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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulG View Post
    $100+ Levis jeans that are only 12 months old, worn about twice a week and today have worn through the thighs.
    Actually Mrs Cranbourne has just informed me that only a man would expect to get more than 12 months out of a pair of jeans.

    Only 12 months! I'm with you Paul. Should get at least 5 years.

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    did it hurt when they wore through your thighs? it sounds really painful lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cranbourne Lawnmowing View Post
    Actually Mrs Cranbourne has just informed me that only a man would expect to get more than 12 months out of a pair of jeans.

    Only 12 months! I'm with you Paul. Should get at least 5 years.
    Ken oath 5 years and their just gettin comfy

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    Hahaha! I can't help that I have super-muscular thighs!! Not.

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    I have a pair of jeans that i had since i was 16 and i split the backside on them about 4 months ago mind you over that 14 years i couldnt fit in them for about 5 years put the weight on bouncing but its all coming off now mowing yards.
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    The low life scum bag who lifted my purse out of my zipped up handbag on the very crowded tram coming home from the football on Saturday. I know I had it on the tram because I put 4 validated metcard tickets back in it, placed it in my bag and zipped it up.

    Of course I didn't discover this lack of purse and all its associated contents until I had filled my car with $80 worth of petrol this morning. Lucky the servo guy knows us so well and was happy to let Timmy drop payment in later in the day.

    Thankfully it has been handed in to a branch of the NAB (miles away but I'm just happy to have it back). As far as the lady at the NAB and I could ascertain, all cards, ID etc are still there.

    Idiots for pick pocketing AFTER the football....everyone knows you spend all your cash on footy records, food and drink and their ridiculously elevated prices. Had 75 cents left in it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs HMS View Post
    The low life scum bag who lifted my purse out of my zipped up handbag on the very crowded tram coming home from the football on Saturday. I know I had it on the tram because I put 4 validated metcard tickets back in it, placed it in my bag and zipped it up.

    Of course I didn't discover this lack of purse and all its associated contents until I had filled my car with $80 worth of petrol this morning. Lucky the servo guy knows us so well and was happy to let Timmy drop payment in later in the day.

    Thankfully it has been handed in to a branch of the NAB (miles away but I'm just happy to have it back). As far as the lady at the NAB and I could ascertain, all cards, ID etc are still there.

    Idiots for pick pocketing AFTER the football....everyone knows you spend all your cash on footy records, food and drink and their ridiculously elevated prices. Had 75 cents left in it.
    glad it has the happy ending you deserve
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    8am today - First job for the week. Customer comes out to pay me before I started. $60 for the mow and weed spray in a couple of small gardens.

    "While you're here can you get your thingy and prune these hedges near the front door? Can you also hand prune all the Roses today?" (Remember she's already paid me.)

    Say what!!!!!!!

    There's 21 Floribunda Rose bushes which even at five minutes each is over 1.5 hours extra work.

    Anyway I did the small hedge in 5 minutes but told her the Roses would need to be booked in and charged accordingly next visit.

    "What? You're going to charge me extra to do the Roses?"

    I would have laughed my way around the rest of the job if it hadn't been for the clothesline full of washing in the back yard and the dog-poo everywhere as well.....

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    Truck drivers that scare the living daylights out of me. Coming home up Pt Wakefield Rd this arvo. Belting down rain with lights on and wipers going hammer and tongs I am in the outside lane because I need to go up Salisbury Highway. I see this bloody great truck coming up on the inside lane of the three lanes at a fair lick. Seems he wants to occupy the very spot I am occupying and he does not care for the fact that I am there. I have 2 choices. Stand on the brakes or go over the median strip into oncoming traffic. I chose to stand on the brakes. Just about snapped the offsiders neck because he had gone to sleep and the cars behind me locked up too. The truck ploughed across three lanes and cut me off. My heart was still pumping 10 minutes later. To make it worse the truck gets around some cars then goes back into the inside lane and then turns back down south on Salisbury Hwy. Bloody fool nearly killed the lot of us. Thank god I didn't have a trailer on. At least it woke the offsider up.
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    When i pull up for a job safely and turn the car off in a small street.... And you get the F*kn idiot that pulls up behind you blowing their horn with that dull stare like a stunned mullet waiting for you to continue driving......
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulG View Post
    8am today - First job for the week. Customer comes out to pay me before I started. $60 for the mow and weed spray in a couple of small gardens.

    "While you're here can you get your thingy and prune these hedges near the front door? Can you also hand prune all the Roses today?" (Remember she's already paid me.)

    Say what!!!!!!!

    There's 21 Floribunda Rose bushes which even at five minutes each is over 1.5 hours extra work.

    Anyway I did the small hedge in 5 minutes but told her the Roses would need to be booked in and charged accordingly next visit.

    "What? You're going to charge me extra to do the Roses?"

    I would have laughed my way around the rest of the job if it hadn't been for the clothesline full of washing in the back yard and the dog-poo everywhere as well.....
    Actually , I had a similar thing happen to me 2 weeks ago.
    Regular client who was moving so this was the last job for her. She paid me up front for the mow and asked if i could trim her roses back as well. Trimmed them with the wipper snipper.
    Never again tho.... Those thorns hurt when they zip past your head from the snipper's speed.
    Everything looks good with a haircut.... ɐuıɥɔ ɯoɹɟ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sʇɐɥʇ

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    Quote Originally Posted by courty View Post
    I understand waiting for them to pay for fuel but I get the ****s waiting for them to get coffee or the thousand of other bloody things servos sell these days
    And the unthoughtfull A-holes who wait at the Maccas drive through double checking their 1 cheese burger and fries, then counting their change and taking their time to put the car into gear , then taking the hand break off, then looking into the fR*kn mirrow before they drive off at snail pace.
    Everything looks good with a haircut.... ɐuıɥɔ ɯoɹɟ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sʇɐɥʇ

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    Quote Originally Posted by imoww View Post
    Actually , I had a similar thing happen to me 2 weeks ago.
    Regular client who was moving so this was the last job for her. She paid me up front for the mow and asked if i could trim her roses back as well. Trimmed them with the wipper snipper.
    Never again tho.... Those thorns hurt when they zip past your head from the snipper's speed.
    Anything longer than a few minutes I explain to client it will usually get done next time. I inform clients at the start and/or regularly coming into busy times that I work out my schedule for the day on expected jobs to do and if people ask for extra when i am there then someone is likely to miss their mow or i get home a lot later. MOST understand if you communicate it to them

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    Quote Originally Posted by imoww View Post
    Actually , I had a similar thing happen to me 2 weeks ago.
    Regular client who was moving so this was the last job for her. She paid me up front for the mow and asked if i could trim her roses back as well. Trimmed them with the wipper snipper.
    Never again tho.... Those thorns hurt when they zip past your head from the snipper's speed.
    Funny you say that as the thought crossed my mind to just run the Kwaka hedge trimmer over her roses too after I did the little box-hedge!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulG View Post
    Funny you say that as the thought crossed my mind to just run the Kwaka hedge trimmer over her roses too after I did the little box-hedge!
    which would prune them ok but it still takes time to clean up after, if people don't want to pay they shouldn't expect the work
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