Bob Foster
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Arrive at the job. Driveway plugged with vehicles. She's out trimming the cedars around the front door right where the hoses go through with clippings everywhere.
We go inside and nothing is picked up or ready. I asked her if she needed to get her car out of the driveway before I started and she said no. So she proceeds to pick everything up and I price the job. Then she says oh yeah my cats have this spot that they like to pee... Ok.... I can deal with that but it will cost ya. No problem.
4 vacuum canisters later I finally get to the point I can pre-spray and CRB the carpet. About a bail of Persian meow comes out with the CRB. So then she says I got to go the bank for you can you let me out? ,,,,, ....... ,,,,,,,, ......(smile) sure thing!
So I unhook stuff and move the van forward on the road. You see they couldn't move the other three cars on the driveway because nobody else was home. So then I back up as close as I can to not block the neighbors driveways. It was at the end of a cul-de-sac where parking is tight anyway.
So back I go at it again on the wand and I look up out the front window and the neighbor and her son where staring at the front of my truck.... Gee thanks lady I just got all practiced up on putting bumpers on about two months ago.... She roasted it. She actually just drove in her driveway a few minutes earlier right past my truck so how she never took this into account a few minutes later I'll never know.
Wait it gets better, or should I say worse.
I finish the job and my customer who went to the bank to get some money for me decided to go on a mission to buy this fantastic Bissell vacuum I just told her about. I sat and waited for her for 45 minutes to get paid.
At least she apologized and said what a great job I did (again - did it last year too).
Sheesh......
We go inside and nothing is picked up or ready. I asked her if she needed to get her car out of the driveway before I started and she said no. So she proceeds to pick everything up and I price the job. Then she says oh yeah my cats have this spot that they like to pee... Ok.... I can deal with that but it will cost ya. No problem.
4 vacuum canisters later I finally get to the point I can pre-spray and CRB the carpet. About a bail of Persian meow comes out with the CRB. So then she says I got to go the bank for you can you let me out? ,,,,, ....... ,,,,,,,, ......(smile) sure thing!
So I unhook stuff and move the van forward on the road. You see they couldn't move the other three cars on the driveway because nobody else was home. So then I back up as close as I can to not block the neighbors driveways. It was at the end of a cul-de-sac where parking is tight anyway.
So back I go at it again on the wand and I look up out the front window and the neighbor and her son where staring at the front of my truck.... Gee thanks lady I just got all practiced up on putting bumpers on about two months ago.... She roasted it. She actually just drove in her driveway a few minutes earlier right past my truck so how she never took this into account a few minutes later I'll never know.
Wait it gets better, or should I say worse.
I finish the job and my customer who went to the bank to get some money for me decided to go on a mission to buy this fantastic Bissell vacuum I just told her about. I sat and waited for her for 45 minutes to get paid.
At least she apologized and said what a great job I did (again - did it last year too).
Sheesh......
