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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: AuRavelling79 on September 25, 2009, 08:42:35 pm

Title: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: AuRavelling79 on September 25, 2009, 08:42:35 pm: I am so far ahead on my round that I've nearly finished for the month - but today I went out for a couple of hours to get away with clearing up some two-monthlies at seven and a half weeks instead of eight or nine.

Anyhoo, luvly day and tootling along by the river about 11 am and the old lady next door to the house I'm working on is in the garden. "Oooh, young man? (must be blind ;D) can I ask you a huge favour? I don't like asking cuz my hubby does them but he's been ill ...could you get that lump of bird's muck off of my upstairs window?"

I vacillate (good word eh? I try to edjamacate my audience ;D) between thinking "cheeky mare" and "poor old bird" but against all that ~~Ewan~~ err.... I hold dear I did the whole upstairs window and the one below it for free. She insists on trying to give me a couple of quid and I settle for a cuppa and a chocolate roll.

I go round the back of my original custy and the hubby next door is in the back garden and he comes up to the fence and says "thanks ever so much for doing that my friend, much appreciated."

I start putting my stuff away and he follows me out to the van and long story short he is now a new regular customer.
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: Clive McDonald on September 25, 2009, 08:46:37 pm: whats the giste of the annotation, i can't look it up because i haven't got one.
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: AuRavelling79 on September 25, 2009, 08:49:19 pm: Quote from: slumpbuster on September 25, 2009, 08:46:37 pm
whats the giste of the annotation, i can't look it up because i haven't got one.

Huh? Sorry slumps - not with you mate. ???
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: Clive McDonald on September 25, 2009, 08:55:40 pm: Ecclesiastes 11 v 4

I was trying to be discreet and not use the word bible. Just wondered what it refered to.
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: EZclean on September 25, 2009, 09:00:50 pm: "he that is watching the wind, will not sow seed, he who looks at the clouds does not reap"
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: Paul_Rolfe on September 25, 2009, 09:20:51 pm: Far out, Man. ::)

I think maybe 'vacillate' got most people.

Looks italian to me.
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: leapstallbuildings on September 25, 2009, 09:29:27 pm: Quote from: slumpbuster on September 25, 2009, 08:55:40 pm
Ecclesiastes 11 v 4

I was trying to be discreet and not use the word bible. Just wondered what it refered to.

Aargh !!! You used the B word. Stone him. ;D
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: AuRavelling79 on September 25, 2009, 09:33:32 pm: Quote from: leapstallbuildings on September 25, 2009, 09:29:27 pm
Quote from: slumpbuster on September 25, 2009, 08:55:40 pm
Ecclesiastes 11 v 4

I was trying to be discreet and not use the word bible. Just wondered what it refered to.

Aargh !!! You used the B word. Stone him. ;D

This isn't "Life of Brian" leapstall! ;D

And yes EZclean; that's it. It originally applied to farmers (obviously) but quite apt for window cleaners too don't you think? ;)
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: ftp on September 25, 2009, 09:34:18 pm: vacillate? sounds like a cream you rub in. ???
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: Paul_Rolfe on September 25, 2009, 09:35:27 pm: Now you put it like that, I will have to buy some!
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: LWC on September 26, 2009, 07:49:39 am: If anyone says bible again

(http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/diu/lev24.jpg)

Are there any women here?
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: AuRavelling79 on September 26, 2009, 09:07:51 am: Quote from: Ewan on September 26, 2009, 06:24:40 am
Just sounds like you’re blowing your own trumpet Gold, or patting yourself on the back or just thinking to yourself that you’re so wonderful because you did something for free without any selfish intensions.

Even though you did initially think this old lady was a cheeky mare, your guilty conscience got the better of you (for a moment) when you realised she is probably a very lovely old lady. But still you just couldn’t help yourself and robbed this lovely old lady of her chocolate rolls & now go back regular to take money from her, shame on you Gold.

Very good, Ewan! ;D
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: R W C on September 26, 2009, 10:09:01 am: Quote from: Gold on September 26, 2009, 09:07:51 am
Quote from: Ewan on September 26, 2009, 06:24:40 am
Just sounds like you’re blowing your own trumpet Gold, or patting yourself on the back or just thinking to yourself that you’re so wonderful because you did something for free without any selfish intensions.

Even though you did initially think this old lady was a cheeky mare, your guilty conscience got the better of you (for a moment) when you realised she is probably a very lovely old lady. But still you just couldn’t help yourself and robbed this lovely old lady of her chocolate rolls & now go back regular to take money from her, shame on you Gold.

Very good, Ewan! ;D

I thought so too ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: matt on September 26, 2009, 10:59:05 am: karma ;)
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: TonyD on September 26, 2009, 01:56:03 pm: Yep, Karma, what goes around comes around.
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: s.hughes on September 26, 2009, 06:10:46 pm: Ok, so if you throw a stone at someone then it will come round and hit you in the head :)
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: john tomkins on September 26, 2009, 06:44:29 pm: Quote from: Steve H on September 26, 2009, 06:10:46 pm
Ok, so if you throw a stone at someone then it will come round and hit you in the head :)

Nah, you're thinking of a boomerang ;D
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: Niall McAllister on September 26, 2009, 07:20:55 pm: what do you call a boomerang that wont come back?

a stick ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Am I losing it? Getting soft in my old age but with a good result!
Post by: Niall McAllister on September 26, 2009, 07:21:53 pm: what's brown and sticky?

a stick ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D