Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AuRavelling79 on July 21, 2014, 05:30:13 pm
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So last week I get a call from "Jane" who lives in a tiny cottage in a group of about ten in two terraces in the middle of one of my villages on the edge of Bristol. They can't find a window cleaner and she and 4 neighbours want one. Trouble is to get to them parking is a nightmare but the end cottage has a drive I can park on and hopefully do them all by running a hose up the fronts and another up the backs.
I scout it out and say I can do it and say to her £10 each but if one of them pays all of them and collects the rest I'll do it for £42 the lot. (Tell her it's pole not ladders at this point.)
She emails me back to say "OK, yes please". I turn up today.
The guy in the cottage on the end with the drive has parked his car across his own gates. Fair enough, I ask him to move it which he does. I go to drive in and he says "you can't go on the drive I've only recently had it tarmac'd" (Now I know it's not been done in the last 10 days because I went there to price it up and it looked no different)
So I explain that my hoses won't reach the farther cottages if I can't park there.
Him: "Why can't you park in the road and run them in from there."
Me: (Manfully resisting the urge to ask him the purpose of a tarmac'd drive if not to park on it) "Because I paced out the distance and I'm on the limit if I park in your drive."
Him: "Just take your ladder off, they're only little houses."
Me: (Instantly deciding to drop the lot but to play a bit further) "What ladder is that sir?"
Dan: (Chiming in politely) "We don't use ladders any more sir."
Me: Reversing away (can you flounce in a van?) "Perhaps you'll explain to your neighbours that they will need to find another window cleaner."
And that - as usual - was that.
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Why didn't you flounce to the van? ::)roll No good without a flounce. >:(
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You should have got out of the van, flounced and got back in...
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Sir sir mmm last time I called someone sir was at school lol !!!!
I would of written out that he wouldn't let me park on his drive as he said its new Tarmac so therefore unable to clean and posted it to all the other customers !!!
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Sir sir mmm last time I called someone sir was at school lol !!!!
I would of written out that he wouldn't let me park on his drive as he said its new Tarmac so therefore unable to clean and posted it to all the other customers !!!
1. "Sir" can be said in a way that shows you are tolerating a muppet by being stiffly polite.
2. Email sent to "Jane" explaining muppetry of said householder as a reason why I won't be cleaning their windows.
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As Don has said, you could have got out of the van, and flounced, then got back in. Did you manage to flounce?
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Do they do an intensive course on flouncing .coz I think I need to go on it.
I'm not up to speed on that part of windowcleaning yet
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Sir sir mmm last time I called someone sir was when I was on my knees, dressed in a gimp mask that had a breathing tube attached to it.
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Do they do an intensive course on flouncing .coz I think I need to go on it.
I'm not up to speed on that part of windowcleaning yet
Mr Gold runs courses twice a year I believe. ;) There's a new one now, "Advanced Flouncing".
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Is that like mincing only not as gay?
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lmao ;D ;D ;D ;D nice one Gold
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I would have flounced my second reel out of the van and daisy chained them - but I suppose that there's not always room to carry one depending on van type.
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(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1406017346_b8586e2e92c9694fe0c9925.gif)
Goldilocks mincing is way back to the van.