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    Quote Originally Posted by Edstar78 View Post
    Go to the tip with a load of green waste today, already quoted price including $30 each tip visit (5 needed). Girl hops out of the booth, measures width, height and length and tells me I've got 3.6 cubic meters in the trailer. Then goes on to tell me they only take up to 3 m, but she'll let it through this time even though they should refuse me. Guess how much they wanted each trailer load......

    $105 !!!

    Had to ring client and recommended a chipper or find a mate with a bonfire pile. Also had to up quote from $800 to $1000 to cater which really annoyed me- its not professional. But at the same time neither is absorbing tip costs and working for nothing!! Luckily my client knew he was getting an awesome deal and wasn't stressed.
    Yeah ed, its $35 per cube all over the morn pen for contractors. $105 seems pretty fair to those greedy pricks. Also it depends on who's at the till.

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    Yep this is about the best logical answere, leave a message, txt, BUT DO NOT HIDE FROM ME/US, i'm thinking of asking them to ring my landline, then give them the number of the local massage joint with "happy endings" or some adult shop, cop shop, hospital, RSPCA, school, immigration, maybe even the Optus helpline,(that'll get them ringing themselves) just for fun,.....
    Quote Originally Posted by 4 Gardens View Post
    I don't answer private numbers, if they are genuine customers they will usually leave a message

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    Dealing with telstra makes me grumpy, having a newish subbie help with putting the mower on my trailer but not fastening the latches/springs properly and having the trailer ramp hit the road at 60kph makes me grumpy, then dealing with a dodgy trailer shop who didn't bother showing up for work after i had booked in a time for it to be fixed, well that just makes me mad......what the?

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    flat tyre on trailer on the freeway. was ruined.
    replced with spare. drove another 5 mins and it was flat ended blowing up too.
    damn 2 flats. left trailer on side of freeway to get a new tyre....
    damn it.
    Everything looks good with a haircut.... ɐuıɥɔ ɯoɹɟ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sʇɐɥʇ

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    Hey dude, saw your trailer on the side of the Hume Highway this morning, no car in sight, hope it was intact when you got back to it?

    Quote Originally Posted by imoww View Post
    flat tyre on trailer on the freeway. was ruined.
    replced with spare. drove another 5 mins and it was flat ended blowing up too.
    damn 2 flats. left trailer on side of freeway to get a new tyre....
    damn it.

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    This makes me grumpy , had a plumber put a new hot water service on for me last week, and when the clown went to cool his copper pipe down after soldering it up he cooled it off in my fish pond , I had seven gold fish that were over ten years old now I have none they all died over the week 4 on the first day. When I realized something was wrong I changed the water but it was to late, I think the acid in the flux was the problem. Anyhow as I have been typing this the wife has just walked in with a letter from the plumber saying sorry about the fish and a hundred dollar gift card for the local pet stock. Spose its better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick

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    Quote Originally Posted by NLALM View Post
    This makes me grumpy , had a plumber put a new hot water service on for me last week, and when the clown went to cool his copper pipe down after soldering it up he cooled it off in my fish pond , I had seven gold fish that were over ten years old now I have none they all died over the week 4 on the first day. When I realized something was wrong I changed the water but it was to late, I think the acid in the flux was the problem. Anyhow as I have been typing this the wife has just walked in with a letter from the plumber saying sorry about the fish and a hundred dollar gift card for the local pet stock. Spose its better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick
    Had a similar thing happen years ago, I had a cousin visit from interstate and he dropped an old 2 cent piece into my fish tank. Fish were dead within 24 hours presumably from copper poisoning.

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    GOD F%^&ING SCUZZY BAST#@D DAMMIT (luckily I'm an athiest) ITS GODDAMNED RAINING AGAIN!!!!




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    Hey dude... Yep. All good. it was there when i got back.
    I had not other option but to drive to Ingleburn to get a new tyre...
    I kept thinking someone may take it while i was away...
    Great the hear you're in the area dude....

    Quote Originally Posted by LGGF View Post
    Hey dude, saw your trailer on the side of the Hume Highway this morning, no car in sight, hope it was intact when you got back to it?
    Everything looks good with a haircut.... ɐuıɥɔ ɯoɹɟ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sʇɐɥʇ

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    Your kidding me?????
    Better not rain tomorrow...


    Quote Originally Posted by Redeye View Post
    GOD F%^&ING SCUZZY BAST#@D DAMMIT (luckily I'm an athiest) ITS GODDAMNED RAINING AGAIN!!!!
    Everything looks good with a haircut.... ɐuıɥɔ ɯoɹɟ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sʇɐɥʇ

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    imoww, get one of these http://www.indmowing.com.au/catalog/...roducts_id=211 never leave home without it!




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    People looking for quotes give me the ****s. Missed a call this morning for a full garden clean-up. (Which would have been really great to get at the moment as I need to come up with an extra $16,000 in four months). Rang back straight away on the given home number and mobile number. Left messages then and another three times during the day, Finally talked to them when I rang back again tonight. "No don't worry we've already got someone else."

    ****ers.

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    Don't you just love it when you have a reg ride on job with a couple hundred meters of nature strip AND out of the blue the local council decides it wants trees planted every 10 meters AND loosely mulched around the base also

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    Quote Originally Posted by South East Mowing View Post
    Don't you just love it when you have a reg ride on job with a couple hundred meters of nature strip AND out of the blue the local council decides it wants trees planted every 10 meters AND loosely mulched around the base also
    Just mow over them, they wont notice for a year..

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    Quote Originally Posted by South East Mowing View Post
    Don't you just love it when you have a reg ride on job with a couple hundred meters of nature strip AND out of the blue the local council decides it wants trees planted every 10 meters AND loosely mulched around the base also
    I have the same situation ride on mowing a nature strip of some 400 or more metres long and have never though of the council doing such a Grrr thing. I know the property owner would go off tap and demand removal of such with their mega rate paying clout across the city. As they have been able to get other annoying trees removed.

    John, How has the property owner reacted to it.
    Cheers Garry

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