CrevisbigX
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I am grateful if people give £20 for helping them even a tenner. But the other week pulled a Sainsbury Van out of the ditch and they sent us £180 vouhers.
How much is 'a drink' these days?
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M-J-G
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If a do someone a favour like that, and they offer me money I generally just tell them not to be silly.
Sometimes it's worth more than money, just to know you've helped someone you didn't have to help!
You can find out all you need to know about someone based on, how well they treat those whom they don't have to treat well.
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Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
Last time we went to a point to point at Larkhill we were just leaving the car before the races when I saw a young chap struggling to change a wheel using one of those useless 9 inch long standard wheelbraces . I got a length of scaffolding tube from the back of my car and we had his wheelnuts loosened in a jiffy. He didn't offer me anything, looked like he'd need a new tyre as the flat one had a bit of rebar from a concrete building that been demolished next to the course, sticking through it,
Got back to the car feeling good about life when OH said had I noticed our front nearside tyre flat as a pancake with another bit of rebar through it (perhaps that was why nobody else had parked there) ? I think we did win some money there but not enough to cover tyre repairs.
We never went again.
Got back to the car feeling good about life when OH said had I noticed our front nearside tyre flat as a pancake with another bit of rebar through it (perhaps that was why nobody else had parked there) ? I think we did win some money there but not enough to cover tyre repairs.
We never went again.
TheTallGuy
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In my former line of work I once popped in to see a customer on the way home from another job as it was only short detour (and I fancied a brew ) - as it happened they had been discussing how to speed up one of their production lines & so asked my opinion - 15 minutes later I had tweaked some software so that they could run about 5-10% faster. Their boss man was over the moon & offered to buy me a meal after I refused to take any payment - I assumed it'd be pie & chips in the local round the corner, but no it was a full on 5 star restaurant with a proper silver service 5 course meal - I did feel somewhat out of place wearing a pair of jeans and grimy company polo shirt. Some time later I discovered that the tweak I did made that company an extra several thousand pounds per week profit - maybe I should have taken the cash!
Trouble is that sometimes it all backfires - we had one customer who we did a favour for & was then plagued for years with him constantly trying it on & then moaning like hell when he got billed.
) - as it happened they had been discussing how to speed up one of their production lines & so asked my opinion - 15 minutes later I had tweaked some software so that they could run about 5-10% faster. Their boss man was over the moon & offered to buy me a meal after I refused to take any payment - I assumed it'd be pie & chips in the local round the corner, but no it was a full on 5 star restaurant with a proper silver service 5 course meal - I did feel somewhat out of place wearing a pair of jeans and grimy company polo shirt. Some time later I discovered that the tweak I did made that company an extra several thousand pounds per week profit - maybe I should have taken the cash! Trouble is that sometimes it all backfires - we had one customer who we did a favour for & was then plagued for years with him constantly trying it on & then moaning like hell when he got billed.
I've been avoiding a customer for a month, who's newbuild warehouse I've wired. He rang me before Christmas to tell me he'd got an envelope for me. I instantly told him to save his money and treat his kids but he won't have any of it, seeing him tomorrow and if he forces it I will accept for the sake of not being ungrateful. The way he says it I don't thinks it's just 10 or 20 quid. It's a fine line trying not to blur the customer lines when your employed.
DeeGee
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Couple of places where I trade throughout the year where I try and appreciate what they do. One is a dealership who always try and fix any problems with my machines, the other an agri merchants who are more than helpful in so many ways.
I always take them both a couple of tins of sweets at Christmas as a small thank you for their help during the year. Costs me very little financially but the way they look after me every year is worth so much more.
I always take them both a couple of tins of sweets at Christmas as a small thank you for their help during the year. Costs me very little financially but the way they look after me every year is worth so much more.
A few years ago I used to work for a stable building company and we had a job to construct a block of 10 stables at a large house not too many miles away. I had taken a small gang so there were four of us and the job was in its closing stages. It was in the height of one of those rare phenomenons, a heat wave and with doing the finishing touches such as the guttering many of the jobs were not in the shade and we were all suffering a bit with the heat.
In the middle of the afternoon the customer, thought of herself as the Lady of the Manor came down to inspect. She remarked about the heat and asked me if we would like some cold drinks, expecting something like lemonade or the like she came back an hour later with a tray with three mismatched glasses part filled with tapwater! More of a bloody insult than anything considering there was four of us!
In the middle of the afternoon the customer, thought of herself as the Lady of the Manor came down to inspect. She remarked about the heat and asked me if we would like some cold drinks, expecting something like lemonade or the like she came back an hour later with a tray with three mismatched glasses part filled with tapwater! More of a bloody insult than anything considering there was four of us!
I spent around three years working all over the country putting these things up, when I started I was thinking about tight jodphurs and fit young fillies, nothing was further away! Just think of all the happy hackers in the country, all those fat cobs that not so long ago were in front of the milk float or rag and bone cart, they say dogs look like their owners, the same can be said for many of the horse owners
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thats crazy surely hes having you on?
Old McDonald
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That is the way I prefer to do it too. I have found the "boss" generally appreciates that he and you have a business arrangement and he is making a profit from your custom, whereas it is a nice gesture to give a tip to his employees.
I was once given a Mars bar for having done someone a favour by lending a couple of text books for a week. That obviously did not warrant a reward. I am not joking when I say it was very touching to find the books and bar had been secretly left in a safe place where I had to find them quickly.
As the title of the thread asks, how much is a pint of beer these days. My wife and I were discussing this a few nights ago. I drink about a bottle of table wine a day, plus some fortified - all with lunch and dinner. From what I had heard via a second-hand telephone conversation, I got the impression my weekly cost of wines might be less than going to the pub once a week for 4 or 5 pints, which is less than I used to consume on a Friday or Sturday night.
I buy wine in 5 litre casks at between €6 and 9, or bottles at about €2.50 to 4. Echange rate roughly €1.15/£ makes the cask wine (approx not exact) 80p to £1.20 a bottle and the wine already in bottles a bit more than £2 to £3.50. Ruby Port and Moscatel de Sétubal about £4.50 to £5. So, maybe £15 to £17 a week. Some would condemn me for spending that, but at my age I am inclined to live as I please, rather than as how other people would have me live.
Obviously I could pay a lot more, but I watch for bargains and have a few hundred bottles in my half-full cellar, some of which I bought for under €1 on special offers 10 years ago and more. I also have a few vintage Ports for my son and grandchildren, but these are not my everyday drinking - more an investment for them.
Sussex Martin
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- Burham Kent
I'll be in Faro next month, would you like a bit of help to polish off a couple of bottles of the vintage Port?
Old McDonald
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I'll be in Faro next month, would you like a bit of help to polish off a couple of bottles of the vintage Port?
It would cost you more to get here than I paid for the two bottles I would be prepared to share with you. I keep very few for my own consumption. As I get older I prefer Ruby. I do like it after I have cellared it for a few years - totally contrary to the view that it should not be cellared, but a tip I picked up in an old book by Allan Sichel.
Old McDonald
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