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Picture this, it’s the end of the day, your on your last call, and your belly is bloated from all the coffee and tea people have been kindly making you all afternoon.
This customer says “Would you like a brew?”
And you really don’t want one 😕 But you can’t just say “no” and offend the customer for life. That was the first thing I was taught on this job. Not electrical safety, brew manners!
So, you think, ‘I can squeeze one more in, if it’s a good one,’ and reply “I’d love a brew, thank you”
Then you get the most gawd-aweful, p***-water, piece of crud brew, that you’ve ever tasted 🙁 And the customer won’t leave the kitchen so you can dispose of it! I had to drink the bloody thing! 🙁 🙁 🙁
Does anyone have any cunning methods of brew disposal?
Maybe “Just go and check if your circuit breakers are ok!”
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Years ago, I poured mine into the washing machine… Like you do… Only to find the customers net curtains inside… Whoops. 😳
Bob
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Goatboy wrote:But you can’t just say “no” and offend the customer for life.
We all know that virtually every customer whose threshold we cross in the course of a day comes out with the standard UK greeting ….. “…would you like a drink?” and if you fail to respond by simple saying “…no thank you I’ve just had one!” then be prepared for sampling the extreme and unique delights of the insipid, in-house, indescribable imbibe (some may need to look that last word up in their Funk & Wagnalls 🙄 )
Trust me, in most cases you’d wished you’d say no to the dreaded brew!
There’s a lot of homes I’ve been in that you’d have to be clinically insane to say “yes” to having a cuppa in, or anything else that’s ingested for that matter… even if it is sealed in a packet! 😉
K.
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(some may need to look that last word up in their Funk & Wagnalls )
It is great to know that I’m not the only person who gets funny looks from others when I ask them to look things up in the Funk & Wagnalls.
There can’t be many of us who know what one is.
Richard
OBTW – HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.
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I don’t get offered brews alot anymore. And sometimes, if you say yes, you can get a very good one. But, if it’s not so good, it will help strengthen your immune system? 😕
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Richard wrote:There can’t be many of us who know what one is.
All the best to you too for the New Year Richard, you old dog 😉
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Goatboy wrote:I don’t get offered brews alot anymore.
Not surprising really – the rest of us use a mug, not the saucer 😀 .
“No thanks, I’m a Mormon” usually gets rid of the customers I really don’t like – permanently.
Chris.
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I was offered a brew this morning by a nice elderly couple as I walked into the kitchen.
I was freezing outside and I could “scupper a cuppa” but I had the good fortune of spotting two bottles of “sterra” on the door step. :eeek:
I graciously declined.
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Why is it that when you really could murder a brew, they never offer, or if you do accept, they take an age to brew up, the job is finished and you then spend ten minutes trying to down a scalding hot cuppa.
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I find a lot of people only offer a cuppa after I’ve started writing out the bill. I suppose they want to make sure they are not paying by the hour for me to drink their tea. One of the worst drinks I’ve been given was when doing a job in the hotel next door. I suppose they must buy those 10p per thousand teabags for giving to tradesmen. Some of my elderly customers lay on a superb spread, with butteries, Scotch pancakes, cakes etc. If I remember I allow extra time for such visits 😀
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