Most annoying part in doing this business.

[Clean County]

With our powerwashing season just a month or so away up here in the northeast (we had 8" of snow yesterday) I was thinking what annoyes me the most about doing this business is not the mosquito's even though they are a pain in the *** but far and away for me is the YELLOW JACKET bees. They are vicious and nasty and when they bite they hurt. I seem to get bit at least once a year and my reaction to there bites is getting worse. 2 of the last 3 years I ended up going to the emergency room because of those suckers. Ive been bitten anywhere from my hands, legs and even inside my ear once. That hurt. The worst one was last year when a yellow jacket went into my shirt and bit me in the armpit.Aside from the immense pain I was in my arm and part of my chest swelled up like a balloon. Once again off to the hospital. Yellow jackets like to hang out by wood and if they feel threatened they will attack unprovoked. There's been times when I'm powerwashing a house and I'm near the top rung on my 28' ladder and I spot them watching me with there heads going back and forth. usually I try to leave them alone but if I feel threatened I have no problem blasting them with 3000psi of water. When I'm staining a house or deck for that matter I try to not bother them at all. I stain they watch. Ive been bitten thru my gloves while staining alsnce I was bit by 4 yellow jackets in one shot. Hopefully I don't get bit this year or have any nightmares about them either. What are other annoying parts of this business that you people experienced? -John-

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[Ken @ Pro-Coat]

My biggest problem:

"The sidewalk superintendants, "everybody wants to be a "Chief".

Ken

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[Dan S]

ya know what really is annoying??

working your butt of trying to get all your work done and you dont even bother to wipe the frozen snot off your upper lip...

yeah that's right i said SNOT....frozen snot to boot.
just the other day i had a " snotcicel" hangin from my upper lip and the stuck to the hair of my face.....
AND THEN>>>>>>>>>the fleet manager drove up, once again with his family ,kid's in the back seat laughing and pointing....and i had no clue what they were giggleing about.....i thought maybe my zipper was down " again" ...so i slowly drop my hand and NOPE zipper alright ....huh .......
the wife of the manager sticks her hand out the window i thought now why would she want me to shake her hand...... but that;s not what she wanted ..she wanted to hand me a " SNOT RAG"......
AAAAAAhhhhh!!!!!!!!! how gross i thought no wonder those kids were laughing at me....the SNOT RAG had no use however all i had to do was break it off...i thought about handing it to the kids in the back .
i fought off that desire ........
so to the question at hand this is what i find the most annoying about this business............
you could be working all day even weeks and no -body shows up, but get a frozen boogie and it's like a freacken magnet.
sorry if i made any body lose there lunch......

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Washing a truck can be challenging.Every truck in a fleet may require different treatment.Adapt the washing process to the challenges that you are dealing with.

[This message has been edited by Dan S (edited February 06, 2001).]

 

[Ron Musgraves]

Clean County PW & pest control?

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[Larry L.]

<FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT COLOR="DarkGreen">To me it is people walking up and wanting their truck or trucks washed on Sat. or Sunday when you have both days booked already when you've told them all to call a day or two ahead of time,,,whew,,,dat was a mouth full.


Hey Dan you tellem

dat was good still lmaorotf.Whats bad is two of them suckes in a V form and a truck driver telling ya he don't want know acid on his truck but tells you to wash it like you always do.Then says,do you think you can wash it by the time snot starts to thaw I don't want my doors to feeze shut,then laughs..like you said dat stuff is a like a Freacken Magnet,,

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