Wife needs a slap!!lol

[Paul.M]

Couple of years ago I was throwing in a new display lighting circuit for a Victorian shopping arcade for the walkway and shop fronts. Full on PPE, tower scaffold, hard hat, signs & barriers the full works when a woman walks past and says my name.

"Paul, I have'nt seen you for years (since a teenager). What are you doing now?"

"I'm an Electrician."

Her reply still reply still makes me cringe.

"Ho, just an electrician?" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to bite my tongue at this stage, she really rattled me with that 4 word sentence. (Paul, count to ten and smile so not to offend her:devil: ).
In my head I thought about her and her husband + family which I knew very well back then and nothing has changed since. Without sounding elitist or putting anybody down for what they work as for a living, all I had in my head was what she and her husband does to pay the bills. She is a full time cleaner (nothing wrong with that, my mum did a part time cleaning job for over 20+ years after her full time job). Her husband has worked in the same timber yard for over 30 years and only getting a quid above min wage and he is the simpleton that will do anything and everything for the bosses although he has not had a pay rise for 4 years?


"JUST AN ELECTRICIAN" is the worst one I've had due to the background. What did she expect of me to become when she knew me as a teenager? A doctor or something? We all got brought up in the same area and only age separates us, not many people from that estate make anything of their lives but to say "just an electrician" was a blow under the belt.

 

[trev]

There were these two brickies on a job I was on once, They'd built up a thriving business hiring brickies and labourers out to building companies and still liked to get their hands dirty, one of the (very nice) houses we'd built had been handed over to the owners who wanted a wall building so these two lads got stuck in. After a while the guy who'd bought the house came out and started talking down to them and I heard the phrase "Well your just bricklayers what would you know"
Quick as a flash one of them asked him what he did for a living and how much he earned last year, he replied "I'm in IT and I pulled in 80k, why?"
The reply wiped the smile right off his smug face "We're only bricklayers but we eached grossed £120k last year" exit one red faced homeowner. Obviously they didn't tell him that the 240k was their company's turnover but he didn't spot that

 

[Rockingit]

Boys - we're 'only' electricians until the lights go out, the heating goes off and Corry can't be watched. At that point, that very instance in time, we become Gods. We become knights on chargers, we become the men who wear our underpants on the outside with our capes flying in the breeze, we become the very centre of their universe. It's only afterwards that they forget all that and start to remember the bill.

 

[Guitarist]

Unless we have worked on the installation in the past. If we've even so much as taken a screwdriver to a light switch and months down the line a blown lamp takes out the RCD, then it's our fault as it "has only done that since you touched it."
Then the customer expects it done straight away for free as really it's our fault...

That said, I had a customer this week give me more than I asked for at the end of a job as she was so pleased with what I had done.

 

[SparkyJoe]

Unless we have worked on the installation in the past. If we've even so much as taken a screwdriver to a light switch and months down the line a blown lamp takes out the RCD, then it's our fault as it "has only done that since you touched it."
Then the customer expects it done straight away for free as really it's our fault...

That said, I had a customer this week give me more than I asked for at the end of a job as she was so pleased with what I had done.

was she hot?

 

[Guitarist]

was she hot?

lol, she was in her 60's and the "extra" was a fiver

 

[Silly Sausage]

A 'Fiver' is a Hand Job round my way! :smilielol5:

 

[Des 56]

lol, she was in her 60's and the "extra" was a fiver

So lets recap,in order of reply

You were given more than you asked for
You were asked if she was hot
You replied,she was in her sixties
You also said the extra was a fiver
You have been informed that a hand job elsewhere is a fiver

Do you have more to add or shall we take your future non contribution in this thread as a measure of guilt

You tumped a 60 year old hot customer and it cost you a fiver for the privelege

 

[ipf]

was she hot?

was he shot ?