How does total wanker sound? Because he was. They fired him shortly afterwards because they knew too.
Over the many years, (something many of us can relate to!) i can think of many similar sales"men". I would volunteer a guess of around 1 in 5 car sales persons actually saying the right words that made me want to buy the car. Being D.A., you can't really blame the majority of them, for achieving sales is crucial to keeping the job, and i know it's driven some to suicide.
Come to think of it, he was wearing a really cheap grey check Timeshare suit, the obligatory 2 sizes too small and those crappy cheap thin pointy shoes. They might also have been grey, which is a total no no in my book.
I'll add you can't trust people in general who dress like this. Can I also add those who wear trousers that don't go all the way down to their shoes totally untrustworthy.
Of course his trousers didn’t reach his shoes either and they were too narrow. Do you think we’re all getting old?
I'll try to steer the thread back on topic... TV Licencing accusing me of being a criminal, saying that '...my property is unlicensed...' in a threatening letter. I'm fed up having to confirm that I don't do something; I never watch live content of any sort (haven't done so for 40 years), so I'm waiting for the promised inspector's visit so I can tell them to fuck off!
Tree "surgeons" who, out of the blue, knock on your door and say:- "I see you have some unkempt trees in your garden, would you like me to chop them down?"
Our neighbour many years ago had a couple of tree surgeons round, they nearly took the front of his house out. After taking the tree down they then became builders offering to do his house maintenance........
"Excuse me, i think i can see a misplaced tile on your roof" Not sure for your neck of the woods, but "getting a man in" has become scary-difficult around here now. The people that do an honest, good job are booked up for 5 years, and the people that have found them tend not to share details. The only good word i've heard repeatedly is when they've hired someone from Poland. The last "plummer" i had to hire because i needed to check my gas pressure, charged me the equivalent of over £300 an hour for his brief visit, and half of that was for time spent on phone sourcing a part. He was on his way home that evening but i still got charged a "call-out" rate.
Same here, luckily anything I can't do I know a few people who I used to hang about with when a youth. My plumber mate has helped me a few times over the years with various tasks that I didn't trust myself to do.
We had roadworks in our village last year. The sub-contractors (genuine company) were going round offering to tarmac resident's driveways at a discount because they were already in the area and had the materials to hand. They offered to do my rough stone and grass parking area for £1500. That's not bad I said. So you're going to dig out the substrate, stone it up, lay edgings and apply a base and top-coat? He shuffled his feet and left.
