totally filthy) windows are self cleaning.

"can you just do xyz while you're at it"

"I haven't got any money"

"Where can I get one of those pole things"
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: Carl2009 on November 28, 2013, 05:02:28 pm
Off-thread but things I hate are:

1. They go out whilst you are cleaning and don't pay you.
2. They won't answer the door when you finished and you ring / knock.
3. "Not today" or "Can you leave it till _________". See my previous posts on the subject
4. They expect a 10 minute chat after every clean.
5. "I'll BACS payment across now" and 3 weeks later you are still waiting.
6. People with whom you agree monthly terms and 3 months in they change frequency or cancel.
7. The people who owe me £46 for 2 cleans and told me yesterday that they've gone bankrupt when they could have told me a month ago, before the second clean.
8. People who thinks prices should be from 1913  not 2013.
9."You've been on holiday? I must be paying you too much". Oh yes? Just why is that then?!!
10. Couple in their 80s bless 'em, "Here, have a Christmas drink on us" handing me a single can of Fosters. Gift wrapped! Lol.

Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: EandM on November 28, 2013, 05:39:32 pm
the customer that follows you room to room checking you have done each window  ???

I have one of these really bad and shes not that subtle about it, lol...then she says about one window by the door, says it every time even after i know she watched me doing it ... "have you done this one?"


The answer to her, politely and with a smile, ' Well, what do you think.... ? '
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 28, 2013, 05:52:40 pm

9."You've been on holiday? I must be paying you too much". Oh yes? Just why is that then?!!



Worked really hard for our holiday this year in Florida...should see their faces if they ask if ive been on holiday lol
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: tlwcs on November 28, 2013, 06:47:07 pm
It's not so much what say rather than that look
They all ask if your going away this year and if you yes abroad, you get that look as if you've just shat on the lawn
Tony
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: dazmond on November 28, 2013, 06:58:58 pm
yes the "we must be paying you too much" has been said to me many times only by customers that are low priced though!(eg £7!). ::)roll

as if we re not entitled to take a holiday once or twice or 3 times a year!! ;D ;D ;D

just cos we ve got the drive and nous to build a little profitable business for ourselves rather than making another persons already oversized wallet even fatter they take the hump!!

there are a lot of jealous people out there and some people  find they are just about scraping a living together working for other people.

oh and i made the decision not to have kids!! :D :D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: Martin-Swinscoe on November 28, 2013, 08:10:37 pm
" I'll call you when i need them doing again"

Yeh Right o
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 28, 2013, 08:53:14 pm
" I'll call you when i need them doing again"

Yeh Right o

Rageeeeeeeeeee  ;D

"do you have a card so i can call you"
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 28, 2013, 08:55:33 pm
We should write a book guys. This is gold lol
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: AuRavelling79 on November 28, 2013, 09:28:14 pm
Off-thread but things I hate are:


...

10. Couple in their 80s bless 'em, "Here, have a Christmas drink on us" handing me a single can of Fosters. Gift wrapped! Lol.

...


We have a winner!  ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: tonycarr on November 28, 2013, 09:46:44 pm
While out collecting.......Have you cleaned the windows then? ......Der Yeh that's why I'm collecting.


And the husband who won't never pay because its the wife who wants the windows cleaned.

And the lady who only has money  on a Friday?.........It is Friday I say......oh Yeh, hang on I'll go and get it.
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: PoleKing on November 28, 2013, 09:52:02 pm

9."You've been on holiday? I must be paying you too much". Oh yes? Just why is that then?!!



Worked really hard for our holiday this year in Florida...should see their faces if they ask if ive been on holiday lol

Yup, your £10 PCM barely buys a round down the pub but it has managed to get me, the wife and 2 kids to Italy for 2 weeks.
Thank you very much for making sure that my family life is complete.
I really don't know what I would do with the whole 1,000p that you pay me each month.
We'd be destitute.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, <doth cap>, thank you <bow> thank you, <walk away with out turning your back on them, whilst doing a curtesy>
As you drive away, don't forget to toot the horn and give him a cheeky wink and 'the gun'

Love these customers.
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 28, 2013, 10:16:51 pm

"can you just do xyz while you're at it"


And not expect to pay any extra for extra work done! grrrrrrrr
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: C o z y on November 29, 2013, 08:13:55 am

9."You've been on holiday? I must be paying you too much". Oh yes? Just why is that then?!!



Worked really hard for our holiday this year in Florida...should see their faces if they ask if ive been on holiday lol

Yup, your £10 PCM barely buys a round down the pub but it has managed to get me, the wife and 2 kids to Italy for 2 weeks.
Thank you very much for making sure that my family life is complete.
I really don't know what I would do with the whole 1,000p that you pay me each month.
We'd be destitute.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, <doth cap>, thank you <bow> thank you, <walk away with out turning your back on them, whilst doing a curtesy>
As you drive away, don't forget to toot the horn and give him a cheeky wink and 'the gun'

Love these customers.

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: skillwizz on November 29, 2013, 12:27:21 pm
....Woman dragging her child up the road, obviously late for school....

 " See !  If you don't go to school you'll end up like him (me)  cleaning windows for a living"

.....Gob-smacked  !!.....
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: LWC on November 29, 2013, 01:05:52 pm
....Woman dragging her child up the road, obviously late for school....

 " See !  If you don't go to school you'll end up like him (me)  cleaning windows for a living"

.....Gob-smacked  !!.....


Yeh whod wanna end up doing this!
Title: Re: Funny things customers do or say
Post by: Dominic Carnell on November 29, 2013, 01:25:38 pm
Quote
10. Couple in their 80s bless 'em, "Here, have a Christmas drink on us" handing me a single can of Fosters. Gift wrapped! Lol.

Haha don't drink it all at once :)