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and so for today's job
can you clean ze window frames....ooops sorry but shes a german..
I have done all the opening bits and the sills so its just around the edges...
well I pretty much do them every time but hey ho its spring cleaning time...
I will give you a bucket with plenty of fairy in it...
hmmm ta mrs german...
£10 I said seeing as....I would be up my ladder cleaning the windows anyway..
well how much would you charge to clean the gutters and facia...
well...I said...having a quick look to see them spotless and black gutters with not a vent to be seen....a pound a metre...
oh well how much to just do the tops at the back...
so I said...well the brackets are usually a metre apart so you can count them easy....
so how much to just do the tops at the back...yep....me got to do the counting...so there I am going 1,2 ,3, 4 for effect ...I would just have loved to do it in german..
er...and I am always generous...£!4 altogether then....and I could just see the huge calculations taking place in her finely tuned german mind as she glanced at the downstairs....stepladders...time taken....hmmmm hard thinking process but to be fair she is a larger lady and the thought of the step ladders creaking may have put this my way..
so how much for the downstairs..? oh for fecks sake I would have liked to have said ,..count the feckin brackets..but I refrain as you do.and so off I go...1,2,3,4
so I said for all the back £25......
oh....some thought later....so how much for the front ?
now it was getting boring as she waddled around to the front so I took a quick look and just said....£25 for all the front before she got chance to say for the tops....
oh some thought took place again....and,,,,how much for cleaning the windows...
now this was mentioned in a post a while back....next doors was a tenner...now worth £15 but still a tenner, but...you do get a nice ice cold can of coke...
and so I had been asked to pop a quote through years ago and had put a tenner...
years later she said I will leave the ten pounds under the wheelie bin and I thought great a cheapie special money left no one in..
now I didnt pounce on the money as you never know whos behind them thick net curtains.....and can you imagine my face when I lifted up the bin at the end to see no money....NOT even inside the bin...I mean how desperate was I to look inside a bin of rubbish ...
but after all...she was a german and they do have some funny ways...not pc enough..okay the brits have some funny ways too...all equal now..
anyway I didnt rush around to collect as I have stopped collecting and it was some time later when I knocked on the door...
oh...I am just calling for my money....vot did you not get it from under ze bin ? oh sorry typewriter error
no I said...so off she waddles to investigate....and after some time as she plainly didnt believe I would look proper, she concluded, it must have blown away..l will get another..
of course I took my tenner and felt guilty as hell and thought she thinks Im pulling a fast one..
a long while later the phone rings...I have found your money down the side of the shed she said....
anyway....last time I cleaned the windows she said its under the rear door mat.she doesnt trust the wheelie bin anymore...
er....mrs german....you can plainly see through that door mat but suppose it is around the back..
picks it up to find £15...well to be fair...its a big house and worth that ...and in my last post I did say....maybe its a tip....
and back to today....so how much for the windows?
well whats a windy to say.....£15 I said looking straight into her dark eyes....
and so if I ever get off this addictive site, that bloody gav I blame.....will I get my £50 plus £10 plus £15....or not...dont know how good her adding is...
she wanted it doing there and then on monday in the full sun ...but it being monday I was overly tired from all my exercise lifting the remote control and my beer...and to be fair I didnt want to dance around the four cars crammed on the drive as frank may come back...
and my little heart got all excited when I heard the words......I want to pay you before I go out...
so I will either be very happy or peed off tonight...have a good day folks and get some money in...
can you clean ze window frames....ooops sorry but shes a german..
I have done all the opening bits and the sills so its just around the edges...
well I pretty much do them every time but hey ho its spring cleaning time...
I will give you a bucket with plenty of fairy in it...
hmmm ta mrs german...
£10 I said seeing as....I would be up my ladder cleaning the windows anyway..
well how much would you charge to clean the gutters and facia...
well...I said...having a quick look to see them spotless and black gutters with not a vent to be seen....a pound a metre...
oh well how much to just do the tops at the back...
so I said...well the brackets are usually a metre apart so you can count them easy....
so how much to just do the tops at the back...yep....me got to do the counting...so there I am going 1,2 ,3, 4 for effect ...I would just have loved to do it in german..
er...and I am always generous...£!4 altogether then....and I could just see the huge calculations taking place in her finely tuned german mind as she glanced at the downstairs....stepladders...time taken....hmmmm hard thinking process but to be fair she is a larger lady and the thought of the step ladders creaking may have put this my way..
so how much for the downstairs..? oh for fecks sake I would have liked to have said ,..count the feckin brackets..but I refrain as you do.and so off I go...1,2,3,4
so I said for all the back £25......
oh....some thought later....so how much for the front ?
now it was getting boring as she waddled around to the front so I took a quick look and just said....£25 for all the front before she got chance to say for the tops....
oh some thought took place again....and,,,,how much for cleaning the windows...
now this was mentioned in a post a while back....next doors was a tenner...now worth £15 but still a tenner, but...you do get a nice ice cold can of coke...
and so I had been asked to pop a quote through years ago and had put a tenner...
years later she said I will leave the ten pounds under the wheelie bin and I thought great a cheapie special money left no one in..
now I didnt pounce on the money as you never know whos behind them thick net curtains.....and can you imagine my face when I lifted up the bin at the end to see no money....NOT even inside the bin...I mean how desperate was I to look inside a bin of rubbish ...
but after all...she was a german and they do have some funny ways...not pc enough..okay the brits have some funny ways too...all equal now..
anyway I didnt rush around to collect as I have stopped collecting and it was some time later when I knocked on the door...
oh...I am just calling for my money....vot did you not get it from under ze bin ? oh sorry typewriter error
no I said...so off she waddles to investigate....and after some time as she plainly didnt believe I would look proper, she concluded, it must have blown away..l will get another..
of course I took my tenner and felt guilty as hell and thought she thinks Im pulling a fast one..
a long while later the phone rings...I have found your money down the side of the shed she said....
anyway....last time I cleaned the windows she said its under the rear door mat.she doesnt trust the wheelie bin anymore...
er....mrs german....you can plainly see through that door mat but suppose it is around the back..
picks it up to find £15...well to be fair...its a big house and worth that ...and in my last post I did say....maybe its a tip....
and back to today....so how much for the windows?
well whats a windy to say.....£15 I said looking straight into her dark eyes....
and so if I ever get off this addictive site, that bloody gav I blame.....will I get my £50 plus £10 plus £15....or not...dont know how good her adding is...
she wanted it doing there and then on monday in the full sun ...but it being monday I was overly tired from all my exercise lifting the remote control and my beer...and to be fair I didnt want to dance around the four cars crammed on the drive as frank may come back...
and my little heart got all excited when I heard the words......I want to pay you before I go out...
so I will either be very happy or peed off tonight...have a good day folks and get some money in...