Builders called "Arthur"

[sarah_louise]

I have found from experience (plenty) that any tradesman you let into your house called Arthur will always cause more trouble for you than they repair. I am not alone am I ?

They always have cement caked radios mis-tuned and run at full volume, empty their bowels in your toilet not theirs, ruin your carpets with oily boots, break something which is out of stock and need your full attention making cups of tea all day.

[BobbyLove01]

why dont you ask him to leave as he is a p*** taker

[kepla]

As far as I understand it, the whole point of employing a tradesman is for the amusement they create with their mis-tuned radios, oily boots and insatiable demands for cups of tea. Judging by results, they are obviously NOT employed to do much work connected with their 'trade'. Unfortunately, some poor souls don't realise this and completely fail to be amused by the radios, boots and cups of tea. It seems that they actually expect to get some usefull work out of them. It seems that most tradesmen's names begin with letters near the beginning of the alphabet rather than the end - A, B, C, & D etc rather than W, X, Y & Z. Thus we are far more likely to encounter Arthur, Brian, Colin or Dave than Wyvern, Xerces, Yale or Zebedee. I have no doubt that there is a connection so, if you were to emply a tradesman called Zebedee or Zachary then you would find the work to be of a high standard and low cost. Alternatively . . . . . . . If you want a job doing properly then do it yourself !

[stanleyman]

Thank God my name is Terry! I'm not a builder as such but I do oil fired heating, plumbing, electrics and marine engineering so might have oil on my soles but I respect peoples homes and use dust sheets. Although I have to say the dust sheet is often to protect me from the home!

I don't have a radio and only accept tea when it is offered in preference to my flask. I only use the loo if I have to. I appear to be sadly lacking in entertainment value which is probably why the customer often goes out and leaves me to it. Many of my regular customers will just leave a key for me and I let myself in. I rather like the name Zebedee.

[jas1002]

wow. I just had an extention built. The builder was called colin and the plumer called brian.