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Re: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
Hands up those who think I need a holiday
:lesson:
Take a small break and the regular customers will be begging for you to come back.
Nice ‘house on fire’ joke too, you made me laugh spit all over my monitor.
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I DID REPAIRS IN FRIEN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS, BEFORE IT CLOSED, THEIR WAS LOCKED WARDS, OPEN WARDS, GERIATRIC WARDS THE SMELL WAS SO BAD I USED TO TRY HOLDING MY BREATH WHEN WALKING PASSED SOME AREAS,IT HAD THE LONGEST CORRIDOR IN EUROPE AND MOST OF IT WAS USED AS A URINAL. MOST OF THE MACHINES WERE FITTED IN THE SLUICE ROOMS,=FLUSHABLE SINKS FOR BED PANS. .I WAS KNEELING DOWN REPAIRING A MACHINE WITH MY BACK TO THE DOOR, SOMEBODY COME IN COME VERY CLOSE BEHIND ME, AND STARTED TALKING AFTER A COUPLE OF MINUTES I TURNED AROUND STILL KNEELING TO FIND A NAKED YOUNG LADY ,.” PANIC” JUST THEN A NURSE WALKS IN , , I THINK THIS LOOKS BAD. IM GLAD TO SAY SHE REALIZED IT WASNT A SITUATION OF MY MAKING.
MOST OF THE WARDS WERE SO DEPRESSING, SCREEMING CRYING BEGGING FOR CIGARETTES BUT NO ONE EVER GIVE ME ANYRe: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
pmb wrote:SCREEMING CRYING BEGGING FOR CIGARETTES BUT NO ONE EVER GIVE ME ANY
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Goatboy wrote:
Nice ‘house on fire’ joke too, you made me laugh spit all over my monitor.
Nor suprised with teeth like yours Goatboy 😆
Andy
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Message on the answerphone this morning from an older lady. Rang her back and her first words where, “did I leave my correct phone number” 😀
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Went to a house a while ago to repair a cooker. When the job was sorted this woman asked me to have a look at her Hoover w/m. ‘It keeps stopping and I have to move it’ on she said. When I checked the machine out I discovered that it was not letting any rinse water in, just initially filling with hot on wash. As the machine was only 14 months old I thought its unlikely that the valve coil had gone so I pulled the machine out and found the cold service valve was turned off. Turned on the valve and everything was OK.
After explaining to her the problem I was amazed to discover that she had had this problem since the washer was new, whoever had installed it had not turned on the cold tap! She had not had her clothes rinsed for 14 months!!!! She just kept moving it on until the final spin.
I asked her why she had not complained while it was under warranty but I think she just did’nt want to cause any bother.
It never ceases to amaze me how much people differ.
Andy
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andy2 wrote:
I asked her why she had not complained while it was under warranty but I think she just did’nt want to cause any bother.
It never ceases to amaze me how much people differ.
Andy
Know what you mean, many years ago had a machine that had been used for almost 12 months with transit packing in place. The woman and her husband physically held the machine down when it came to the spin cycle.Re: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
I get this all the time as i am leaving.
‘Thank you for coming so quickly’ 😆
Whats more they tell my wife on the phone.
‘He always comes so quickly’ 😳
To which my wife always replys…………………….. 👿
Andy
And then we have the customers who are full of their own self importance and should be avoided at all costs
http://www.neurosemantics.com/Articles/ … rtance.htm
http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/desiderata.html
Oh, by the way, I do work at making at least three good mistakes a day just so that I know that Im still fallible and stretching beyond my current comfort zone. How about you? Lets toast, “Here’s one to good ole human fallibility!”
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andy2 wrote:To which my wife always replys……………………..
a) “Don’t I know it!
b) “You’re not wrong there”
c) “Tell me about it”
d) “It been a problem for years”
e) “His mother says his father had the same problem”
f) “He’s improving as he get older.
g) “Never noticed, i’me usually asleep by then.
h) “Ar’nt you the lucky one then”!
I) “Wait until I get my hand on him”No prizes but which is the right answer?
(Is this getting off topic?)
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Lads, please can we not get too personal here and keep the anecdotes a little closer to the general theme of this thread ❓
Martin
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Martin
I was only explaining how the customers appreciate my promptness attending the job, and thank me for that.
Also how my wife responds when they complement me on the phone!
Funny………………………. I never could understand why she answers them in the way that she does.
Mmmmmh!
Andy
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andy2 wrote:Mmmmmh!
Indeed so Andy, but rather I was addressing my comment not to you as such, but more to our ‘enthusiastic antipodean’ colleague, who’s input I wouldn’t wish to discourage in any way except perhaps to advise him against giving medical advice unwisely :rotfl:
Martin
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