one of my customers phoned tonight, the conversation went like this, hi tom its me * (that's not his real name but you'll soon find out why), oh hello how you doin' fine thanks, eeerrrrr have you got a plunger ? yea i fink so why? can i borrow it my bogs blocked. do you want me to bring it to you? yes please the wife's got the car, ( he lives 500 yards from my house) ok I'll see if i can find it, ring ya back in five, Hi *, i fink i lent it to someone who never returned it, oh dear what shall i do screwfix sell them, why not go and buy one, tom, is there anyway you could go and buy one for me ? BBRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,,,,,,,,,,,,, if you'r a good natured person people take the weee royal Edited due to language
Yes Tom knobhead sounds a very fitting name for this selfish idiot,I bet I know where you would like to stick that plunger.
yep chebbsie, that's very apt, and on that bombshell i'm off to bed for a looooong think about the rest of my life,
I have a neighbour like that. Tools borrowed were spotless but came back dirty, so I decided that I would not have one, or it would be loaned to a member of the family, after a couple of calls he latched on to to another neighbour!
Like I have said before in other posts, they all want everything for nowt these days. When I was young I was silly enough to do freebies and then always got those people coming back complaining about some nonsense. I soon learned that if I was going to be listening to idiots complaining, I should be getting paid for it. I also refused to do work (paid or otherwise) for those who had complained about when I did free work for them as a favour.
You missed your chance there Tom, I'd have said "Sure, you give me £55 call out charge fee and I'll go and get you the plunger which you can also pay for"
Carriage? It's 500 yards. How much do you charge for wear and tear of the soles of your boots? Mr. HandyAndy - Really
OK, you have got me started on the tools rant now! Really good friend never scared to ask to borrow stuff... Borrowed a torque wrench and big socket to sort his car out. A year later i was looking for it and after searching everywhere for the best part of the weekend, made do without it. Borrowed my practically new 7 metre ladders to render his porch and came back with all slop over them. Has borrowed my mixer several times and comes back stinking. Borrowed a pair of CK cutters and because i thought i lost them; bought another pair before realising he had them. I should add that i end up dropping stuff off and collecting it and he never volunteers to bring stuff back and less i ask him - should i remember. It goes without saying that he no longer borrows nowt!
Plenty of takers out there Fats,I don't lend out any tools because of that reason.As my old boss used to say -Better to have your tools and not want them,than want them and not have them.
yea, i'm gonna toughen up now, my wife says I'm too childish but she's a hard nosed b*tch, she threw my batman suit away last week just cos she had a mood on
You'd be surprised at "carriage "costs Handy. I've just priced up a new (plastic) handle for a fridge at work. (must weight all of an ounce and a half) £10 to come 20 miles (that's just the carriage costs) Altogether, around £50 for a piece of bloody plastic.
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