Arriving and the police are there

[Duncs]

Anything above Birmingham is Scotland to me, dreary cold rainy weather
Only kidding, I bet it's a beautiful place to live, I'm in Essex, so a world away from the pleasant green lands of the North, although we do have very dry weather here which is a big plus!

you wont get rained off much

 

[fenderjaguar]

This reminds me of the time I was cleaning a bathroom window. Guy opens it and asks is there some police on the road. Sure enough, there were loads of police.

When I came back down the ladder, turns out the police were getting ready for a raid on the house I was cleaning. I think I kind of spoiled it for them....

 

[Smurf]

I once arrived at at house just as a hearse turned up and all the relative pilled out of the house into a limo. Talk about bad timing or what as the windows where a week overdue /emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[spruce]

I just realised I made it sound like I scarpered... I didn't, I got that over whelming feeling that if I left they'd think I had something to hide and come for me lol.
I went round the back in the hope that by the time I got back to the front they'd be gone. It kind of worked out, they were leaving when I got to the front. The home owner, who is lovely and usually likes a chat came and paid me and apologised for not staying to talk because he had some phone calls to make. I said I hoped he was ok and he said yes thanks and went back in.

I think its also about respecting your customer's privacy no matter what the police were there for.

You aren't scarpering (I love that word in its various forms - in South Africa is was a popular as awesome is in the States). You are leaving to return at a more opportune or appropriate time.

As far as the police are concerned, you have nothing to worry about, unless you have a dubious past.

I clean windows for 4 or 5 policemen including a member of the CID. They all know who I am around our area. Its their job to know. I'm a novelty as I am a South African with a different accent to the locals, so stand out anyway.

You are also a novelty as there aren't many lady window cleaners out there. They will know more about you than you realise.

 

[spruce]

I once arrived at at house just as a hearse turned up and all the relative pilled out of the house into a limo. Talk about bad timing or what as the windows where a week overdue /emoticons/biggrin.png

As you get older it seems that you get to experience more and more of life's twists and turns - it becomes part of the territory. I've rocked up to clean a customers house only to find him at home having just got back from his wife's funeral earlier that day. He was fixing his back gate to take his mind off his grief.

In this instance I was caught totally with my proverbial pants down. But I soon heard that the funeral caused a 'nuclear explosion' within the family so my arrival paled into insignificance.

We also clean windows for one of his sons. This son had booked an all inclusive holiday over in Mexico for his family months previously. His mother died the day before they were due to fly out. Father told them not to cancel their holiday but to go. They went after much soul searching. The other son said they should have cancelled their holiday out of respect for their mother. Now son No2 won't have anything to do with his brother. Very sad outcome and I hope they can settle this sooner rather than later.

Why was Dad at home alone so soon after the funeral? Why wasn't he being looked after by son no2's and his family? As the Yorkshire saying goes "there's nowt so queer as folk."

So my arrival was a blessing in disguise for him as we were able to chat about things as only us older ones can.

 

[Beccy]

beccy where are you based

Highlands of Scotland /emoticons/smile.png it's been snowing more than raining recently.

I definitely have nothing to hide, it's just that inbuilt fear. I first felt it when I was 2 and walking up a road on my own when I saw a police car. I knew straight away they'd come for me so I ran away. Funnily enough they had no trouble catching me back then /emoticons/wink.png

 

[Smurf]

When I was a lad if you got caught doing something silly you use to get a thick ear from the local bobby and taken back home . Then I would get another thick ear from my dad after the bobby had gone.. /emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[Jake]

you wont get rained off much

I live a few miles from the official driest part of the UK, it never rains, well hardly anyway.

Always find it strange driving back to my area from being anywhere else, the grass gets browner, the roads get dustier, the arid conditions start to make themselves known!

 

[spruce]

Highlands of Scotland /emoticons/smile.png it's been snowing more than raining recently.
I definitely have nothing to hide, it's just that inbuilt fear. I first felt it when I was 2 and walking up a road on my own when I saw a police car. I knew straight away they'd come for me so I ran away. Funnily enough they had no trouble catching me back then /emoticons/wink.png

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So many insecurities we have in later life are deeply rooted in misinterpreted experiences we had as children.

Sadly, as parents we have to take responsibility for a lot of them as our children see things totally differently to the way we see them.

My son is forty years old and we now get to discuss these things quite often. When he was a small boy we lived in Johannesburg and the highlight of his week was the weekly grocery shopping trip on a Saturday morning as it always ended up with boerewors rolls afterwards. (Boerewors rolls are similar to a sausage rolls and bought from a vendor cooking the boerewors on charcoal fired grills in corner of the supermarket carpark).

But he was too small to eat all of his so I would finish it off for him. I viewed this as a service to him, but he saw it as an injustice. He couldn't understand why it wasn't saved for later for him, although he never said anything. His whole desire would be to grow big enough so he could eat the whole roll all by himself. Apparently he even skipped breakfast to leave more room for his roll. When that time eventually came and he ate the whole roll, he said he got such an immense sense of achievement for doing that. That was pay back time as far as he was concerned.

Then a few years later he decided that the time had come to really drive the point home, so he ordered 2 boerewors rolls. /emoticons/smile.png

 

[SPCleaning]

As a window cleaner now, I would have left and returned later.

As a police officer, I would have been aware of the wc turning up and would have come out and politely explained that this was a bad time and maybe to return another day, if I was dealing with something serious. If it was only taking a witness statement or something I would have not cared that you were there and would have left it up to the home owner.

I once had this happen. The only difference was that I had a plain car. The window cleaner had no idea I was there as I was wearing a civvy jacket over my uniform. This was a delicate matter and the complainant did not want her neighbours knowing I was there.

The window cleaner was known to us (police) as a burglar and we had a warrant out for him. In truth we had not tried to catch him yet.

I made a radio message and arranged for a police van to join me. Then wandered out in my civvy jacket for a friendly chat. Should have seen his face when the van turned up.

 

[Smurf]

Two birds with one stone and all that. Nice one :laugh:

As a window cleaner now, I would have left and returned later.
As a police officer, I would have been aware of the wc turning up and would have come out and politely explained that this was a bad time and maybe to return another day, if I was dealing with something serious. If it was only taking a witness statement or something I would have not cared that you were there and would have left it up to the home owner.

I once had this happen. The only difference was that I had a plain car. The window cleaner had no idea I was there as I was wearing a civvy jacket over my uniform. This was a delicate matter and the complainant did not want her neighbours knowing I was there.

The window cleaner was known to us (police) as a burglar and we had a warrant out for him. In truth we had not tried to catch him yet.

I made a radio message and arranged for a police van to join me. Then wandered out in my civvy jacket for a friendly chat. Should have seen his face when the van turned up.

 

[spruce]

As a window cleaner now, I would have left and returned later.
As a police officer, I would have been aware of the wc turning up and would have come out and politely explained that this was a bad time and maybe to return another day, if I was dealing with something serious. If it was only taking a witness statement or something I would have not cared that you were there and would have left it up to the home owner.

I once had this happen. The only difference was that I had a plain car. The window cleaner had no idea I was there as I was wearing a civvy jacket over my uniform. This was a delicate matter and the complainant did not want her neighbours knowing I was there.

The window cleaner was known to us (police) as a burglar and we had a warrant out for him. In truth we had not tried to catch him yet.

I made a radio message and arranged for a police van to join me. Then wandered out in my civvy jacket for a friendly chat. Should have seen his face when the van turned up.

Its good to hear a reply from another perspective.

I wonder if that customer retained the services of that window cleaner.

 

[SPCleaning]

Its good to hear a reply from another perspective.
I wonder if that customer retained the services of that window cleaner.

For 12 months he was,.......unavailable.

 

[Smurf]

My wife must have employed the same window cleaner yonks ago as he was either on the run, in hiding or banged up. /emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[SolarPanelCleaning]

berwick on tweed

I went to primary school in Berwick, the parade. Think it's a library now. Nice town, lots of history. Lived over the border in Paxton.

If I see the force, move on. Stay under the radar.

 

[peter rogers]

came across some mad ones myself and was at a house and i called the police lol

the next door neigbour cut a tree down and it wrecked the guys conservatory when i was cleaning it

the girl came out screaming i said it wasn me she said no **** she started throwing stuff over at the guy who cut the neigbours tree down big evergreen was all u cud see

i calmed her down and called the police and gave statement and all and guess what i didnt even charge for the clean pmsl

 

[Smurf]

Now that's what I call a green clean :laugh:

 

[Smurf]

My wife will not let frank get a chainsaw for some strange reason /emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[Duncs]

I went to primary school in Berwick, the parade. Think it's a library now. Nice town, lots of history. Lived over the border in Paxton.
If I see the force, move on. Stay under the radar.

spc went there to

MR Browell the headmaster

paxton and paxton house

the parade school , libary then all converted into houses, there is nicEB &B there also

I clean the lot now

 

[Duncs]

When I was a lad if you got caught doing something silly you use to get a thick ear from the local bobby and taken back home . Then I would get another thick ear from my dad after the bobby had gone.. /emoticons/biggrin.png

mind smurf that was a long long time ago:rofl:

 

[Smurf]

Yep they had silver whistles too in the good old days /emoticons/biggrin.png

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