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Tea for two……..not on your Nelly!
Went to a job today, started fixing machine, when the customer asked if she could pass me to get to the kettle, 😀 me thinks that’s a good idea ? 😀 .she then pops off until the kettle had come to the boil, then gets one cup and one tea bag and makes her self a cup of tea then pops off into the sitting room to drink it, 😯 well I did not know what to say. 😯
Very easy job fixed in ten mins, so when it came to payment it was the full fare love! 8)This is the second time in a year that this has happened to me , so I might start to bring my own cup and tea bags on the jobs from now on !
Is this down to the credit crunch,,?? Or just blo…..y rude 👿
canufixit
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I’d guess it was her landlord paying for the job and she had no interest in trying to woo you. 😯
Does beg the question, is everyone that gives you (or me) a cup of tea getting a fiver off*?
BTW Are you sure that the one she made for her shelf wasn’t actually for you?
Mike.
*Only if with biscuits. £2 otherwise.Re: Tea for two……..not on your Nelly!
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:I’d guess it was her landlord paying for the job and she had no interest in trying to woo you. 😯
Does beg the question, is everyone that gives you (or me) a cup of tea getting a fiver off*?
BTW Are you sure that the one she made for her shelf wasn’t actually for you?
Mike.
*Only if with biscuits. £2 otherwise.OPPS, HER SELF GOT THE TEA , AND NOT THE SHELF 😳 ,and it was her house and machine, not a bad place,£350.000 type of place,a cup of tea does not get you a discount, but it does go a long way….
canufixitRe: Tea for two……..not on your Nelly!
i have one from the other side of the coin
customer asks if i would like a cup of tea i say yes milk + 1 sugar please
she puts on kettle then dissapears only to walk in through the back door 5 mins later with a pint of milk she had just purchased from the store down the road as she doesn`t use milk
needless to say she got a discount
and she gave me the rest of the pint to take with meRe: Tea for two……..not on your Nelly!
Or the half way there ones that say
‘The kettles there if you want a coffee’
Er….thanks! :rolls:TC
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While I was diagnosing a fault on a machine the customer was making me a cuppa,I stood up just as she was about to hand it to me and told her that I would have to order a new drum”well you wont want this then will you” she said and poured my coffee down the sink 😯
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kiddo66 wrote:While I was diagnosing a fault on a machine the customer was making me a cuppa,I stood up just as she was about to hand it to me and told her that I would have to order a new drum”well you wont want this then will you” she said and poured my coffee down the sink 😯
oooh…………. so Near …….. then to have it taken from you like that……
NOW THATS BAD….. :eeek:
CANUFIXITRe: Tea for two……..not on your Nelly!
Speaking of cups O tea it reminds me of a competitor of mine who lost a few customers with his “proactive” cup O tea solicitations. Apparently he’d go to a customers house to fix the washer and whilst she was explaining the problem to him he had a habit of interrupting them mid flow and saying, “What’s that noise?” in a startled manor.
The customer would be puzzled and start wondering what he could hear and he’d say something like, “Oh sorry, I thought I could hear the kettle”.
Not everyone appreciated his unsubtle hints.
I used to ask for a drink of water please. Most people would start to get one and then say, “are you sure you wouldn’t prefer a cup of tea (or coffee?). I also found many of them put the kettle on for want of something to do when I went out to the van to fetch something and left them just waiting in the kitchen.
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One good customer always offers me a cup of tea as soon as I walk in the house but have lernt to refuse after the first offer.
Was handed a pint mug with 2 tea bags in it then told sorry dont have any milk or sugar as dont use it myself !
How does one politly dispose of a pint of hot tea thick enought to stand the spoon up in with the customer still in the room chatting to you? 😕Re: Tea for two……..not on your Nelly!
I find very few customers can make a cuppa i consider drinkable, but i am very fussy when it comes to beverages.
My very favorite drinks dispensing punter is called June, a very pretty yummy mummy in her early 40’s, countless cups of real frothy coffee made without being asked.. god i wish i could swap the wife for her.. 😯
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My fave trick is when hubby offers a cuppa which I refuse ……then when his wife walks in and says “I don’t suppose he even thought to offer you a drink”?
I reply “No he didn’t but I would live a coffee please” 😆
Mean …….but great fun!
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My dads vave was asking the cust if the kettle needed looking at while he was there as he thought is must be broken because it’s not on!
The wosrt ones are the little old ladies who offer a drink but dont make it until you’ve finished the job (so it doesnt go cold) then get a pan out and start boiling it on the hob! three days later you get your coffee which when done in a pan seems like its the temperature of magma!
Nige
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I used to love the old ladies who offered a drink when I was fixing a vacuum cleaner in the lounge and turn up later with a tray with, as they say in these ere parts, “all’t bag-o-mashings”.
i.e teapot, milk jug, proper cup and saucer, sugar bowl and plate full of fancy biscuits.
I always had a dilemma when the plate of biscuits was a little too plentiful, say a blue ribbon wafer biscuit, a couple of digestives and a couple of chocolate biscuits. Was it just there so I could pick one? Or maybe I was expected to have a couple? In such a case I would just leave one digestive so as not to appear greedy.
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