Undercut by the builder down the pub!

[Gavin John Hyde]

Had a phonecall about an hour ago asking if I could connect a new freestanding cooker up. The lady lives in a apartment building on the same development as me.
Call went like..
Lady: Hi, we have just bought a new cooker from Argos and need somebody to disconnect our old one and wire in the new one.
Me: I can help with that, where abouts are you? (thinking it will be a quick easy job i can fit in)
Lady: We are just along the road from you and wondered how much you would charge to come out later today to do it?
Me: As you are literally a 1 minute walk away I will charge you £20 (lower than normal as its on my doorstep and I am very confident the electrics in that fancy building are okay)
Lady: oh that is a bit high, can you go lower? as our friend who is a builder said he would do it for a tenner, hes down the pub at the moment and said he would pop in if needed after the football!
Me: its a Sunday and I am not a charity, by all means use your builder friend who could be drunk when he wires it in... sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Bye.

I thought it was bare faced cheek on the womans part to expect me to come out on a sunday and connect a cooker for a tenner! Only considered it to begin with as my coffee would still be warm when i got back its that close.
Worse still i am undercut by a less than sober builder down the pub!
World gets crazier by the day!

 

[Squid]

nice Polish lasses who aren't pshyco's.


mine is.

You drove her to it..........

 

[Squid]

u should fill a pillowcase with snooker balls and go to town on the builder, who does he think he is on your patch?

Does the pub have a pool table?

 

[JK-Electrical]

Edit: Duplicate post, and for those of you not familiar with the term, Lassie is a young girl, not a fekn dog!
However, in this particular case...she probably was!

 

[JK-Electrical]

Lassie the dog is an improvement on some of the women from Glasgow.

Does the pub have a pool table?

 

[steamboatwilly]

Yeah, never worth worrying about these 'tenner' jobs. There will always be someone who can do it quicker and cheaper. I'll bet the builder will warranty the work though !

 

[telectrix]

Tame that. In a Scouse pub she'd have been whacked with a bottle before the 1 minute mark.