Received a terse text from her husband a short while ago querying why I have not yet put the new fence panels in & shouldn't I have waited until I had the new panels before I removed the old one.
(This is from a diy useless fella who doesn't even know the right way round of a screwdriver - I kid you not)
Followed shortly after by another apologetic text - saying his wife had just told him off for the tone of his text.
Rang them back on landline - his mobile 'unavailable'.
His wife answered and said I have told him off for his rude text - speak to him yourself and passed the phone over to him.
I started off by saying I hoped his bedside manner as a GP was better than his attitude in his text, proceeding to tell him the reasons for taking the fence panel down was to :-
a). assess what other work was needed before being able to put 2 new panels in.
b). do the work before fitting new panels
c). the new work consisted of :-
i). mortaring the large holes in the render at the semidetatched house join point.
ii). mortar the missing pointing brick joints under render area
iii). repair rotten wood in THEIR adjoining fence link to a brick outhouse and creosote it.
iv). paint render next day when render mortar set to match existing masonry paint.
.................. and now ready to fit panels - which being specials re width requirement for some reason taking longer than promised for delivery.
He went a bit sheepish then when he realised he'd shot off at a tangent without remotely realising what had gone on in the background. His wife did - and told him so when she told him off for firing off his text.
Behaving just like she describes him - arrogant, gets the wrong end of the stick everytime, then has to climb down and apologise. In a word - a cnut!
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