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norm

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placed a garden ornament on a seat and when i lifted the seat one of the robin red breasts didn't make :rolleyes: and sort off sepperated

quickly placed it together so you couldn't tell it was eh altered and finished up

Started feeling bad talking to custy so bit the bullet and mentioned what had happened

turned out it had broke months earlier :whew:

so does everyone own up or :lipssealed:

 
Probably 50 /50 mate. Depends if I view it as their fault or not. If they leave things in stupid places then they deserve to get broken.

 
that's why i ALWAYS carry super glue. for garden ornaments,gutter brackets etc,:whistle:
I always have super glue on me too. You never know when it'll come in handy. I keep a bag in my van with me that's full of bits and pieces that I might need such as mini first aid kit, duct tape, multi tool, knife etc.

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broke a solar light thing in a garden one of the ones in the grass on the pole

wel snapped it with hose i looked round seen no one were about and i shoved it up my jumper and tucked the jumper in carried on cleaning and packed up finished drove away then wipped it out wen i knew i were clear lol

 
I accidently squirted water through a bathroom window of a customer who stopped my services due to being 'skint' while I was working next door. Should I own up? Should I **** as like /emoticons/biggrin.png

 
Iv owned up to a few things , my dad's boss is a careless **** he broke a car mirror and tried to tape it up lol, done it not so long ago on 1 of them Fiat 500s and it was over 100 quid to fix, I was in that day working for him when he done it and he worked us like dogs to make up for it lol

 
I was cleaning a small bathroom window a few months back and it was slightly open. Without thinking I just pushed it closed. There was a massive ornament behind it and it just rocked back and forward for what felt like a minute. And then I heard the smash. She wasn't in so I could have upped sticks and left without her knowing I was there, but she's a nice lass so I text to own up. I was worried about the cost of the ornament, but more then that I wondered if it had broke the sink below it. Turned out to be pretty cheap so I threw in an inside clean on the next visit to make up for the mess she had to clean up.

 
Good thread norm. I knocked over an ornamental cat thingy a couple of months ago, smashed to bits. So I told the old girl. She was fine as she is a lovely person.

A couple of weeks later in walking past an ex customers house who elbowed me for a polish guy. Anyway low and behold he has a similar ornamental cat in his garden. Then a miracle happened, that cat appeared in the place of the broken one!

God works in mysterious ways:whistle:

 
Good thread norm. I knocked over an ornamental cat thingy a couple of months ago, smashed to bits. So I told the old girl. She was fine as she is a lovely person.A couple of weeks later in walking past an ex customers house who elbowed me for a polish guy. Anyway low and behold he has a similar ornamental cat in his garden. Then a miracle happened, that cat appeared in the place of the broken one!

God works in mysterious ways:whistle:
Nothing short of genius.

 
I was cleaning a house for the first time a couple of months back. I have to get the ladder off to get onto a flat roof for one bedroom window. As I got on the roof the bedroom window was wide open, I close it and the thud made some picture frames fall on the floor. I was wandering if she thought I'd climbed in and had a sniff of her drawers all day long :laugh:

 
Had a house aswell before had a collie dog that was an absolute nutcase , you couldn't even put the card through the letter box or it would take the fingers clean off you, literally had to poke it through with the squeegee, anyhow it used to just ram the door and then followed you into the living room, One day I took a bit longer on the window with birdshit and it pulled the blinds clean off the wall trying to get at me , the customer ended up cancelling me ffs lol

 
windy day ladders blew over and took of one of those extracter things off the wall i tried to push it back on but ended up throwing it into my van.

next clean a new one had appeared and when getting paid i was waiting for it to be mentioned but it wasn't

felt bad but was too embarressed to bring it up and time went by until a couple of months later one of my kids pulled it out of my van compartment and asked '' whats that ''?

straight into the bin it went

 
Broke a few of them crappy brown pottery plant pots last summer, never said nothing, just gotta check theres no sneaky CCTV cameras knocking about.

 
Another time I got the blame for breaking 2 outside lights on a house, the woman asked did I do it and I said no bla bla bla, the next time I went the 2nd light had broke and she accused me of laughing a out it to my brother when I mentioned , I then cracked up with her like and said for a start I take the ladder round 1 side of your house and leave and then walk round the other side as there is no tops , this houses back garden is the beach and sea so I had a look at the light and the glass had literally corroded out, still don't know if the birch believes me or not that I didn't break it

 
That reminds me, I have caught loads of sky dishes in my time. I wonder how many folk have had to call out the engineer to have it put right again./emoticons/unsure.png

 
Reminds me again lol ladder took the receiver clean off , I had a spare and just refitted it for custy

 
I always own up - only cause I don't think they'd be too impressed if they saw / neighbour saw what happened and I didn't say anything. Not worth probably losing the job.

Plus my conscience plays up, my head starts doing a number, gone to court and before you know it I'm locked up with a life sentence for breaking a gnome.......

 
I always own up - only cause I don't think they'd be too impressed if they saw / neighbour saw what happened and I didn't say anything. Not worth probably losing the job.
Plus my conscience plays up, my head starts doing a number, gone to court and before you know it I'm locked up with a life sentence for breaking a gnome.......
F'kin knomes, they'll get you one way or another.

 
That reminds me, I have caught loads of sky dishes in my time. I wonder how many folk have had to call out the engineer to have it put right again./emoticons/unsure.png
Me too. And I was told they cost £60 if Sky come out to tune them back in. I broke one of the centre things on a Sky dish which receives the signal. No one in so I didn't put a card thro. Lost me payment for that clean but cheaper than a new dish. She never said anything the following month

 
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