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Re: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
Talking of which………
I did a call not too long ago, and when the lady answered the door she almost fainted when I said I was there to fix the washer.
” Bl**dy hell……I haven’t rung you yet, its only just packed up!!!!!!!”
But the call was booked yesterday says I. 😯
Turns out the call was round the corner in the Drive and I’d gone to the Close with the same name.
Got two jobs out of it though!!!! 😉Tony C
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Reminds me of an incident a few years ago…had an irate lady on the phone threatening to sue me for not turning up as i had promised, causing her to take a day off work needlessly, leaving her lumbered with a washer that still didn’t work etc.
It took two or three minutes to calm her down and explain to her that she hadn’t even called me before, and that it was another engineer she’d called who had let her down…she’d made a note of the engineers number on a piece of paper which she’d subsequently mislaid, and picking up her local parish magazine she saw my number and assumed it was me! 🙄
To cut a long story short, i got to do the repair….and have been back several times over the years, indeed I rate her as one of my most lotal customers!
…..ohhh…..and her coffee and cake’s pretty good too! 😆Re: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
You have it so easy the odd mouse and lizard I arrived at a customers house only to find to get to the front door had to navigate past some bee hives . Lucky it was getting late and they were a bit sleepy.
Make it to the Machine and got to work.
Next thing the husband starts swearing runs out then back in the laundry with a shotgun relived as he goes out the back door but then starts shooting. Me thinking Im in the middle of a rather serious domestic despute.? He brings in a Brown Snake with a few holes in it.
Australia also has its good side in the summer went to a house no answer at the front door so went round the back and had to contend with a small dog. Heard a shout and just turned round as the naked woman covered herself with her towel. Didnt see a thing I could have kicked that dog.Re: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
Those Aussies get all the fun but you can keep your snakes thank you!
Talking about snakes….
In the summer of 2002 we were staying at a friends ‘cabin’ beside Stockton Lake in Missouri. He had a rifle leaning against the wall which was kind of scary to say the least. When we were sitting on his deck that evening I asked why the rifle was there and was it loaded?…”Sure!” he said “…..”you cain’t sit here on the deck this time of th’evenin’ without one ‘cos of those darned ‘Diamond Backs’ all over the place!I thought he was joking until we got back from a day on the lake next day and we just got settled into a ‘cook-out’ on his deck, I had just reached into the cool box for another beer when a deafening bang in my right earhole, blasted me to the floor. I got up dazed to see my friend and a smoking rifle, blood and beer everywhere!!
There was a Diamond Back hiding behind the cool box and he blasted it to hell and almost me with it!!!! 😯
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Dont you just love them… we have had a customer for years and no matter how many times you feel youve knocked them on the head they still keep coming back..
This lady originally booked a call to a Zan wdryer, banging. when we arrived she had just moved into the flat and it was nearly on its side.
We levelled it and tested and made our invoice out. That was that.
Time moved on we received another call from her. it was booked next day, then cancelled, then she turned up at out then other shop and happily purchased a new washing machine, but it had to be delivered that day. Needing the business we did and left it with our man Costas (coz he always cost us). Later in the day I asked how he had gone on, to be told that she asked him to look at the original machine found a blown fuse replaced it and left.
I telephoned the customer informing that due to her cancelling the service call we sent a delivery driver not an engineer and should not have attempted any repair on her appliance. We accept no responsibility for her machine under any circumstances. Her reply “I asked him what I owed and he said whatever you think” and pocketed the £20 she gave him. 👿
Get rid of her,,, but some years later the phone rings, the shops have gone and you think yes I still owe you one. so I attended to find a HPT first edition with an out of balance spin light flashing. She then informs me that its still under warranty and what do I owe you. So I took my £40 and said next time you have the same problem read the book or phone hotpoint, she clearly thinks the machine has mended itself because it now is spinning.. 😉
Two months later shes back on, come and see me again, well its under warranty, I dont care come anyway was her plead. So off we go.
On arrival she greated us outside telling me to move my van, but isnt this your parking space. yes exactly.
Thinking should I just drive away, but Ill get nothing. Anyway once she’d got that out of the way she’s back on the nice side again…cup of tea. reload the washer and watch it spin.
This time she wants rid, she wants a really good machine, really expensive that wont let her down.. I recommend the Siemens WIQ1434 at £899 (she can afford it) Great bring it tomorrow. 😛
I am thinking of the lovelly hotpoint washer coming in. and the phone rings guess what, cancel the machine.
She paid my Invoice of £40
Most of my calls are taken by my brother these days so I am waiting for him to kick off about this woman, cause she’ll be back I am sure.Eventually we fired Costas, for going on call to fit a wm door switch and getting a recall a few days later due to leaking door seal, when asked he stated it had a hole in it, further questions about size and he calmly stated “it was big enough to fit the switch through it.
Customers like this one and trainee engineers like that why bother.. 😥Re: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
How many customers do you meet in the course of your business that can only be described as (to put it mildly) ……”off their trolley!”
Like the lady that asked me to please call back later as she had just put the machine on a wash and it would take over an hour to finish. When I insisted I be allowed to step in and fix whatever was wrong with it there and then I discovered she was just washing four ‘J Cloths’ 😕
……or the lady that hid behind her husband to tell me what was wrong with her dishwasher but would only talk through her husband and not directly at me. Resulting in a conversation that was repeated too and fro with me adding that I did actually hear what his wife reply was. It was bizaar when for example I asked “Did the light come on when you pressed the button?” for her husband to repeat that to his wife. (and no she wasn’t deaf, dumb or blind…just friggin’ crackers if you ask me 🙁
I think they must be breeding like rabbits in my area ‘cos I met another today…..a classic crackpot in no uncertain terms………
She answered the door with her pet pooch in her arms and ushered me to a Whirlpool dryer supposedly not working at all. I turned it on and away it went…..”What’s the problem with it then?” I asked…”It doesn’t do what it is supposed to do!” she replied, “I put my washing in it with the powder and it comes out just the same?”….
…”But it’s a TUMBLE DRYER!!!!”….I replied ❓
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For one job yesterday the customer told me she would be out but her son would be there to let me in. When I got there I found a note on the front door step:
“washing machine man key for Back door In frat door plant pot please take It and open the slide doois at back!.”
I suppose the kid must have hoped any burglars would be illiterate. 😆
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I got a call in a less than salubrious part of town, rang the doorbell and a huge bloke answered the door. He looked like a cross between Mr T and Odd-Job with his shaven head, earrings and eyebrow piercings. He smiled, stood back to allowed me in then shouted over his shoulder with a voice like Dale Winton’s………….
“…….Ooooohh Adrian! Its the lovely man who’s come to fix our wishy-washer thingy! 😯 🙁 😯 🙁
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Back in the old days 1960’s, I had a call to a washer, Got to the house , a note was pinned to the door, thought here we go , a wasted call. Note said, washer man, call round to back door and let youself in. Went round back and let myself in, thinking there would be another note. Instead I was greeted by a pair of very large spinsters, completely nude and at least 60 years old. The nearest one said come and get us, I did a Roger Bannister and run like hell.
During the peak of the ‘lump’, cowboy building, I had a call to a washer not taking in soap powder. The customer had only just moved in, her husband had connected the machine up. The washer had been working fine until they moved. However the machine had a strange smell, I asked her if it had been standing, replied only a couple of days. Switched machine on, hot valve buzzing, no water, cold valve working OK. Turned hot tap off, disconnected hose, held hose over sink and turned tap on, no water. Strange hissing sound and funny smell, the plumber had connected it to the gas pipe. Told the customer, not surprised she said, the toilets flush with hot water.
Bra Wires
A few years ago I went to an old Philips washing machine at a farm. Fault was something jammed in the drum. The husband let me in, I decided to tackle the job by removing the sump hose. Lying under the machine I removed the sump hose from the tub, feeling inside I found the problem. It was an extremely large and thick piece of wire, I managed to get an end out of the sump hole, gripping the wire with a pair of pliers I was having a real tug of war with it, suddenly the room went dark, but I carried on with the tug of war.
A female voice behind me asked if I had found the problem, I replied I had, but I wasn’t sure what it was. I said originally I had thought it was a bra wire, but it was too big and too heavy a gauge of wire, it was more like a heavy duty 2-gallon bucket handle or a piece of heavy wire off the farm. I carried on with the tug of war with the wire, after ten minutes of struggling the wire finally came out. Refitted sump hose and got up off the floor. Turning round I saw the woman for the first time, she was the largest female I had ever seen, I should have guessed, all the doors in the house were extra wide.
I showed her the wire, it was a bra wire, the woman promptly clouted me round the earhole and I saw stars, she said that was for being cheeky. Anyway she paid the bill and I have been back, I still say it would have been a good heavy duty handle for a 2-gallon bucket, although the bucket might be too small for it to fit.Called to a Hotpoint today, 95 series, electric tripping. Checked carbons first, very short but not enough to trip, must be heater, took front of machine off, tested heater, s/c. Hell of a job to remove heater, didn’t want to come out, finally come out. Holding it in was at least a ‘DD’ bra wire, I showed it to the husband, he didn’t have a clue what it was. I told him what it was, he shouted his wife, as he was in his early twenties I thought his wife must be worth seeing with large 😯 😳 . Much to my surprise his wife was very petite, with a ‘B’ cup at the most. He then starts having a go at his wife about the bra wire. I got paid and got out before the fun started.
About 6 months ago, I received a call to go to a Creda w/m, probably suspension. I had to be there at precisely 11 am, and she would meet me from work. I arrived at 10.55, I knocked on the door in case she was early. A woman answered the door dressed in jeans and just a bra, a 36D black lacy one ‘for the excitable readers’. She apologised for her state of undress, and said she had been on the sunbed. I thought ‘funny’, apart from the fact she was as white as a sheet, in theory she had only just come in from work.
Anyway she showed me to the washer, by the time I pulled it out (the washer) she had taken her bra off and was standing there in just her jeans. She said , do you like my tits, I replied “yes, they’re very nice”, and carried on looking at the washer. I am getting old, I’ve got tennis elbow in both arms, housemaids knee and a bad back.
Any way, by the time I had got off the floor after looking at the suspension on the washing machine she was completely naked.
She then said if you are not a tit man, you must be a ‘cat’ man (think about it). So I asked her where the cameras were, she said there weren’t any, she had a bet with her sister, that she could get off with the repairman. Any way I told her how much the washer would cost, and I wouldn’t charge her a call out. I was worth it for the entertainment.
Will auction the address at Sibson on Friday night, dont forget to take a set of shock absorbers.
More to follow if wanted Ace.Re: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
Nice one ace
I had a young chick in a short nighty 2 feet away As my hand was shakeing trying to get the back off she tells me she was anoyed at the last repair guy for getting a bit cheeky so called someone else.
Me I would rather have the money saferRe: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
Heres a good one from down under
A local repairer goes to fix an LG front loader with a broken door
no problems door fixed
Couple of weeks later gets a call that the new glass in to thin ?????
Goes out has a look to see the problem The bearings are getting nosiy and
customer can hear the noise reckons it’s because GLASS IS TOO THIN.Re: Amusing Anecdotes & Other Tales
This is an apocryphal tale about an “easy job on a Friday night”
About 15 years ago.pre-mobile phone days I went to a Newpol (remember them) and quoted £25 for a drum pulley-knowing I’d got one back at the workshop. I said I’d call back that evening about 7.00pm.
My wife was going to the theatre that night in her car with her friends in the same town where the job was-so being clever I said she could drop me off with the pulley,I’d fix the machine and go and have a few pints with the lads with cash from the job.(The customer promised to pay cash).Wife could pick me up from pub after the show.
Nice summer’s evening T-shirt and jeans,wife dropped me off.I had the pulley,13milly spanner,stubby screwdriver and receipt already written-just enough for the job.
Job was in the kitchen,the lady went to watch TV in the next room.I put the pulley on and tightened it up-I thought I’ll just give it an extra tweak so I tapped it with the coal hammer that was lying on the floor.The end of the stud fell off followed by the pulley!I couldn’t do anything -no toolbox.I was hopping around the kitchen like Basil Faulty on my haunches clutching my head ,turned around and the lady was stood behind me.
Exit stage left-no money for beer,and had to walk 4 miles home and yes it started to rain.
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I once had this job, got to the house, note on the door – “Washing machine man, please go to garage side door”, thinking there was no one in and no car on the drive I walked round to the side door and opened it…
Lady of the house was running a beauty salon from the back of the garage and there she was with her client on the couch having her bikini line waxed.
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Reading through this recent thread:-
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/modules.p … ic&t=10258
…reminded me of the customer who bought a labrador puppy and was very concerned that it wouldn’t eat she took it to the vet. The vet gave the pup the all clear but suggested she try a different dogfood. Again he refused to eat or drink and was getting weaker and weaker, she returned to the vet.
The vet kept the dog for a few days for observation and found it eat and drank heartily all the while it was with him? He concluded it was not the food the dog objected to but possibly where he was being offered food? He suggested she try feeding her dog in another location within the household, which she did and he eat with relish and grew into a strapping healthy dog.
It was several months later that she got a shock off the dishwasher and called me out, that she then sussed the source of the dogs troubles 😆
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