You know you’ve spent a lot of money on home improvements and/or repairs when your plumber sends you a thank-you gift!
Sure, it’s not the first time we’ve received a gift from a someone we’ve hired. When we installed a new furnace and hot water tank (simultaneously) at our old house, the HVAC guy sent us a company mug with cookies.
Our realtor also had cookies sent to us after we [finally] closed on the new house.
But I definitely wasn’t expecting anything in this morning’s mail. It was a nice surprise for several reasons:
- After paying for the home improvements, there’s not a lot of money left for cookies and other non-essentials.
- I’m glad the plumbers still want our business after the hell we put them through.
- Before receiving that package, I had no idea what to write about today.
Otherwise, a pretty quiet day. After lugging home crushed stone for the edge of our driveway, hubby decided to order takeout for an early dinner. He got his usual cheese pizza, and I opted for the 4-piece fried chicken dinner (no coleslaw, please), which arrived with –
Four pieces of fried chicken. Period. No fries. No nothing else.
The pizzeria owner was apologetic and compensated by providing a triple order of fries. I’ll be eating fries for a week.
Which is not good for my colitis …
Guess we’d better keep that plumber on redial!
Happy Weekend, Everyone.
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And have a happily improved home.
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Working on it, Marilyn. Working on it.
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But leftover fries aren’t too good, are they?
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They’re not bad when heated in the toaster oven – and I’m not particularly fussy anyway.
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Haha! That was a cute twist there at the end!
We’ve gotten some goodies over the years, but not any actual goodies 😛
Five years later and our realtor sends these little impersonal postcards to us every season. I love them. I liked her and I’m always glad to receive them, to know she’s doing well. I would not be mad if she sent sweets!
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The realtor we had for our first house 20 years ago did even better. She gave us a beautiful knit throw for the living room couch – we still have that!
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Yeah, it looks like the plumbing is going to get a workout, from those fries. That’s a nice gesture from your plumber. I would be wary of eating those cookies, though, if they’re homemade. A plumber coming home from work, and then baking after where he’s had his hands all day, just doesn’t seem appetizing.
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No worry on the quality of the cookies. They were made and delivered by a local gourmet bakery. I would never shop there – the pastries are good but too expensive for us.
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Wow, in all the years I have had people working on things around the house, I have never gotten a box of cookies. I did get my living room painted for almost nothing but I hate to say how much money I have spent on this one contractor. Oh well. Enjoy your fries and cookies in your wonderful new home.
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Thanks, Jane. I think this particular contractor might have sent the gift as sort of an apology for the defective faucet they installed and then had to replace. It was a manufacturing defect, so it wasn’t their fault, but still an inconvenience to us.
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That indeed looks like a tasty thank you from Roy’s, CM. Hey, at least the pizza guy paid back in quads. Most places these days at most say sorry and give you what they messed up about, or a coupon for said value or … heck, I just seeth about it and swear I’ll check my bag at the window very closely next time. Sure.
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Normally, we do check before leaving the restaurant, but we’ve gotten takeout so many time from this place, hubby didn’t think it was necessary this time. Oh well. Live and learn.
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Cookies are great—but a nice, crisp bottle of white works too!
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I’m with you! Especially if it was a huge, expensive, time-consuming and stressful job.
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Question: what am I doing wrong? I have never, (not once!) received cookies from someone I hired…. and now I feel completely unloved.
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I can’t even tell you how much money those plumbers got from us this past year (we replaced EVERY pipe in the house, as well as two sinks and a toilet). The least they can do is send cookies!
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Okay, I feel better now.
😉
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