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ICE

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The job was small and H/O permitted. Five windows were changed and two were next to doors, front and rear. Both of those windows are required to be safety glazing and they aren't.

When I got there, the lady was all smiles and handed me a bottle of water. When I started writing she positioned herself over my shoulder {you've seen my picture, it's not that hard to do} and began shrieking about the windows being special ordered and expensive.

Too bad I didn't get a video for Brudgers because the woman was dancing a jig or stomping on bugs, I'm not sure which. And speaking of witch, she turned into one. I thought one of her eyeballs was gonna be rolling across the floor any minute.

So there she is screaming at me about waiting six weeks for $800 worth of windows she can't return and she finished with "My day couldn't be any worse".

That was too big an opportunity to pass up so I said "Well mine could". "And hows that" she screams. I said "You could be standing in my kitchen when I get home tonight".

I know that I shouldn't do stuff like that but hey, I pay a lot in union dues and I intend to get my money's worth.
 
JBI said:
That's some pretty thin ICE you're skating on old buddy. Careful... LMAO
Hey JD,

Glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humor. Me neither. So I fall through now and then but if it's funny enough that the boss can't keep a straight face while he chews me out, well we go to lunch and trade stories.
 
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I appreciate your sense of humor, ICE, but your story reminds me of the more than one time I got in official trouble for trying to make jokes, trying to be human, trying not to be stiff and official.

After enough complaints and scoldings/reprimands I am much more likely to just bite my lip, grit my teeth, grin, and bear it.
 
jim baird said:
I appreciate your sense of humor, ICE, but your story reminds me of the more than one time I got in official trouble for trying to make jokes, trying to be human, trying not to be stiff and official.After enough complaints and scoldings/reprimands I am much more likely to just bite my lip, grit my teeth, grin, and bear it.
I wasn't trying to be funny when I did it. Suggesting that a tiger bite his lip is cruel and when I grin they take off running.
 
Professional....Yea that's it......I have so much fun when they show me their room of private stach (by state law no one is supose to enter...except me) and some of the things that roll off my tongue cracks me up. Got to have fun some times as an enforcer :)
 
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