Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AuRavelling79 on October 25, 2006, 08:18:21 pm
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OK let's have a bit of fun instead of slagging each other off!
What have you left behind at your customers and how far did you have to drive to retrieve it?
I'll give you two.
1. Last month where I left my bucket somewhere, couldn't remember where and bought a new one. Found the old one a month later still sat on this commercial customers outside air-conditioner, part filled with filthy soapy water.
2. Today - (I used my short cut down ladder for the first time in five months) I left it at the back of a school I was working on and realised as I was about to park on my drive. Round trip of 24 miles to retrieve it!
Numpty me. (I occasionally leave my pole at a customers too.) ;D
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Left my bucket in a village called Chelmorton, next day working in Wirksworth
Round trip of 43.5 miles.
I was doing the work in Wirksworth as a favour!!
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only the other day i left my back pack on the high st where i was cleaning a shop put the pole on the roof but forgot to put the pack in the boot drove 10 min up the rd and my water container fell over in the boot went to lift it up and relised ide lost my back pack must of drove about 80 miles an hour back there swetting thinking it mite have gone but it was still sat there thank god
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Left my 6ft pointer at a job, about 6miles but traffic was a nightmare nealrey two hours untill it was safley back in my hands, £120's of ladder isnt goin to be forgotton about ;)
Found one of my squeegee's at a job 6 weeks later!!!
I have also lost about 3 trip hazzard signs in the last month and before that I hadnt lost any, luckily I still have 8 left.
ProPole
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Left my Vikan hand brush and bucket at a customers house, called them and told them, he says..."Yeah I have it here...I sell them"....at least I now have a decent contact for brushes here in Holland...result!! ;D
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A couple of weeks ago,
I was offered a cup of tea from a customer and we sat in the back yard drinking it whilst we chatted. I took my belt off and hung it on her decking post. I forgot all about it 2 or 3 miles away to the next clean. We had to drive all the back to get it. Such a Nuisance!!
And,
I can't forget the ammount of times i've hung some scrims on the customers line to dry and left them behind.
Propole: is this a long enough post for ya HA HA!! ;D ;D
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A slight reverse on the thread because I tend not to leave stuff at customers but seem to aquire there cups, I tend to do my paperwork in the van while drinking the many cups of tea I get offered on jobs and always forget to pick up the cup when going to get the customer to sign for the work done......shocking of me i know, but not intensional.
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Left bucket behind a couple of times, once it had gone and the guy where I left it said no I have not seen it (thieving sh*t) and the other time it was where I left it but that was about a 30 mile round trip.
Forgotten my coat loads of times, normally just pick it up when passing not really worth driving back for.
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I hate driving to work then realising I've left scrims or micros at home.
Usually after I've squeegeed the first window.>:(
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I would just reach for a pole in a situation like that, today I was doing a bungalow it started to rain I thought "bloody hell shall I get my pole out" I didnt, but certainly should have!!!!
How do you feel about that Sqaueky
Pro
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yesterday left my pole in the pub garden
my biggest "leave behind'er" was when i was a carpenter, we had a contract to fit High security locks on ALL council properties in the s wales area
in the worse estate in penarth (a block of flats) i left a 450 quid cordless drill behind
we went to have breakie and i realised, of course i finished my breakie and went to have a look, it had gone
i walked to the van in a foul mood only for 1 of the "lads" (today we would call him a chav) to come up and ask "have you lost anything" i say "yes" he hands it over and says "there you go"
i was gobsmacked to be honest
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left my warning sign outside a city centre shop last week. Came back later to find that the staff had taken in and put it against the wall...
... as it was causing a trip hazard! ;D ;D ;D
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after a days work went to get some petrol and couldn't find my wallet. looked everywhere but had to ring the bank to cancel all my cards. 5 weeks later doing a house i noticed a wallet on the roof. couldnt believe it, it was mine and still had my £20 note in it. wallet was ruined due to weather but o well still got my twenty quid.
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This Monday morning I was distracted while sorting my car out and never secured my ladders to my car.
I found this out when I 'left' my A Frames on the round-about near where I live, after they slid off my roof rack while going about 20 MPH.
The van behind me swerved, came to a stop and the driver yelled, 'I've done that too!'
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Not Quite the same,but here goes.....
A number of years back whilst working at a local Working Mens Club,a kiddie I know(Hes 65ish now)was helping redecorate,hes had a full driving liscence since he was 20 but no car,was asked to go into town to the Dulux Centre and pick up 3 sets of paint,5ltrs of each,white,beige and a cream,they gave him the money for it and the Steward of the club lent him his car,nearly 3 hours later he returned with the paint and we started painting,a couple of hours later the stewards doing his nut because he cant find his car in the carpark,he asked ....where did you park my car when you came back from the paint shop?..................... ???
.......................dead silence.............................................
........................B*ll*x I strugled with them tins back on the bus for nothing....... ;D ;D
His excuse for leaving the car and catching a bus back was that I dont normally drive I allways catch a bus.........
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always leave my little wooden ladder choc... :D
now and then i leave my bucket.
then when i have driven away, i think .... did i drop a slip saying their windows have been cleaned? so i go back.!
yesterday i forgot to secure my ladders , but luckily i hit a hole in the road shortly after setting off, so heard all the damn thing rattle....
hey its good fun....
imagine dealing in finance, and asking today what we left behind?.... oh i left a million quid on the counter today at harrods !
arnt we a happy fortunate bunch :D
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I've left a ladder mat on a job, twice left my clipboard on the car roof and driven home, same with a pair of steps lost them on the first corner, I've also left my wallet on the roof and got home with it still there. lost about 3 scrims 2 microfibre cloths and 1 squeegie, Ive also gone to work without an applicater and forgoten my backpack battery.
thats all in a year, begining to think I should give up :-\
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I have left buckets, applicators, squeegies and scrim behind at jobs before.
My son is terrible for this.
Last month clean a row of houses and finished them drove a couple of miles to another row of houses opened back up where's my powerpole.
My lad left it at the last job.
The woman went out and locked the gate so my lad got our 8ft pointer off and hopped over the gate.
Passed the powerpole over put in the van.
He came back over and drove back a couple of miles to the houses we were going to clean.
Got there i started cleaning and guess what my lad said were's the small ladder.
He only forgot to put it back on the van when we went back to get the powerpole.
So back we go, Don't know what the neighbours must have thought visiting one house 3 times in one day.
And last week we were working away and about 3pm my lad goes were's the small ladder.
I thought someone must have knicked it.
Then i thought back to the jobs we had done that day and it was the very 1st job we needed it on.
We had done 20 houses since then and thought i bet its not there.
So drove a mile back to job and luckily still there resting against her porch
I dropped my phone in someones garden once and they rang my home number to let me know.
I told them i would pop straight back for it.
Went back now answer.
It took me 3 days before i could get an answer and my phone back and she said your phone keeps ringing and its driving me mad.
I said i did call back like i said and she said yes but it was getting dark so don't answer the door in the dark.
Paul
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Fortunately, never left anything that really mattered behind.
However, before I was full time on the windows I did some temp HGV 1 Driving for a local company based in Andover, Hants. I was told to get in my vehicle and return some empty cages to the depot in Birmingham (120 miles each way), so, got in my cab, drove to Birmingham, opened the back and realised I had forgotten to load the cages!! Boss was not too pleased with me >:(
Thank goodness for window cleaning ;)
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A while ago I left my new glass fibre 30' pole fully extended leaning against a wall in a rough area! Went back next day, there it was where I left it :o :o :oI could't believe it!
I often leave wee wee! :-[
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left my dad behind a couple of times ;D
To be honest i leave him behind on purpose because he really $%*&" me of sometimes
i've left behind the usual stuff poles, ladders, bukets and always get it all back eventually.
Stuart
SAJ Window Cleaners Ltd
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:oLeft my business partner at one job but that was on purpose! went back and got him later though, sometimes wish i hadnt HEE HEE!
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i have turned up at a job before, got out of my car(before i had my van), just about to get my ladders off and .......NO ladders there!! :o
Then i remembered they were safely in my garage at home!!! >:( ;D
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i dropped a scrim once on green whilst doing some flats, 5 weeks later it was still there ;D
also left applicator on a job 15 miles away, i used my spare one and picked it up next time on the job 1 month later
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Have left all the usual stuff. Got home once and found I still had the customers front door keys where she'd gone out and asked me to lock up and put them through the letter box and I automatically stuck them in my pocket.
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Two stupid things ive done:
1. Left my ladder racks in the back of the van one day after finishing at a house. Finished it, put the ladders on the roof, chatted to the customer for a minute then got in my van and drove off. oops!!!! Crash, bang wallop ladder carnage!!! Thank god I was only driving down a country lane and not down the A1 !! Muppet !!
2. Left my belt/ pouch whatever they're called ( the thing that holds your applicator and squeegee) at someones house then drove about 10 miles to another village to do 6 more houses..couldnt be bothered to go back and get it, thought it would be easy enough holding an applicator, squeegee, cloth and scrim whilst up a ladder..er...no way..what a nightmare. I wont make that mistake again!!
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Left a pole resting against the bedroom window sill of a house. When I got home the woman phoned me to say I'd left it behind and I arranged to pick it up the next day. Overnight the temperature dropped severely and when I went to collect it, I couldn't move it as it had frozen to the window sill. I had to get my ladder and pour hot water over the brush head to release it and left it on someones flat roof for half a day to thaw the water frozen in the hose running inside the pole.
Today someone left the keys to their house in their back door. I took the keys out of the door and put it in my pocket whilst I poled the door (to avoid any possible chance of snapping their key in the door) with the intention to put the key straight back. They made me a cuppa and before I knew it I was driving off down the road when I realised I still had their keys in my shirt pocket. One quick U-turn 5 minutes later to find them hunting around for their keys as I strolled in waiviing their keys in front of me with a cheeky smile on my face and having to appologise for the inconvenience I had caused them!
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left a trailer system (twice) and the van (once), don't ask me what I was doing or where I was going - I have no idea, the time with the van WE ended up ringing for a taxi before remembering that we had our own transport!! HAHAHA!! :D