I was walking a few miles on my treadmill tonight watching a new detective series. Well, when the cops stop a service van it turns out to be a gay serial killer who is a window washer. As if people didn’t already have their stereotypes about us!
Here’s a couple of screen shots from the movie. Lol
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Ok, I’m confused.
Is the “gay serial killer”
And when you say “stereotypes about us”…
The answer to your question is in the sentence structure.
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I saw that episode. Made me laugh!
Yeah, so I called the phone number on the van and Doug MacDonald answered. Shrugs
NotThatThere’sAnythingWRONGWithThat.
Wait.
…I guess there kind of IS, in this case.
[MENTION=1736]JfromtheD[/MENTION] you should save this pic
Omg I didn’t realize everyone stereotyped us as all being gay.
They don’t. The most prevalent stereotype is that we have no sense of humor…
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That’s only because we don’t laugh when passersby tell us:
1/. "you missed a spot"
2/. "When you’re done you can do the windows on my truck over there"
3/. “When you’re done you can come to my house”.
Apparently these are really funny comments because they always completely crack themselves up. I guess we window cleaners just have no sense of humor.
BTW, at the risk of hijacking this thread, I would be interested to see what everybody’s best come back is for these comments. When people tell me I can come to their house next I usually offer to give them a business card, and they back down pretty quickly.
Or is this just a Midwest problem…???
1- Job security!
2- Absolutuly. That’ll be $15 
3- Sure! I’m on work release, so I’ll have to run it by the warden, but I don’t see a problem.
I get those “funny” and “original” lines all the time. I just try to laugh along with them and say something like “get in line” or “take a ticket”. Sometimes people appear to be truly interested and in that case I may actually pursue it a bit.
Alex, that was classic! #3 had me laughing out loud. If you don’t mind, I’m going to steal that one. My #2 is pretty similar, except I start at $75. I’ve considered telling people that we can’t do windshields because we don’t have any curved squeegees.
Dan, I have actually gotten work from a conversation that began with a smart alec comment, so I try to be discerning with my sarcasm.
Apparently, Alex has no such qualms! 
Ha! I don’t actually say that last one. It’d be funny, though. I wait until I’ve built rapport with a customer before joking like that
The big 3.
I try to hand them a towel.
Sure, it’s $50.
Sure, we do residential. Here’s my card.
