Firstly, let me say I really like old folks, in fact I plan on becoming one fairly soon myself. I have the contract for a state government dept to do the locksmithing work for the elderly folks on their 'home maintenance program. Most of the oldies are great to deal with, and enjoy a good 'chin wag' and a joke, but some are a real pains in the butt. Nothing is ever done right by ANY tradesman that comes to do work on their house, and they continually whinge and bitch about everything in general. I've had a run of the latter lately. It's always the same sort of complaint, "that lock you put on yesterday won't work, the key won't go in" so go all the way back to find they are trying to open their security screen door with their car keys, or it's "My door won't shut since you put that new deadbolt on last week, you've done something to my door", (locking the deadbolt while the door is OPEN, then trying to shut the door). Had a beauty yesterday, cranky old biddy phones and says that the lock I put on a few months ago, has not worked from day one, and she wants a refund. I drive 30klms back out to her house to sort out the problem, only to find that a green tree frog had crawled into the striker hole and died, damn thing had gone as hard as a lump of wood, so the latch wouldn't engage. I mean 'really', ........ how do I cope and stay soooo young ?
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20 years ago