Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

DW refuses too and gets annoyed when I do - I think it is always worth offering as politeness costs nothing and you certainly aren't going to get a worse job for offering (unless your tea/coffee is really rank I guess....)

If your tea/coffee is really rank, the workman just feels sorry for you.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've now read the destruction leaflet from front to back. 50% of it is warnings of what not to do. They perpetually make it sound like it'll just burst into flames and set fire to anything on, under, around it

The lead is very short, VERY short. the plug itself barely reaches to sit on the top.

Just measured it, 90cm long. The issue, like most appliances, is that most of the lead length is 'wasted' as it's affixed to the opposite side to where you'd choose it to be.

There is only one tiny spot in the kitchen where it can be used/plugged in.

Instructions are written by the legal department these days. I'm surprised the lawyers allow anything in apart from warnings.

Do you have a long extension lead, so you can take the new oven outside the house to try out for its test launch (so to speak)?

Generali

I found out today that we have special nerves for itches, different to the ones for pain!

Loanranger

I offer a cuppa because it's polite, too. I remember on one occasion a bloke and his mate came to unblock the joint sewer we share with next door. He did not come into the house, obviously. When I offered him a cuppa he told me he was so grateful and that I was the fifth job he'd done that day and the first to offer them a drink.
I don't think it's to do with bloke to bloke bonding especially since I am an elderly woman!

Loanranger

Yesterday, we had two blokes in to fit a tricky kitchen appliance and one drank coffee, white,one sugar, and the other refused hot drinks and said he was fine with his own bottle of water. They were here from 8.30 to 12.45 pm. It's really unkind, IMHO, to not offer a simple drink.

SingleSue

I always offer a drink, if they are working outside I take it out to them rather than invite them inside to drink it.

Mostly it is refused but it always seems to put them in a good mood/make them more friendly when tea or a cold drink is offered.

It's something I learned from my parents, they have always done it, so I do it too.

*Can't offer coffee, never have any in stock!

michaels

Generali wrote: »

I found out today that we have special nerves for itches, different to the ones for pain!

Isn't that why you rub whichever bit you have banged to confuse your brain into downplaying the pain signals?

PasturesNew

Just tried to chase up the library enquiry I made on 4 February.
It rang.... and rang .... and rang.....and rang .... until it disconnected.

ivyleaf

So glad you've been able to use your new oven PN :T

Nikkster

You need a kitchen island, PN