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robert mitchell

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Re: best or worse, funny or sad window cleaning tail
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2017, 01:43:40 pm »
Taken from my timeline on facebook a couple of years back.

Well that was embarrassing!

Went to do a window cleaning quote this morning just after ten, pressed the bell and waited for a bit but no answer .
I could hear what i thought was a dog yelping, so assuming they were not home i went round the side to look over the fence so i could text the quote to them .

As I'm walking back to the front the door opens and a young woman in her early 20s was there in just a towel ........... so i said " sorry , i could hear the dog yelping and you didn't answer so i assumed you were not in"

Her reply " We don't have a dog , that was me! "

Think i ruined there morning session , got a feeling i may not get that job!
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Smurf

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Re: best or worse, funny or sad window cleaning tail
« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2017, 02:46:17 pm »
From a previous post in 2013 ...

On Thursday I'm cleaning 5 out of a terrace of 7 1960's houses. Parking is across about 20 yards of grass with separate blocks of garages and so I park up then run hose to each house.

So I don't bother knocking and do all the top fronts and am working back along the bottoms. I notice a funeral cortege turn up and go over, move my cones and hose to let them pull up and carry on.

Five minutes later I'm cleaning the lounge window and in the reflection I see a top hatted, morning coated funeral director walk up to the front path.

Gold: "You coming here?"
TopHat: "Errr this is No 14 isn't it?"
Gold: "Yes but I don't know if anyones home ..."
TopHat (grinning but speaking quietly) "I hope so, can't keep the deceased waiting ..."
Gold: " I'll make myself scarce"
(Leg it and frantically start pulling 50 metres of microbore away from the front path and out of the way of the funeral cars as my custy and family walk towards the coffin)

What is it with me and the dearest departed? This is the same road as I had my infamous falling out with the Polish gent who told me his wife was dead when I got antsy about taking him back on as a customer!

 :-[ ;)


I've had similar  happen to me too more than one occasion  and the last one was only last week.
Was in the middle of a driveway clean and  cars kept turning up opposite with peeps wearing black.
Bloody cars were parked everywhere.

The creepiest one I  was sat in a chair and just as I had taken a mouthful  of tea when the  old lady pipes up "That was my husbands chair and he died in it last night."  Needless to say I sprayed tea everywhere in shock. lol



NWH

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Re: best or worse, funny or sad window cleaning tail
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2017, 05:14:04 pm »
One of my customers had fallen down the stairs and was screaming out for help. I went in and found her very distressed with her bone sticking out of her leg. Gave her first aid and phoned for an ambulance. Stayed with her until a medic arrived, later her son phoned me to thank me for looking after her so that was nice to be appreciated  :)
Was it your bone sticking out of her lol 😂

Smurf

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Re: best or worse, funny or sad window cleaning tail
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2017, 05:51:49 pm »
One of my customers had fallen down the stairs and was screaming out for help. I went in and found her very distressed with her bone sticking out of her leg. Gave her first aid and phoned for an ambulance. Stayed with her until a medic arrived, later her son phoned me to thank me for looking after her so that was nice to be appreciated  :)

Nice one...Fair play to you.

robbo333

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Re: best or worse, funny or sad window cleaning tail
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2017, 07:07:29 pm »
Saddest moments:
I've seen old people who have lost husbands or wives. Every 8 weeks I go back, I can see them just deteriorate, get thinner, more wasted, just seem to be giving up, their lives seem to disappear before my very eyes. They age and get worse, very quickly, from that point on. I genuinely feel really sad! A few seem to handle it well.
When a custy loses their spouse now, I just think, please handle it well.

Good moments:
Every £18 I stick in my pocket  ;D
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windowswashed

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Re: best or worse, funny or sad window cleaning tail
« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2017, 08:28:11 pm »
One of my customers had fallen down the stairs and was screaming out for help. I went in and found her very distressed with her bone sticking out of her leg. Gave her first aid and phoned for an ambulance. Stayed with her until a medic arrived, later her son phoned me to thank me for looking after her so that was nice to be appreciated  :)
Was it your bone sticking out of her lol 😂
Nigel.......have a heart  ;) Poor lady was frantic, blood squirting out of her leg really fast like a pump, with her bone smashed and both parts poking out so tried as best as possible to arrest bleeding and cover her leg with make shift bandages, (bedding sheets) without pushing her bones back and trying to calm her down otherwise she would have gone into shock, talking to a medic on the phone  and trying to keep her talking to me, multitasking, very stressful whilst trying to remain calm and composed haha. Saved a few lives doing this job over the years and also in the army saved a few, got a medal for the ones I saved in the army, didn't ask for it, just doing what anyone would do and hope someone would do it for me one day if I ever need it  :)

Tosh

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Re: best or worse, funny or sad window cleaning tail
« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2017, 08:32:44 pm »
Compound fractures can kill quite easily.
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nathankaye

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Re: best or worse, funny or sad window cleaning tail
« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2017, 09:37:38 pm »
My x mrs worked at a kids care home company at the time called sedgemore i think (its some yrs back now). They had a window cleaner at each of the 3 very large houses they had but wanted to deal with one cleaner to do all 3. I very kindly stepped forward and worked some years for them. Its very good money in their game of kids care homes but they started getting greedy the big bosses and started taking on more and more problematic kids. (25 -30k a month for some kids paid for by local gov) the company policy was to have a female member of staff and a male member to try and make it like a family experience (which was a crazy ideal if ask me) but these kids would proper kick off and did so a couple of times whikst i was there. So i asked when i cleaned main office whilst manager was there to put me on a course, i was willing to pay, in how to restrain teens etc. Because if i helped out naturally as you would but something went wrong you get put straight on young offenders list no question asked.
Sadly they didnt want to know and so i had no choice but not to help if things went south very quickly. I just made sure my equipment n vehicle was out the way of harm.
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