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Date: 04 May 2006 12:43:37
As you may recall, we had our house re-roofed just before our little babe was born. As part of the work, we requested that the builder sort our our leaking gutter and little bit of rotten wood at the front of the house. He said he'd do it after completing the roof, as a separate contract.
So.... when my Little Darling was a month old and there'd been no sign of any start on the work we phoned our builder. His reponse was, "Sorry, I forgot, I'll get onto it right away". And to be fair, he did start it that weekend by coming around and measuring up for a new bit of wood. A month later there was still no progress, so we phoned again. "There's been a bit of a delay with getting the wood, but it's arrived so so my brother will around to fix it sometime this week". The wood is a fancy shaped bit that had to be specially made so we accepted that excuse for the delay... but, his brother doing the work... The Muppet. Oh dear. We knew then that this wouldn't be the two day job originally promised.
Our son is now six months old. The wood was fitted last month, but there has been no sign of it being painted, nor has the gutter been fixed.
Yesterday we bumped into our builder. He said he was very busy but would come and finish the job as soon as he could. The Muppet wouldn't be finishing it.... because he's sacked The Muppet. The story goes something like this:
Once upon a time there was a Muppet who liked going out partying all night, and often came to work still a little drunk. One day he was working at the front of a tall house using a long ladder. But he's chosen not to fix the ladder to anything. And the ladder fell. Onto a car that was parked next to the tall house. And the car had a sunroof. And then it no longer had a sunroof. And the Muppet said "Oh, it's only a student's car, let's just finish the work on the tall house and walk away". But the Honest Builder said "NO!". And the Honest Builder left a note on the car and later he got a call from the car owner's insurance company and discovered that it was going to cost more to fix the car than they'd be earning from finishing the work on the tall house. And the Honest Builder got very mad with The Muppet and sacked him. The End.
So, now we know the answers to two questions that have been puzzling us: (a) why we're still waiting for the work to be finished and (b) why there's been a car with a smashed sunroof parked outside our house for a fortnight.