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  • Posts: 111
Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2010, 11:05:53 pm »
I had a customer the other day ask me "will you do a good job, yeh?" i felt like saying no just to see ther reaction ;D

Mark Slaney

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Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #21 on: January 29, 2010, 01:26:12 pm »


  "Wow the've come up great".  I have'nt cleaned them yet!

 

john rees

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Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #22 on: January 29, 2010, 04:20:42 pm »
The best one I've been asked was by an old lady that was passing the house I was running the pipes into from the truckmount. "how much do you charge for cavity wall insulation young man?"  ;D

                     John
john

michael wadsworth

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Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #23 on: January 29, 2010, 04:35:41 pm »
9 out of ten times we would be sitting down to toast egg and tea within 10 minutes, and that was typical of the people of Liverpool- very hospitable. Mike

Until you went outside and your porty was on bricks ;D ;D ;D
Colin you boys are spoiled, a good portie did not exist at that time, we were using rotary scrubbers where, subsequent to cleaning you had to get big arms using a special Servicemaster rake(Still got two) to get out the swirl marks, then came the revolutionary rotary absorbent pads (I'm filling up here lads) Mike
I take my hat off to you Mike!!! Are you still doing the job?
Yes Colin, I'm into my 39th year now and may I say I've never known such a slow January. Good day today, I cleaned a suite and a sunshine lounge for a pair of 85 year olds, just after I set up and was prepping the cushions, he shouted "Hey Mary come and look at this poufee, it's come up like new", I'd not even pre-spayed it, so I knew the universe was blue, then, come pay time she gave me a £22 dropsy(tip).  The wine will be truly fine tonight. Mike
All it takes for evil to flourish is that good men do nothing.

Colin Day

Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #24 on: January 29, 2010, 04:59:20 pm »
£22 tip? Spot on...... Don Perignon for you tonight!!! :D

peter maybury

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Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #25 on: January 29, 2010, 06:20:40 pm »
I once went to a cutomer who had moved their 3 piece suite down to the bottom of the garden for me to clean. They must have thought I was going to jet wash it!.

Peter
www,carpetcleanercardiff.com

clinton

Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #26 on: January 29, 2010, 07:17:40 pm »
Colin

Like your comments on martin lewis,s facebook ;D heard him also on radio 2  ;D

Colin Day

Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #27 on: January 29, 2010, 07:44:54 pm »
Colin

Like your comments on martin lewis,s facebook ;D heard him also on radio 2  ;D


He replied too...  :D I've been in a right argumentative mood today ;D ;D ;D

clinton

Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #28 on: January 29, 2010, 08:05:30 pm »
Colin i will check your facebook page out lol ;D

Dont upset him ;D

Simon@arenaclean

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Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #29 on: January 29, 2010, 08:29:18 pm »
I once went to a cutomer who had moved their 3 piece suite down to the bottom of the garden for me to clean. They must have thought I was going to jet wash it!.

Peter
www,carpetcleanercardiff.com

I had a stair carpet removed for me, it was on the drive ready  ;D They just could not work out how I was going to do it.

peter maybury

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Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #30 on: January 29, 2010, 09:03:42 pm »
another busy body once told me I should have warning signs out to warn blind people about the hoses.

Peter
www.truckmountcarpetcleaner.co.uk


jasonl

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Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #32 on: January 30, 2010, 03:35:46 pm »
Colin

Like your comments on martin lewis,s facebook ;D heard him also on radio 2  ;D


He replied too...  :D I've been in a right argumentative mood today ;D ;D ;D

I just added a piece  on there about carpet cleaning.
I clean carpets
I dry Buildings

Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)

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Re: Stupid Questions!!!!
« Reply #33 on: January 30, 2010, 03:42:04 pm »
Pete's reply reminds me of a light-hearted talk I went to many years ago given by the owner of a local radio station. it was most amusing.

The funniest story I think though was when he wished to convey that one had to be particularly carful that you didn't discriminate against anybody or anything. Thus....

on the Breakfast show on his station they used to run a competition where a daily national newspaper was chosen at random  and the first person who rang in to say what the headline was on ,say, page 6, would win a prize.

Some busybody rang in to complain that this was a discrimination against blind people as they could not enter into the competition.

Our hero's reply was a classic (and probably explained why he runs a local radio station and I am but a lowly carpet cleaner). He said,

"O no sir. We would never discriminate; especially against the blind. And I can prove it to you. Some of our listeners are deaf.....they don't even know there is a competition to enter.
 :o ;D :o ;D
Diplomacy: the art of letting other people have your way