F'n tradies. Have spent a week trying to get a plumber to come and fit an outside tap, the job's worth about 100 pounds. In answer to my calls, I've had:

Can't do it, I'm on holidays
I'll come around and have a look tomorrow (never came)
I'll come around and have a look tomorrow (came, said he's come back the next day to do the job, never came)
I'll come and do it this Saturday at 12 o'clock (rang at 1pm Saturday, said he had a family emergency and would come on Monday. Came on Monday, said he'd be back at 9am Tuesday to do the job. His last words "I won't let you down". Never came back.

I'm in the UK, but I've had the same sort of thing in Australia as well.

IF THEY DON'T WANT THE JOB WHY DON'T THEY JUST BLOODY SAY SO? I'm going to give the next plumber I'm face to face with a bloody good punch in the nose - sort of a pre-emptive strike.

Too small a job for most plumbers, not worth their time (which is dumb granted but that's how they look at it). Look on noticeboards in library/supermarkets etc for handyman type person.

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Delta India Yankee.

Well I would. I'm guessing SoS or Mr SoS don't want to.

You need Mr BEVS

Scouse doesn't have the right tools. The back of the kitchen cupboard has to be drilled for the pipe, and then our solid brick wall has to be drilled from the outside so the brick won't blow out into a flippin' big hole, and there are pipes and t-junctions and all stuff like that involved

By the way, before Scouse worked as a pipefitting on offshore rigs, he trained as a plumber

My previous comment about punching plumbers excluded plumbers from the UK who now live in NZ. Obviously.

You sound very handy Moneypenny! You do realize that I'm talking about a proper tap don't you, not one of those stick on things

Well I'm a tradie & I feel your pain. My dad has spent ages trying to get someone to quote him for stripping out a bathroom and turning it into a wet room. It's got to the stage now where I get a free holiday back there to do the job.

Well all I can say is, the UK economy must be very healthy because all the tradies are obviously flat out!

But seriously.....a tap's a small job but you'd think a job like your dad's would be well worth doing!

In return for the free holiday, I think it would be a nice gesture for you to only charge him mate's rates

My mum promised free board & lodge with my favourite home cooked meals. That's tempting enough without the free flights.........
How about ringing a plumber regarding a bathroom reno and asking him to do the tap whilst he's there?

People eating biscuits at their desks. What the ****!!!!!

People eating at public / shared computer labs and getting the keyboards/mice all nasty.

And, clients bringing me their PC or mobile to fix something and it is covered in grime. Eugh...

Hipsters
Other peoples' kids
Rudeness
People not recognizing when you're trying to help them
Feminists
People without a developed sense of humour
People with no empathy
Yappy dogs
Hoons
Most people under 25
People who tolerate almost everything in life, but the fact that you may have a different point of view to them sends them over the edge
Technology
Managers who have no idea
The storeman I met on Thursday
Shit drivers
Tail gaters
People who pre-empt traffic lights
People behind me in a queue that fidget and keep knocking me
People who just say 'good' when ased how they are and don'd reciprocate
Carreer politicians

That's pretty much it, other than the above I'm a pretty chilled out individual

People who say "on route" when they're going some where. Only a tiny issue in the grand scheme of things but still, it makes people look so so stoopid