Top Ten Things You Should NEVER Say To Any Residential
Plumbing, HVAC, Or Electrical Serviceperson
by
H. Kent Craig
Taken from actual comments made to actual servicepeople!
- Are all servicepeople ignorant rednecks, or do only
ignorant rednecks become servicepeople?
- It must be a good thing to be making a decent living
from your trade, considering your limited education (spoken
to an HVAC tech with a Master's degree in mechanical
engineering)
- Will you take this off your books, and come back later
and do it on your own time for half price? (Unknowingly
asked of the owner of the company)
- Jesus! I'm a physician/attorney/accountant/Indian
chief, and I don't charge this much an hour! (Every
single tech gets sick of hearing the variations on that
one)
- $5.53 for parts, and $55.00 for an hour's labor? I
could do it cheaper than that myself! (Next time, go for
it, pard')
- If you don't re-landscape my yard and make it look it
look precisely like you found it, before you had to
dig my yard up to find that broken pipe that was making my
yard a swamp and making my water meter spin like a top for
the past few days, and I mean you'll leave not a trace of
mud or exposed dirt anywhere, I'll sue, I'll swear I sue!
- Either you fix this faucet/light fixture/fan motor for
free, or I'll call your boss and falsely accuse you of
stealing something, and have you fired.
- Aw, c'mon, pretty please, I didn't mean it quite that
way, won't you please fix that faucet/light
fixture/fan motor for free for me, just because I'm such a
nice person? Your boss'll never know, promise!
- I know what kind of people you servicepeople
are . . . . I'm getting short on pot, and my dealer got busted a
couple of days ago . . . know anyone I can score some weed
from?
- Wanna hear a funny joke? . . . once, there was this
honest serviceperson . . . .
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