Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:01 am
its a funny old life
had to meet a plumber and chippie yesterday to sort out a new sink base unit and worktop on a place i maintain
anyway by the time we finished at 1.30 it had cost me 180 odd quid for labour and bit s (my own time free of course)
my daughter wanted her 8th birthday party at a local italian restaurant,so as that started at 12.30 i got there just in time to settle the bill £91,just at that point i got a call from the tenant that water was pishing everywhere from under the sink
without thinking i gave the waiter my card and said "take £120"
he said are you sure,but i was already effing and blinding at the plumber down the phone
he had already had a drink so i had to get a cab home get some tools and go back to the job,whilst in the cab i realised that i had tipped the waiter £29 <ffs>
anyway got under the sink in my freshly cleaned and ironed clothes and found that pete the leak had neglected to tighten up a nut on an isolating valve and 1 of the 3 wastes
he is binned
by the time i had sorted this out and taken the tools home and got back to the pub it was 6 o'clock (5 hrs robbed off my life)
anyway whilst supping a pint of gods own black stuff i checked the bill,the waitress being european had done her sevens like a one and when i recalculated the bill should have been £119 :;):
either way it got paid but someone did better than their boss
watched the Ireland/ all blacks game==> tremendous game of rugby then match of the day came on
i then remembered my customary £7 patent that i put on every Saturday for a bit of interest (as Luton arent on the telly any more)
and this was the result
it certainly is funny old game
LLL
had to meet a plumber and chippie yesterday to sort out a new sink base unit and worktop on a place i maintain
anyway by the time we finished at 1.30 it had cost me 180 odd quid for labour and bit s (my own time free of course)
my daughter wanted her 8th birthday party at a local italian restaurant,so as that started at 12.30 i got there just in time to settle the bill £91,just at that point i got a call from the tenant that water was pishing everywhere from under the sink
without thinking i gave the waiter my card and said "take £120"
he said are you sure,but i was already effing and blinding at the plumber down the phone
he had already had a drink so i had to get a cab home get some tools and go back to the job,whilst in the cab i realised that i had tipped the waiter £29 <ffs>
anyway got under the sink in my freshly cleaned and ironed clothes and found that pete the leak had neglected to tighten up a nut on an isolating valve and 1 of the 3 wastes
he is binned
by the time i had sorted this out and taken the tools home and got back to the pub it was 6 o'clock (5 hrs robbed off my life)
anyway whilst supping a pint of gods own black stuff i checked the bill,the waitress being european had done her sevens like a one and when i recalculated the bill should have been £119 :;):
either way it got paid but someone did better than their boss
watched the Ireland/ all blacks game==> tremendous game of rugby then match of the day came on
i then remembered my customary £7 patent that i put on every Saturday for a bit of interest (as Luton arent on the telly any more)
and this was the result
it certainly is funny old game
LLL