Danfire
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Started a new customer last week, she told me her previous cleaner was a postman and he just stopped calling. I had heard a couple of years ago about a local cleaner that fell off his ladder and I seemed to remember him being a Postie. I mentioned this to the new customer and she said, "no that's Barry, he lives over the road, he fell of his ladder and he's in a bad way".
Fast forward to today, I picked up another new client that was a walk up from the previous new customer. I thought it was a first clean the frames were that black with grime but bizarrely the glass seemed not too bad. I mentioned this to the customer (elderly lady). She said "I did have cleaner but he had an accident" (which explains the glass being clean). She asked me if I knew Barry, I told her I didn't but I understand he lived in her street and he had fallen from his ladder. She corrected me, her information was he was sat on an upstairs windowsill and the window fell through and he fell head first into the patio. This happened a few weeks ago just before the lockdown.
Poor old Barry is 70 years old and is now paralyzed from the neck down. I can't believe there's windies out there in their 70's still laddering up to clean windows.
Fast forward to today, I picked up another new client that was a walk up from the previous new customer. I thought it was a first clean the frames were that black with grime but bizarrely the glass seemed not too bad. I mentioned this to the customer (elderly lady). She said "I did have cleaner but he had an accident" (which explains the glass being clean). She asked me if I knew Barry, I told her I didn't but I understand he lived in her street and he had fallen from his ladder. She corrected me, her information was he was sat on an upstairs windowsill and the window fell through and he fell head first into the patio. This happened a few weeks ago just before the lockdown.
Poor old Barry is 70 years old and is now paralyzed from the neck down. I can't believe there's windies out there in their 70's still laddering up to clean windows.