My friend Ben Irene retired a year or so ago from a large office. They had the same cleaning crew for years, and one of the secretaries asked one of the cleaning ladies if she could help her get her house in order, as her in-laws were coming.
"I just need you to clean out the fridge," she said, "and do the floors. There's a key under the mat." The cleaning lady was happy for the extra job, and set to work. A couple of hours later, the secretary got a call from her.
"I'm all done with the fridge," she said, "but where do you keep the vacuum cleaner bags? I need to change this one."
"But I just put a new one in it!" said Ben Irene's friend. The cleaning lady then asked how to turn on the machine. "It's a foot switch at the bottom," said Ben Irene's friend. "Ma'am," said the cleaning lady, "this is a canister vacuum."
Long silence on the phone.
Next question from Ben Irene's friend was, "What colour is the carpet?"
It turned out that the cleaning lady was in the wrong house!
Ben Irene said that she always wondered what those people thought when they got home and found that somebody had been in their house for the sole purpose of emptying out their refrigerator!
Oh, now that's priceless!
ReplyDeleteToo funny! That would be me & my luck!
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked at the excavation company, we did snow plowing in the winter. (A foreign concept in TX, I know!).
ReplyDeleteWe only did a couple of houses, it was mostly commercial, but one year, the guys plowed the driveway next door to the one they were supposed to be plowing three times. SOMEONE (that would be me) had written down the wrong house number.
Can you imagine how happy those homeowners were, to wake up and find their driveway plowed and salted and the walk sno-blowed?
That's a good one!
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