Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mark311069 on November 26, 2008, 06:46:14 pm
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on the 9th of november my dear sweet mum had a stroke and after a couple of days in hospital she passed away. at the funeral last week i met and got talking to the vicar who asked me what i did for a living. when i told him about the gutter cleaning he asked me to come and see him when i got back to work. so this morning of i went and the upshot is he wants me to clean five churches for him.
i was just wondering if anybody had ever picked up work when they least expect to.
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sorry to hear of your mum.
if your asking me to trade my mum for a couple of jobs then as much as i am tempted i have to say no.
not trying to make a mockery of the situation just see a brighter side...like you did.
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Is he going to pay you with loose change ? ;
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it just seemed funny to me and i know it would have made my mum smile.
sorry all maybe this is not a great topic can someone please delete this thread
thank you
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Its not a bad topic mate.
I hope your doing as best as you can & the gutter jobs has brought a smile to my face & yours when he asked you.
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sorry to hear of your mum.
if your asking me to trade my mum for a couple of jobs then as much as i am tempted i have to say no.
not trying to make a mockery of the situation just see a brighter side...like you did.
i dont think he was enjoying a bit of good from a terrible thing, .....mark was just showing how jobs come in strange ways.....loosing a mum is an awfull experience, and the worst thing is it comes to us all >:(
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sorry to hear of your mum.
if your asking me to trade my mum for a couple of jobs then as much as i am tempted i have to say no.
not trying to make a mockery of the situation just see a brighter side...like you did.
i dont think he was enjoying a bit of good from a terrible thing, .....mark was just showing how jobs come in strange ways.....loosing a mum is an awfull experience, and the worst thing is it comes to us all >:(
I think you must have missread my post, i wasnt implying that he was hence me saying i was trying to see the brighter side of things which was what Mark has done. And hey, fair play to the guy, im glad that it hasnt affected him in ways which it affects many and that is a good thing.
More importantly if Mark says that it would have made his mum smile then...fantastic, best way to look at a situation like this. Im sure she was a lovely lady and missed my many. All the best Mark.
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id trad in mom inlor for a bonceing check
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Sorry to hear of your Mum Mark.
Heres a strange story regarding customers and death etc.
As some of you know my Mum died earlier this year. I was talking to one of my custys about it a short while after and he told me that his wife was dying of cancer (which is what my Mum died from).
Anyway, time passed by and eventually this custys wife died. The next visit I went round to do the windows things had obviously changed around the house etc and so I asked him how things were and he confirmed she had died. He was talking in detail about his life with her how they had coped with the years of her illness and how things had been since she died.
It seems the two of them travelled a lot together in their earlier years, apparently round the globe on more than one occassion, mostly in a Volvo car of one description or another; he reckoned theyd clocked up close on a million miles together in Volvos.
Anyway as this had been their mode of transport after she died he phoned the undertakers and asked them if it would be okay and legal to take his wife to the crematorium in her coffin in the back of his Volvo ;D
They duly confirmed it would be okay and that is how she went to her cremation.
The palbearers in a hearse all to themselves ;D
Fabulous, just fabulous. Even in death it helps so much to be able to see the funny side of things, thats why we had Morecambe and Wise played at my Mums cremation in March. She loved those two on a Saturday night in the 70s on the BBC.
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also on a lighter note, i hope you use holy water!
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Sorry to hear of your Mum Mark.
Heres a strange story regarding customers and death etc.
As some of you know my Mum died earlier this year. I was talking to one of my custys about it a short while after and he told me that his wife was dying of cancer (which is what my Mum died from).
Anyway, time passed by and eventually this custys wife died. The next visit I went round to do the windows things had obviously changed around the house etc and so I asked him how things were and he confirmed she had died. He was talking in detail about his life with her how they had coped with the years of her illness and how things had been since she died.
It seems the two of them travelled a lot together in their earlier years, apparently round the globe on more than one occassion, mostly in a Volvo car of one description or another; he reckoned theyd clocked up close on a million miles together in Volvos.
Anyway as this had been their mode of transport after she died he phoned the undertakers and asked them if it would be okay and legal to take his wife to the crematorium in her coffin in the back of his Volvo ;D
They duly confirmed it would be okay and that is how she went to her cremation.
The palbearers in a hearse all to themselves ;D
Fabulous, just fabulous. Even in death it helps so much to be able to see the funny side of things, thats why we had Morecambe and Wise played at my Mums cremation in March. She loved those two on a Saturday night in the 70s on the BBC.
;D
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id trad in mom inlor for a bonceing check
hehee. same here, its here on friday, god thats tommorow aaahhh, ive planned night out with lads tomorow night just to get away for a bit :)