Well there's a first for everything but today and up to me writing this I am being accused by a customer of stealing cash.
Serves me right coz when I turned up to the job I should have turned away-really run down Caribbean takeaway.
so he asks me to cap a gas pipe. Simple..I ask him where's the gas meter? He takes me down to some basement makeshift bedroom where the meters on the wall. Fine..I do my tests and calls good(throughout this he's standing right behind me)
I go upstairs..cap the gas pipe. Then go back down to do my spillage tests. All fine..so I turn round and he's there in the corner and I jumped coz didn't know he was there..but strange.
so I charged him..he paid cash and I left..sweet right?
about an hour later I see 5 missed calls from him. Phones back and he says that he's missing some money which was on his gas meter! I'm stunned and explain to him that I saw no cash there and have no idea. He then says to me c'mon mate we all make mistakes just drop it back here. I again try to calmly explain that I did not take it, see it and having been a local plumber for 15 years in the area would not even think of it. But he seems oblivious to what I'm saying and I start to get annoyed and hang up.
so he's just called me before I'm writing this saying I thought you were coming down here with my money. I'm livid now and start asking him why of all places would you leave your money on gas meter? You were behind me the whole time, how can you be so sure it was me. It's like talking to a robot he starts upping it to full blow 'I know you took it'!
so I tell him don't call me again and told him to call the police. He seemed hesitant to do that so I said again call the police (swearword swearword!)
so so have another missed call from him. What could this guys angle be? What should I do..talk to police myself? I tell you it's strange. I just can't believe this guys for real and really has lost sum cash because he can't answer any of my questions. What would you guys do?
Serves me right coz when I turned up to the job I should have turned away-really run down Caribbean takeaway.
so he asks me to cap a gas pipe. Simple..I ask him where's the gas meter? He takes me down to some basement makeshift bedroom where the meters on the wall. Fine..I do my tests and calls good(throughout this he's standing right behind me)
I go upstairs..cap the gas pipe. Then go back down to do my spillage tests. All fine..so I turn round and he's there in the corner and I jumped coz didn't know he was there..but strange.
so I charged him..he paid cash and I left..sweet right?
about an hour later I see 5 missed calls from him. Phones back and he says that he's missing some money which was on his gas meter! I'm stunned and explain to him that I saw no cash there and have no idea. He then says to me c'mon mate we all make mistakes just drop it back here. I again try to calmly explain that I did not take it, see it and having been a local plumber for 15 years in the area would not even think of it. But he seems oblivious to what I'm saying and I start to get annoyed and hang up.
so he's just called me before I'm writing this saying I thought you were coming down here with my money. I'm livid now and start asking him why of all places would you leave your money on gas meter? You were behind me the whole time, how can you be so sure it was me. It's like talking to a robot he starts upping it to full blow 'I know you took it'!
so I tell him don't call me again and told him to call the police. He seemed hesitant to do that so I said again call the police (swearword swearword!)
so so have another missed call from him. What could this guys angle be? What should I do..talk to police myself? I tell you it's strange. I just can't believe this guys for real and really has lost sum cash because he can't answer any of my questions. What would you guys do?
