I helped some of our owners to clear their garage today as they are about to list the house for sale and needed to tidy up. It turned out we just needed to do two runs with the van and the owners were very pleased by the end of the day. They did admit that we had however done the work in a very French way.
Here's how it went.
10.15 - Arrived at pre-arranged time.
10.16 - A cup of coffee and a catch up as I haven't seen them since last Autumn.
11.15 - Decide it's time to load up the van.
11.40 - Leave to go to the decheterie (refuse tip)
12.05 - Return to house
12.06 - Decide it is time for lunch
12.15 - Carrot Soup, Pate' and cold meats with salad, fruit tarts.
14.00 - Decide it's time to load up the van again.
14.20 - Leave for Decheterie. Won't accept the paint tins.
14.45 - Arrive second decheterie who won't accept paint tins.
15.15 - Arrive third decheterie who thankfully will take paint tins.
15.45 - Return to house.
15.46 - Decide we should have another coffee along with some strawberries and oranges.
16.15 - Declare ourselves well satisfied with the days work.
16.20 - Charged them for just half a days work as to be fair, most of the day was either eating or drinking and the rest pretty much swanning around in the van with the aircon on as it was 25 degrees today.
And that is pretty much why I prefer living here rather then West London!
1 comment:
I had to make a couple of trips to the tip at the weekend and my experience was very much like yours.
Except that... it wasn't.
No coffee, no strawberries, no paté, no oranges. No lunch at all, in fact.
And they accepted the paint tins, telling me to just throw them in with the household waste!
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