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"Cowboys, cowboys, everywhere!!!"

Been surrounded by incompetence all this week. First it was the hole people, who dug a big hole out the front of our house and cut off our phone, tv and internet for a week. Then here was the postman who failed to put our letters in the letter box properly, so that they didn't drop - anybody could have walked past and taken important bank stuff, they were sticking out like a newspaper.

But then today we have the plasterers in to do the walls in our new conservatory. New levels of incompetence and bellendeyishness here. First thing one of them says to the gf's Mum "Is there a powercut?", "No", "Then why isn't the kettle on?"...? How rude can you be? I overheard him say this and I wanted to slap him. Seriously, I've never heard anyone be that rude in someone else's home.

Then they broke our letterbox. Good idea to shut the door with the flap morons - it snapped off! So I confronted him and said I was taking a fiver out of their money. The job was a rip-off anyway, but I won't go into that. So I don't think they were happy about that, but I made them a cup of tea and all seemed cool. Until they left, when I found that they'd smashed a wall plug socket - and didn't even tell us. Now I have to buy a new one of them too!

Cowboys. And not the cool type that died of syphillus after shooting Indians for their land.

But you get a discount with a subscription. And I don't know when it'll be released. Or if the shops will have stock in. Or where the shops are. Or how to tie my shoelaces. Or eat breakfast.

Blank wrote:

> When a magazine won't fit through the slot, our postie props it up
> against the outside of the door. Helpful.
>

Go buy the goddamn magazine yourself you lazy who re, as Goatboy would say.

YEEEE HAAAAA!

monkey_man wrote:
> Been surrounded by incompetence all this week. First it was the hole
> people, who dug a big hole out the front of our house and cut off our
> phone, tv and internet for a week. Then here was the postman who
> failed to put our letters in the letter box properly, so that they
> didn't drop - anybody could have walked past and taken important bank
> stuff, they were sticking out like a newspaper.


When a magazine won't fit through the slot, our postie props it up against the outside of the door. Helpful.

Not only could anyone walking past nab it, but trying to open the door to get the magazine without pushing the thing over the other way is like a Crystal Maze challenge.

"Is there a powercut?", "No", "Then why isn't the kettle on?"...?

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Heh, I'll certainly have to try and remember NOT to use that one when I'm hanging a door or laying laminate flooring for someone in the future! :D

To their credit, though - a Bricky could never have come up with something that good! ;)


I see people taking the job up as a lifetime career, but I can't seem to understand what your average home-owning DIY-crazy man finds so taxing when the thought of skimming a wall comes to mind...?

Ceilings, fair enough. But really, there's not all that much too it, a lot of the time...

My dad uses the "power cut" line and the "Is your kettle broke" one.
When I went carpet fitting for a few weeks I was told if you ask a customer for steak and chips they will normally offer a cup of tea but one time we had dinner made for us. Little thing I learnt on work experience.

Pha, I thought this post was going to be about the Bush inauguration, and his slightly sinister promise of freedom everywhere being the priority.....

My little cousin went round to my grans when she had people in to build a fire place.

So he says to the guy
" Where's your hat and gun? "

" What you talking about? "

" My mum said you were a cowboy "

monkey_man wrote:
"Is there a powercut?", "No", "Then why isn't the kettle on?"

Hahahah

Have you paid them yet? You could try taking more out for damaging the socket too.

You shuld have put bleach in their tea. Bleach or a slow release laxative.