If you thought it was all over, it isn’t now!
Yesterday’s goal by Jermain Defoe put the kibosh on all non-football lovers’ hopes for a return to normality – at least until the match with Germany.
The World Cup is not popular in this house! It’s coincided with building works that come to a halt every time there’s a match.
During the USA vs England match we lost several plasterers, which meant the tiling couldn’t be finished. When England played Algeria it was no-show from the plasterers or the electrician, and the Slovenia match left us bereft of tilers and plumbers.
The low turnout was really no surprise, but the problem is that every time a trade doesn’t make it there’s a knock-on effect to their week’s schedules and we go back to the bottom.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m delighted that England are getting their act together but success on the pitch shouldn’t relegate customer service.
Anyone else having similar frustrations? Pass me the trowel…
Well it is a religious festival after all, but one that only occurs every four years, unlike Christmas. One has to take a sanguine view and always ensure there is no World Cup being played when planning major works! After all, you wouldn’t expect builders to work through Christmas would you?
Ah, but as ever, the work was supposed to have been finished by now! And I don’t mind them taking time off for their religion as long as they tell me, instead of promising to be there and failing to turn up. A polite ‘I won’t be here tomorrow’ would suffice. Grrr.
From my experience, builders are superb communicators, when it comes to asking for tea.
True. Plus, I am sure if we treated our clients the way builders treat us we’d be out of a job very rapidly. So, how come they get away with it?
Tetley is doing very well out of us! We’re continually buying 240 bags of the stuff for the builders. Brickies, roofers and carpenters all seem to run better on tea but tilers and plasterers seem immune to its charms. Can’t understand it myself. If I don’t have my Twinings continually throughout the day I just can’t function!
Seriously though, our builder has ‘sacked’ his tiler for failing to turn up for this job, so there is some justice in the world.