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Its bad enough when someone rings and asks if you are a plumber. :rolls:
Just had a bloke on the phone asking me to go and change the batteries in his smoke alarms. 😯 😆
Jim.
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A few years ago an old chap walked into what was our shop at the time and asked “do you do trips out ?”.
I replied yes we do whats the problem your washer, dryer or oven ?
” I want to see the lights” he say’s. I’m starting to get a little puzzled now.
“which lights have gone out, is it your washer?”.
“Blackpool” he say’s ” I want to go to Blackpool”
Anyway after much confusion it turns out many years before the shop was a sweet shop which ran regular excursions to the seaside 😆Re: Strange requests.
iadom wrote:Its bad enough when someone rings and asks if you are a plumber. :rolls:
Just had a bloke on the phone asking me to go and change the batteries in his smoke alarms. 😯 😆
Jim.
You do know that is a £45 call-out for an electrician don’t you Jim…
George
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These days I would go and do his batteries anyway. I get customers who refer to me as “the plumber” eg. I hear the customer answer the phone and say “I’ve got the plumber in just now, sorting the washer.” Washer meaning washing machine, not tap washer!
This does mean that I sometimes get asked to do plumbing jobs but I mostly have to turn them down as my public liability insurance does not cover plumbing.Re: Strange requests.
LCD t.v’s and trouser presses are the current favourite oddities at the moment. Once got asked the best way of tackling dog fleas 😯 as we live where a dog grooming business was once set up.
Fancy eh…..one week they service dogs from there, next week it was fixing Indesits. No difference really 😉TC
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The landlady at my local said to me recently…………………….. “I hear you sort out womens problems, can you come round and give me a quote?”
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Good lord Martin, thats the second time in as many weeks you’ve been asked to help with a customers p*ssy 😯
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Amused that one cant use the word ‘p*ssy’ on this site without it being blocked.. 🙂 What if I wanted to talk about my cat?? 😕 🙂
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Recently got asked to repair a treadmill and a childs ride on train 😯 .
MervRe: Strange requests.
Egg incubator and ceramic pottery kiln elements.
Not done a PS3 or X box yet but got to be a market it in. Along the same lines as GHD hair strainghteners. Done a few of them before.
Never been asked to do smoke detector as a single job but some clients asked me change batteries and as always, some try and push it for you to do as much as possible for their money.
I’ll change a battery for an extra cup of tea or a peice of cake any day. 😀
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The treadmill’s easy. It’s the big pcb in the bottom. Only eighty quid or so. The customer orders it from America or somewhere and all you do is plug it in. Saves them £2k for a new machine.
Done the incubator too. Used an ordinary central heating stat.
Always carry tap washers in my tool bag. Owe it to water conservation.
Clean out sink traps now and again and the other day helped a friendly customer remove the old toilet seat. She said I was a :angel:
Mike.
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