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I just got a double repair by accident. 😀 😀 😀
The lady gave me the wrong address, but the house I went to said ‘yes, our dryer is broken come in.’
I’m thinking, ‘Stupid woman told me it was a Hoover, this is a Whrlpool.’ But I had a Whirlpool belt on the van and fixed it for her.
As I’m leaving, I get a phone call on the mobile ‘I thought you’d be here by now.’ and I find out i’m at the wrong house 😆 Lady 1 says to me ‘I thought my husband asked you to come, I’ve been telling him to get someone for ages.’
Then I went and fixed the Hovver too. What a way to get new customers!
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Back in the 60’s as an apprentice electrician with the local Board, went to a house in Minehead and with the electrician installed a cooker circuit. Daughter let us in made some tea and left us to get on with it.
House was a 1930’s style with a gas cooker on site, at the time Natural gas was just coming in and the Board had this little promotion if you bought an Electric Cooker to replace this new horrible gas, we would wire the circuit for free.
Just as we finished, Mum came home, You guessed it, we had the wrong house. She popped down to the shop & bought a cooker as she was pleased that there was this god given chance to convince her husband time for a new cooker. The electrician put in a sales lead, which was a little initiative that was going, and got a commission for the sale of the appliance.
Alex
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I’ve done that as well 😳
The really spooky thing is that the lady I went to by mistake was actually waiting for an engineer to come that day! The place was an asbsolute dive – I didn’t even want to set my toolbox down it was that bad. Philco pump that was blocked with all sorts of horrors, some of which still give me nightmares.
The worst part was that we probably didn’t even get paid for it as I was there (or so I thought) for an insurance job.
Oh well, made some other lucky sods day for him by relieving him of the need to get down on the little floor of horrors.Craig
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Only last week I had a call on my mobile…. “Hello! its Sally from The Falcon Pub, we’ve broken the handle on our machine and can’t open the door, can you fix it for us?”…I told her I would pop round later that day and sort it. Called in at the Falcon during a busy luch-time period and told the barman I’d come to fix the washing machine, was instructed round the back and duly repaired the broken door. Landlord paid me from the till and away I went.
When I got home about 4pm that day, my mobile rang again…”Hello! Its Sally at The Falcon, what time do you reckon you’ll be here?” I told her to check with the landlord as I had been round 3 hours ago and fixed it. She said she was the landlord and I’d never called by…..?
Suddenly it dawned on me that I had 2 Falcon Pubs in my patch and had gone to the wrong one 😀
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That just goes to show how many people carry on using the washer when the handle is broken. I always keep a good stock of handles on the van for when they say ‘Oh, that’s been like that for ages.’
And it’s funny when the first thing you do is open the washer door and it comes off in your hand. ‘Oh, it’s been like that for ages. It still works OK.’
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A few years back a colleague of mine (who Alex may know) was sent to repair a zanussi washing machine, later that day the office got a call from the customer asking what time he was going to arrive, followed by a call from her next door neighbour who had just returned home to find her daughter had let the engineer in, was unaware that her identicle zanussi machine was faulty but since he had now been and “repaired” it the machine was now flooding…
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Many moons ago when working for Hotpoint I got a call to a GEC fridge in Hadfield ( better known as Royston Vasey these days). Long row of old stone fronted terrace houses. Fridge door liner has small crack at the bottom, under g/tee repair. Ring the office and get the girls to raise an SSR ( Special Stores Request) . This is in three parts one goes in your slot on the calls rotunda, the other two parts are sent to stores, one of which is attached to the part for delivery to your garage, on the SSR are Engineer No; part details and full customer address.
The call was booked in, two weeks later and I went along to the address given, as written on the SSR. No one in but neighbour came out with a key and let me in. There in the kitchen was a GEC fridge, I changed the door liner but all the time I was doing it I thought, I can’t see anything wrong with this, but had better fit it now it has been actioned. Following day, get a call to say customer still waiting for fridge door liner. 😯
An amazing set of coincidences, the girl in the office put house number 35 instead of 37, ( where the faulty fridge was ) you know what northern folk are like, they are all good friends and bought identical fridges at the same time, and the lady from 33 let me in not knowing which one of the two had the faulty fridge. 😳
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