[Cookie]

I smashed a garden gnome today (didn't even know it was behind me - must have crept up...) I think my pole hose was tangled around him & I just pulled him over.

I offered the customer a free clean but she wouldn't accept and paid me in full claiming the gnome was pretty worthless anyway....

[slap bash]

Seven-years bad luck.

[Smurf]

I think we have all done that one. I've broken gnomes, plant pots, water feature bird baths, solar garden lights just to name a few. I've also fallen down or tripped over garden steps, dwarf walls, slippery decking and even fell into a pond once too 

[paulben]

Oh the joys of being a window cleaner even stepped back into my bucket on a winters day

[robbo333]

The ones that are fishing...they're the f**kers 

[Phil J]

I always have a tube of superglue in the van. Great for lose lead and broken gnome's!

[richard groves]

The ones that are fishing...they're the f**kers 

No its the little blue ones with the white hats 

[rosskesava]

I decapitated a gnome once and didn't realise I'd done it till the next clean when the customer made out she was heartbroken. She was joking but for a few minutes I thought she was serious.

She's never let me forget it and calls me 'the gnome murderer'.

[Spruce]

I think we have all done that one. I've broken gnomes, plant pots, water feature bird baths, solar garden lights just to name a few. I've also fallen down or tripped over garden steps, dwarf walls, slippery decking and even fell into a pond once too 

That sounds like my wfp history. 

[nathankaye]

A yr bk, a chap asked me to do his upstairs windows. He already had a guy doing traditional, but apart from one window upstairs the other up windows were over roofs or the conny. Not getting into price arguements, i charged him 8quid for 3 windows (i clean neighbours n plenty of others on street) thought he wud laugh n say no, but he didnt. Any ways, 6 mnths later hes moaning to me how other shiner had broken a gnome in garden and not said anything, so hes got shot of him n asked if i could do all downstairs as well. Obviously i obliged at cost!  Now it could be an easy excuse to get rid of the other guy, but i thought it goes to show its better to nention these things than to ignore it n think we wont get blame.

Another tale tho, the worse i did was a classic Mr Bean moment! My customer left hose pipe out in garden, didnt pay too much attention as i stepped over it. Went n stood straight on trigger n shot cold water right up my inner leg to my cruch, on an already cold day! Looked like i had peed myself good n proper 

[duncan h]

I brake this womens night light every clean she puts it on a tall thin stand. Last time I tried moving stand and knocked light off with my pole lol

[sunshine windows]

Oops!

£2.5k garden table is the worst breakage for me. I now move nothing that's in my way to clean.

I've also pulled my hose reel over the bonnet of a brand new car. It whipped up as I pulled it round a corner and I didn't realise

[Smurf]

I think we have all done that one. I've broken gnomes, plant pots, water feature bird baths, solar garden lights just to name a few. I've also fallen down or tripped over garden steps, dwarf walls, slippery decking and even fell into a pond once too 

That sounds like my wfp history. 

I've also hit a few cars with me pole too and best one I broke a conservatory roof I was cleaning that ended up costing 3.5k to sort out. Now that was one of my better days 

[G Griffin]

I think we have all done that one. I've broken gnomes, plant pots, water feature bird baths, solar garden lights just to name a few. I've also fallen down or tripped over garden steps, dwarf walls, slippery decking and even fell into a pond once too 

That sounds like my wfp history. 

I've also hit a few cars with me pole too and best one I broke a conservatory roof I was cleaning that ended up costing 3.5k to sort out. Now that was one of my better days 

Blimey! Did you forget about that before?

[Smurf]

A yr bk, a chap asked me to do his upstairs windows. He already had a guy doing traditional, but apart from one window upstairs the other up windows were over roofs or the conny. Not getting into price arguements, i charged him 8quid for 3 windows (i clean neighbours n plenty of others on street) thought he wud laugh n say no, but he didnt. Any ways, 6 mnths later hes moaning to me how other shiner had broken a gnome in garden and not said anything, so hes got shot of him n asked if i could do all downstairs as well. Obviously i obliged at cost!  Now it could be an easy excuse to get rid of the other guy, but i thought it goes to show its better to nention these things than to ignore it n think we wont get blame.

Another tale tho, the worse i did was a classic Mr Bean moment! My customer left hose pipe out in garden, didnt pay too much attention as i stepped over it. Went n stood straight on trigger n shot cold water right up my inner leg to my cruch, on an already cold day! Looked like i had peed myself good n proper 

Now that''s funny but I can top that as I ineventadly sprayed water up a womans skirt.
The pole was on the ground at the time as she was walking past so I decided to pick it up out of the way when the water came on and went straight up her bum...Oops! sorry missus   

[Smurf]

I think we have all done that one. I've broken gnomes, plant pots, water feature bird baths, solar garden lights just to name a few. I've also fallen down or tripped over garden steps, dwarf walls, slippery decking and even fell into a pond once too 

That sounds like my wfp history. 

I've also hit a few cars with me pole too and best one I broke a conservatory roof I was cleaning that ended up costing 3.5k to sort out. Now that was one of my better days 

Blimey! Did you forget about that before?

I try to forget the conservatory cockup but Lance mention the table and it brought it all back. Lucky for me my insurance sorted it out.

[EandM]

At times like this I turn to Bowie;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htdvdm7cJnA

[Tosh]

Gardiners sell gnomes?