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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Tim Rose on January 29, 2008, 05:06:03 pm

Title: Do you talk to yourself at work?
Post by: Tim Rose on January 29, 2008, 05:06:03 pm
If so, what sort of things do you discuss?
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Post by: NWH on January 29, 2008, 05:12:55 pm
Lol,i do sometimes aswell. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: tonylee on January 29, 2008, 05:14:30 pm
yes
only because no one els will, and when i do i'm as dull as hell!
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Post by: supernova77 on January 29, 2008, 05:16:43 pm
Yes I do... I regularly debate with myself whether "Rosy" really could be a boys name?  :D

Andy
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Post by: Tim Rose on January 29, 2008, 05:18:49 pm
Funny you say that, as I was going through ALL the names of the members on CIU, from A-z and imagined giving each one a £10 note...

... then I woke up when a jet of water hit me in the face, or was it a streak of pi55 from a goat in the field?  I dunno, even to this day.
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Post by: Blackbushe Windows on January 29, 2008, 05:34:45 pm
Time to get worried when that starts!

Hope you're worried Andy! ;D ;D ;D


Peter
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Post by: frames to panes on January 29, 2008, 05:57:49 pm
Only swear to myself never talk.
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Post by: Londoner on January 29, 2008, 06:04:23 pm
I talk to myself all the time, its the only way I can get a sensible answer.
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Post by: Village Gleam on January 29, 2008, 06:37:28 pm
Clint Eastwood as a lone gunman against many always needed an edge. He rode down the hill with the sun glinting at his back, his adversaries unable to make him out at first, then realising the danger too late shooting wildly. His gun began to blaze and they began to fall........
Afterwards the sun shimmered over the fallen like the steam coming off my hot system brush as I pull away from the last window.
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Post by: Wayne Thomas on January 29, 2008, 06:42:24 pm
I sing to myself, and sometimes the customers (if they are about, without me realising). The day passes really quickly when I'm happy. To passers by I must seem happy and mad. At least it's better than being quiet and bored stiff.
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Post by: Village Gleam on January 29, 2008, 06:43:41 pm
For some reason the 1980 olympic games eight and fifteen hundred meters. I'm usually Ovett, and I very often win at both distances.
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Post by: Ian W on January 29, 2008, 07:05:33 pm
Yes I do. Like Vince, it is the only sensible conversation I get.  ;D
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Post by: LWC on January 29, 2008, 07:09:23 pm
i talk to myself all the time, in my head im going

"weve done £110, £110, £110, so if we go and do mrs jones that will be £120. thats £120 right so we need to do £200 £200 £200, so a few more, we could go and see mr evans after and that'l be £150 £150 £150"

does my head in, im constantly going over figures in my head, i know exaclty what ive done each day in my head, i never calculate it because i go over it so much in my head i know what we've earned that day

am i the only one?
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Post by: windowwashers on January 29, 2008, 07:11:11 pm
i talk to myself all the time, in my head im going

"weve done £110, £110, £110, so if we go and do mrs jones that will be £120. thats £120 right so we need to do £200 £200 £200, so a few more, we could go and see mr evans after and that'l be £150 £150 £150"

does my head in, im constantly going over figures in my head, i know exaclty what ive done each day in my head, i never calculate it because i go over it so much in my head i know what we've earned that day

am i the only one?
you must have quite a few large house there m8
Title: Re: Do you talk to yourself at work?
Post by: LWC on January 29, 2008, 07:13:52 pm
as in total, "£150 today £150 £150, mrs jones is £10 £10 £10 so thatl be £160 £160 £160"

lol
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Post by: Tony Warren on January 29, 2008, 07:15:34 pm
I talk to anyone but myself at work cos when i get home to the missus and kids thats all i seem to do.
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Post by: Andy@w.c.s on January 29, 2008, 07:16:55 pm
 you need an ipod LWC
Ive been thinking of learning an other language !
the down time for my brain is just to much sometimes may as well put it to some good use  :)

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Post by: LWC on January 29, 2008, 07:18:50 pm
i got me radio on the phone, thats good seomtimes, when the dam plug doesnt keep popping out  >:(
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Post by: Londoner on January 29, 2008, 07:30:03 pm
Sometimes I daydream and forget which windows I've done. Its scary. Window cleaning is so repetative you sort of hypnotise yourself.

 The idea of learning another language appeals to me
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Post by: Dean Aspects on January 29, 2008, 07:50:22 pm
I've just booked a holiday to Italy so i am trying to learn some phrases got a cd in the van and i have to repeat everything then i go around the job repeating it then every so often i do an Italian gesture and go all pacino "you talkin' to me"

Dean
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Post by: Wayne Thomas on January 29, 2008, 08:14:46 pm
Sometimes I daydream and forget which windows I've done. Its scary. Window cleaning is so repetative you sort of hypnotise yourself.


When I'm going for it I have no problems as I'm always thinking of my next move but when I'm chatting to customers whilst working, I sometimes get engrossed in the conversation topic and forget if I cleaned a particular window. Then I have to walk back and inspect the window to double check to put my mind at ease.
If left alone for long periods of time with no distractions on large jobs, I also feel like I'm hypnotising myself because I'm so relaxed, calm and peaceful with my thoughts, daydreaming and singing in my head.
I can't think of many jobs that allow you the opportunity to drift off in your thoughts whilst earning a good wage at your own pace.
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Post by: Pj on January 29, 2008, 09:27:09 pm
Just yesterday I was thinking that the earth rotates around the sun every 365 days (we measure it approximately although it happens more accurately outside my head), and I started wondering how long a sun orbit is?  And what does it rotate around?  And if the sun is in orbit as it must be then the earth is in an even bigger orbit than just the one around the sun so do the stars orbit too?  Where do they go?

Then I finished and had to wind my hose up...........it is getting too heavy to lift into my wrecked old van!
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Post by: philboy on January 29, 2008, 09:53:40 pm
as in total, "£150 today £150 £150, mrs jones is £10 £10 £10 so thatl be £160 £160 £160"

lol

Is it a stutter, or a compulsive disorder that makes you say things three times, three times, three times??? ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: tacky on January 29, 2008, 10:36:51 pm
ladder on one shoulder . getto blaster on the other .n before the wise comments come in the wife carries the bucket