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Got me started now, I did my apprenticeship for a small contractor in Bath, and as you may or may not know Bath has some beautiful Georgian buildings, the sort of work we were involved with was repairing the electrics in some these houses, along with other normal jobs.
I must have been about 18 and was sent on my first solo job, replace a door bell I think, anyway these house had dirty great big front doors (Adams Family style) got there knocked the door and I could hear the owner hobbling along the corridor, door opened with lots of creaking and there stood the spit image of Boris Karloff (he of the early horror movies) scared the brown stuff out of me, needless to say fastest repair I ever did. Oh by the way Bath trounced Leicester yesterday just in case you're interested.
 
During my apprenticeship I was doing some work in house and the customer pointed to a door and said don't go in that room. Any way the customer went out and my gaffer told me to open the door and take a look. As an eager apprentice I obliged opened the door to find a load of birds freely flying around, bird cr@p everywhere, twigs hanging of the curtain rail.
 
Again on my apprenticeship. We was doing the electrics on an extension and my gaffer told me to go switch some of the circuits off. Went in to the room where the DB was, it was low level in the far corner off the room. I crouched down found the circuits I wanted,knocked them off and then went to stand up when I heard a dog growl behind me, any way needless to say I stayed down on the deck turned round and the biggest Rottweiler I've ever seen was standing there staring at me :uhoh2:. I gave it a couple of strokes then went to stand up again, dog was having none of it and started growling again and gave me a tap with its paw, every time I tried the same thing happened. Ended up comando crawling over to the door and stood up and bolted out the door at the 1st given opportunity. I didn't tell the gaffer what had happened and let him go and switch the circuits back on, the story repeated itself but with him instead lol:teeth_smile:
 
Not a site experience, but just the other day, I stumbled upon a a massive pink real looking vibrator and lots of lube next to this birds bed whilst going round the house with my meter when doing a cu change, she was out at the time so naturally I gave it a good sniff... Just kidding I didn't sniff it!
 
Not a site experience, but just the other day, I stumbled upon a a massive pink real looking vibrator and lots of lube next to this birds bed whilst going round the house with my meter when doing a cu change, she was out at the time so naturally I gave it a good sniff... Just kidding I didn't sniff it!

maybe it was her way of calling it on? Lol :teeth_smile:
 
maybe not weird, but once did this rewire for a widow ( about 70). 1st day there, lifted the bedroom carpet to get the boards up, and it was literally underlaid with loads of ÂŁ10 and ÂŁ20 notes between the carpet and the underlay. must have been 5K+. fetched the old dear up to see, and she said " so that's where the old sod hid all his cash" ( meaning her late departed). she then said. " that's it. i'mm off th spain next month , and here's ÂŁ100 of it for you, for being honest".
 
Not a site experience, but just the other day, I stumbled upon a a massive pink real looking vibrator and lots of lube next to this birds bed whilst going round the house with my meter when doing a cu change, she was out at the time so naturally I gave it a good sniff... Just kidding I didn't sniff it!

I bet you did give it a sniff lol. :tongue:
 

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