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Regularly (every year) told off for mowing over cut down daffs at one business park.
Apparently it kills them....
They can't quite see the irony that we do it every year..;-)
A few years ago husband tells me to prune a dogwood down to ground level. But he had not told his wife, who with a tear in her eye came rushing out just as the said shrub hit the floor. I never do anything in this garden now without checking that they have discussed things between themselves and agreed.
Not been told of for cutting anything down but last Friday i popped into see a regular elderly customer and left her gate open. the dog instantly ran away in the blink of an eye.! "OH JAMMMMES YOU LEFT THE BLOODY GATE OPEN"
I had to run down the road after the dog, pick it up and take it home.. sigh :)
I regularly get told off for no reason.
I am married though : )
One client 'told me off' for leaving a gate open as I walked through with the mower and his dog ran out. I quit the job that day as nobody talks to me like that! Dog owners that can't train their dogs have no right to blame anyone for the behaviour of said dog, and if the gardener is in cutting the grass the dog should not be in the garden.
There are probably too many examples of client pettiness to mention.
But this thread reminded me of an article I wrote a few tears back about choosing customers.
"It is as though they need to be in control of you and I do not exaggerate when I say, once they sign on the dotted line, their personalities can change even further, making it feel like a 'them and us' situation - some clients demand more than a pound of flesh."
http://www.landscapejuice.com/2008/03/how-to-select-y.html
apparently after doing a maintenance job, i left a gate open (no chance, i always shot the bolt by standing on a bin to reach over - you remember things like that), and the small family bunny escaped - it was found and returned from half a mile away..... hmmmm. rabbits - busy roads, cats, foxes, dogs...... i just never could see it being possible myself, but anyway, that was what i was accused of.
Got told off by a customers neighbour for gardening while her husband (who worked nights) was sleeping. I thought to myself, i can hardly come back in the middle of the night to do the garden. It would be dark, i wouldn't be able to see what i'm doing.
Husband came out a fortnight later and smoothed things over laughing about it.
In a roundabout way I got told off for reading the same newspaper as my customer! We were having lunch on the first day on site, when she bought us a cup of tea, stopped dead in her tracks and said in a very BBC plummy voice "Oh goodness, you read the same paper as us.....I thought you people read the Sun!"
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