Progress???

[journeyman Mick]

When looking in the local papers for tradespeople I automatically rule out anyone who just provides a mobile phone number and no landline.

Well isn't that a coincidence, I only give out my mobile in the small town I live in because:
a) My wife hates it when people ring up after hours and want to talk shop :mad:
b) I figure that if people are too tight to ring me on the mobile then they're too tight to pay tradesman's rates (this town is full of arty hippy types who want really fiddly, unusual jobs done with second hand materials to repair their crooked owner built shacks and who want to pay next to nothing or barter with vegies and massages :eek: )
Still get too many calls anyway!

Mick
Excuse me, I've got to go now, that's my phone I can hear........

[jackiew]

I didn't say I won't ring the mobile mick ( ok ... 99% of the time I ring the land line ).

I just like to know that they do actually have a home base.

I can quite appreciate that tradespeople's wives don't like fielding the calls ....and I'm sure that there are lots of people who like to ring at what most reasonable people would consider an unreasonable time.

As a cyclist / motorcyclist / pedestrian I get somewhat alarmed by the number of tradespeople I see driving along with one hand on the wheel desperately scrabbling through their appointment book on the seat beside them. I'm really loth to ring someone who might either be up a ladder or negotiating a roundabout and be answering their phone.

[silentC]

I'm really loth to ring someone who might either be up a ladder or negotiating a roundabout and be answering their phone.

Ha ha ha ha That's the best laugh I've had all day A tradesman who answers his phone?

[Termite]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Found out a few things about the new toy. It also records voice.
So yesterday when an over-officious Mr Plod pulled me over and, before starting into me with a lot of b******t, informed me that he was recording everything said, I simply smiled and took his photo. After his explosion, with a lot of swearing, about that, and a further 5 minutes of garbage, he was about to start writing a ticket for a non existent offence when I politely informed him that I had recorded the whole conversation also.
Well he did a complete about face, backed down and said he'd let me off with a warning.(For something he'd dreamed up anyway)
I'm starting to like this new technology after all.
But I dont think it will work if I realy am in the wrong.