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Re: Amusing Ancedotes & Other Tales
Got a day in the shop today 😥 so I’ll probably be posting my memoirs.
This isn’t exactly work related but did happen while sat in the HPT van having my butties in an area of North London that at that time was having a vice clean up.
I was parked up near a block of shops after buying lunch when I got a tap on the passenger side window.
As if from nowhere (no, not Mr Benn) a bedraggled looking woman had come out of a block of flats and sidled up to the van.
Now at this time, lets say I must have been suffering from an attack of severe green-ness. I opened the window to be asked was I looking for business.
Being the company type :rotfl: and not wanting any more work that day I replied” Sorry love. I don’t do private jobs!” 🙄
Exit one flummoxed working girl.Once I came to my senses and realised what she meant I got to my next call and collapsed in a fit of giggles.
Berk!!
Tony CRe: Amusing Ancedotes & Other Tales
I arranged to meet a customer at her house during her ‘lunchbreak from work’. Nice simple job changing a door gasket on a Whirlpool but as time was getting on the customer said “Could I possibly pay you now for the job and go back to work, otherwise I’ll be a bit late and you don’t need me here anyway?”….I agreed, she settled the bill and said “Just drop the latch on your way out!”…and left.
Unfortunately, and what I didn’t realise until a short while after she had left, is that she had re-set her Burglar Alarm on her way out. A few short minutes later the alarm went off, front and back of the house (which I wasn’t too worried about at the time) but then a neighbour spotted this ‘stranger’ in the house and called the police. All this was going on while I was simply run testing the Whirlpool and packing up my tools and stuff.
When I went to go out of the front door some minutes later with the deafening sound of the alarm in my ears, I was confronted with an army of neighbours AND the boys in blue!!!
‘Ello, ‘ello,’ello, what’s going on ‘ere then?… and all that good stuff….!!!
🙁 🙁 🙁
Martin
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LOL 😆
That happened to me once while I was in an empty student let. The letting agent had given me the key and the wrong alarm code :eeek:
Two passing bobbies happened to hear the racket and stopped to see what was going on, found me frantically pushing buttons on the alarm main box while on the phone to the agents trying to get the right code. 😳
Dave.
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I delivered a machine to a customer once ,first call of day and cust left key so I merrily walk in the house through the lounge with the machine on sack barrow ,Suddenly I heard what sounded like a snoring noise lo and behold on the settee is a guy half dressed and snoring like a pig ,I installed the washer and left on tip toes got back to the office and phoned cust at work, turns out he and his mate (the snorer ) had been out the previous night got hammered and crashed on the sofa he forgot he had left the key for me and merrily staggered to work leaving his mate to sleep it off .
LawrenceRe: Amusing Ancedotes & Other Tales
Yeah, those alarm ones brought back a memory of a job in a house called “Chelsea” for some reason (I cannot imagine why anyone would want to call their house that) anyway is was arranged the day before, the customer left me a key and gave me instructions of how to turn off the alarm and how to re set it. Fine, I thought while looking at the printed diagram of the alram box with the code written above. What she didnt mention was…….where this damn box was located! I could hear it beeping at me but could I find it? Soon panic set in and I must have appeared to look as though as I was ransacking the place anyway. Thankfully, although the alarm did go off, I found it hidden in a cuppboard and stopped it but as the house was in the middle of nowhere, No one came, no police nothing.
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I did a a dishwasher repair in a mental hospital where you walk in they lock the doors behind you 😯 to protect you from the patients done the job no problem they asked me if i could take a look at the dryer so i said ok they then locked me in the laundry room 😯 switched on the dryer to see what was going on it tripped the rcd thought ok i will just reset it to find that the consumer unit was locked in a another room which only the caretaker had the key for then the nurse said oh sxxx next thing i know the fire alarm has sounded because apparantly they had a system where if anything trips out or anybody messes with the electricity supply and the thing is not reset within a set period of time the bloody fire alarm screams the place down next thing i know there is hundreds of mental health patients running everywere and the whole place like nothing i have ever seen before or want to see again and because they have got a direct line to the fire brigade 3 fire enginees turned up 😳 😳 😳 😳 so anybody ever asks if i could just take a quick look now the answer is NO
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Customer complains : Washing Machine not filling!
I get there and sure enough no water going in, valve seemed fine took hose off back -No water?
Checked stopcock, works fine but no water to that? Asked customer where mains stopcock is, checks it, works fine, still no water to machine. I decided to trace water pipe between both stopcocks to see if any others in line, to do that I needed to pull fridge freezer away from wall!
It was well stuck and a lot of hastle to pull away from the wall, in doing so a bit clang! bang! and rattling of water pipes was heard. On getting it out and looking behind, found the foam insulation had broken down, great solid mass of ice covering the wall and the water pipes.!!!!!
After a short thawing out, the washing machine was back in action. 🙂
But oh dear missus, your fridge is well duff I’m afraid ❗ 🙁
Martin
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the chest freezer
this happened a few years ago,got a call from a panicky customer,can you send someone to fix my chest freezer plz everything is thawing iv got loads of food in it and i cant let it defrost,yes of course i saw someone can come round this afternoon, engineer turns up with a woman nearly in tears, soon diagnoses that compressor has gone and says to customer will b a few days before i can get back” NO she says cant ya do it today” then she goes on to explain that underneath the food was her dead pet great dane”he died a few years ago an i loved that dog, but i couldnt afford to get him stuffed so i put him in the freezer till i could” the engineer taking pity on her duly went and got said compressor and fixed it that evening thats got ta be the wierdest lol. also had a similar experience as to what was mentioned earlier about the lab, a blood factor 8 laboratory,dressing up in the gowns and shoes minus the showers tho lolRe: Amusing Ancedotes & Other Tales
My son works for Stoves and got called to a cooker with burnt out terminal block customer had fitted a chocolate block to get it going.
He goes in this stinking house 10 dogs and 15 cats looks at the cooker and refuses to work on it! phones me up to say a job from stoves will be coming to me and it did and generally I just grin and bear these smelly filthy calls.
I’ve got the cooker turned round as far as the cable will reach and happily!
working away when I feel this warm water on my bald head! ….ing cat up on the kitchen unit had sprayed on me, it turned out the cat was always doing it down the back of the cooker and it failed insulation test he is now taking it up with Stoves, so hopefully my son will have to go back. luckly it was the last call of the day.Kirk
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Interesting true stories from my life as a washing machine repairman.
I needed to drain a washing machine full of water. My customer opened the back door and fetched a bucket from the yard. I popped it at the side of the washer and we both cringed at the sight of two fat and ugly slugs lounging about in the bottom.
Agreeing we didn’t like slimy slugs I decided to evict them in the back garden but first, I needed to unhook the washing machine’s drain hose from underneath the sink. It only took a minute and returning to the bucket I was surprised to find the slugs missing.
“What the…?” I exclaimed and my customer recoiled in horror …
… I lifted the bucket and there they were – gone. “I didn’t realise they could be so fast”, I said. My customer wasn’t happy. She hated slimy slugs and two of them were loose in the kitchen. We scoured the floor but they had disappeared. I spent a few moments trapped in an illogical loop of looking inside the bucket, lifting it up, twisting it round and looking at the bottom but they were vanished.A thought flashed into my mind and I responded by lifting up my trouser legs. “I hope they haven’t scuttled up me trousers while I was lying on the floor” I remarked, half joking and half concerned. At this my customer became more agitated and she started a more serious search.
Eventually I found the blighters who had met an unfortunate end. As they’d slithered over the top of the bucket they had both took refuge under the small rim. When I’d picked up the bucket with its handle they had each been squashed by the leverage of the handle. If it wasn’t for their tragic death, it would have been funny.
Over the years I’ve removed many household objects from washing machines – none of which had any right to be there. Pens, penknives watches, countless coins and of course, more socks than you could shake a wooden leg at. I even once had a nasty fright when a giant hairy-looking (toy) spider fell out of one. However, I’ve only ever removed one …
… condom. I was young, and alone with a female customer. I had the washing machine partially drained and tipped back against the wall so I could get underneath where the sump hose and pump were.Armed with a towel and a washing up bowl, I had my head under the washing machine – tool in hand (oo-er) and proceeded to undo the sump hose. The customer stood expectantly (as they do) behind me. I pulled off the sump hose and the usual gush filled the bowl with a swirling pool of dirty water. A very large, elongated condom swirled round and round and I just stared at it. “Hmmm,” I thought.
Although not very experienced, I could easily recognise an embarrassing situation despite receiving no training for them. I decided to remain under the washing machine for a while. Sliding the bowl out, with the condom by now floating menacingly still, I pushed it out toward the customer. “Here’s your problem,” I announced.
Shrieking “Oh my God!” she ran into the next room where she remained while I finished the repair.
I did wonder how it got into the machine in its unsheathed state, but didn’t express my thoughts as I gave her the bill. I realized of course I’d not see this customer again. Despite my good service, it was highly likely she would remain too embarrassed over the incident to ever use me again
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Customer complaint: – Dishwasher leaking & smells!
On close inspection found the machine (next to the sink and on a suspended wooded floor that was a bit suspect) was indeed leaking underneath due to an overflowing metering tank fault.
However, on pulling the machine out I discovered on the lino of the very wonky floor underneath the machine, two frogs doing breast stroke in green slimy water full of frogsporn!
Martin
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eastlmark wrote:Guess you’r not hungry tonight then Martin.
Never eaten ‘Frogs Legs’….yuk ❗
Martin
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Sold a F/F delivered it to a ground floor flat, old unit was outside and was asked to take it away, it was an old unit and dropped it straight of at the dump.
A few hours later got an irate phone call from the man of the house wanting it back told him it was dumped and he wouldn’t beleive it, took him up the dump after a lot of abuse, and of course there it was all smashed.
He got inside it and removed about half a kilo of puff he thought we had taken it.
Kirk
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