Got the job details just in case they need anymore work doing?
Anne Widdecombe is looking for someone to tie a flag halfway up a lamp post.
Even I have limits.
I do lots of things for 'free' if they amuse me or flatter my sense of social worth. The result of this is that I seem to get given 'free' stuff randomly.
I have been given a nice big wood lathe with a couple of dozen chisels, a bike, a box full of bullets, big lumps of wood for scultptures etc. These often just appear leant against the garage at the bottom of the drive and it can take weeks to find out who actually left them there and why.
I have been given a nice big wood lathe with a couple of dozen chisels, a bike, a box full of bullets, big lumps of wood for scultptures etc
Wait, what? "A box full of bullets"? Is that really what you said (realising who the quote comes from, it doesn't entirely surprise me, tbh) Did you find a good use for them?
I got a free vasectomy from a customer who I’d supported. He was a GP who had a vasectomy side business (as opposed to a plumber or something)
Plumbing as a side business for a GP would be slightly unusual... but then I suppose plumbing kind of was his side business.
I had a vasectomy from a GP who, if i hadn't already paid, would have accepted payment in butterflies. It's difficult to explain...
I saw a film once about a plumber who turned up to a lady's house to fix her washing machine and she said she had no money...
That happened to a mate of mine once (boiler rather than washing machine though)... He's been married to her for 10yrs now, with kids, a house, the lot! 🤣
To be fair... Wasn't the first time it happened to him... Not by a long shot! He had a bit of a reputation for putting the Carry On style cliches into household boiler repairs amongst his peers by all accounts! Strangely he seemed to have a few regular customers too! 😉
Quite often drugs.
Happened to me once too... Never so much as smoked a spliff in my life, but was wandering along at uni one day about 25yrs ago, and saw the guy 50yds in front of me reach into his back pocket and something fell out... When I got to it, I realised it was a £20 note, so picked it up, had the brief "should I, shouldn't I" conversation with myself, before running after him to say "excuse me mate, you just dropped this"... He thanked me profusely, then gave me a funny knowing handshake with a little present in said hand... 🤣
I didn't know what to do with it... Needless to say one of my mates was more than happy to relieve me of it...
Been paid in beer more times than I can remember for things... Despite NEVER having drunk beer! 😩
Not sure a vasectomy from a GP is a great form of payment. I got mine for free from a GP, because NHS.
Not me but Mrs FD was gifted half a cow as a thank you for dealing with someone in her job
We had to use other people’s freezer space to put parts of it in.
Anyway got a border to cross so must concentrate.
Great days but glad they're gone and I never got my collar felt!
Are you absolutely certain about that?
Absolutely just crossing back from Argentina into Chile after finishing Careterra Austral. Great trip but a long way from an airport at the end!
Another time...I used to do firework shows and ended up in the middle of nowhere in southern Scotland to do a show for a 21st birthday.
Show went well and after I'd stripped the site and cleared up, I headed up the party just to let them.know.i was heading off.
The parents had ordered an extra lamb carcass and had been cooking it for me to eat when I'd finished. Took me about 1 hour before I couldn't eat any more of it...it was soooo good.
Drive back home wasn't the best as I'd eaten so much I was wanting to have a sleep!
My better half once got paid 2 Watermelons for going on a visit to a donkey with Colic. TBF it was in The Gambia where we were doing some vet work for a Charity. V tasty watermelon too!
