I get all sorts of awkward customers, many of whom look for any excuse not to pay. But it’s the overly friendly ones you have to worry about
I have been a builder since I was a teenager. I have also worked as a fisher and a tree surgeon, but I always return to building, because it’s the one thing I think I’m good at.
I bolted it back on, but when the wife returned she said: “We’re not paying. It was clearly your mistake.” I imagine the husband had tripped over a kid’s toy, or something, and ripped it off the wall. When I went back, there were all these ladders – clearly, they had been up to have a look at the roof, not trusting that I had completed the job properly. They must have been wobbling around and broken some of the slates, which had fallen off. They insisted no one had been up there. It took me another two or three hours to fix it – unpaid, again, because supposedly it was my fault.
I also know a painter who went to work for a different woman and found her lying on the bed, expectantly. He said he just shut the bedroom door and started painting. Half an hour later, she appeared, fully clothed, and said: “Would you like a cup of tea?” like nothing had happened.
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