Can you guess who it was?

Yesterday I went out shopping. I was just going down the road heading for Marks and Spencers when I heard "Are you not working today?" I turned around and it was a fellow co. worker "idiot?". He was wearing his brown christmas cardie with fur trimmed hood, black nylon jogging bottoms and huge white trainers. In fact the very same outfit I last saw him wearing on Thursday when we were completing the shop make over. Can you guess which fellow co. worker this was? If you need another clue he dug into his pocket and pulled out a W H Smith voucher. "Do you think I can still use this?" he asked. He had found it over the christmas break. I can't remember if it was one or two years old. I tootled off to carry on shopping, he went to W H Smith to see if he could still use his voucher.

When we're open the doors unlocked

I would like to inform any customers who follow my blog when the show room is open the door is unlocked!
After a long day yesterday our show room make over is complete. And I think it looks fabulous. contemporary and modern without being too clinical. During the make over customers kept knocking on the door, down the ladder we would get look for the keys and open the door "Are you open?" they enquired. "NO" I mean to say I think a show room without any samples and two scruffy people pasting wall paper and a locked door is a bit of give away that you are not actually open for business.
Yesterday was the last big push to get it all put back together so we could at least have the long weekend to enjoy a break before it's back to normal trading next week, and me and some of my fellow co. workers "idiots?" set to to get it finished. The fellow co. worker "idiot?" who helped on Sunday with the glossing even turned up. I don't think he intended to do much because he was wearing his new christmas cardie with a fur trimmed hood.No one told him that the evening before was spent re-doing most of the glossing he did on Sunday because he had missed lots of areas. I don't think they said anything because on Sunday he told us he was really good at painting and could have done it for a career he just doesn't enjoy doing it. I love listening to this fellow co. worker "idiot?" because according to him he is good at everything and I know different. As the day wore on it all started to take shape and we got to the point where it just needed another vacuam through but I had to pop out. When I got back one of the "idiots?" told me the vacuam cleaner wasn't picking up so I told him to empty it. It turned out he meant on the tools option so I told him there is a two pence stuck in the tube all you have to do is take the tube out and only use the hose. Would he do this? NO he spent the next half an hour trying to remove a two pence that I knew was well lodged and would go no where. I wandered off and did something else. When I came back he told me had fixed the vacuam by swapping parts with another. Good thinking I thought. Until I came to use the vacuam cleaner, when you used the tools option the hose wouldn't stay on the tube at all, so how is this fixed? I thought you can still only use the the tube if you hold really tight on to the hose and tube, so you might as well have not bothered!

Marriage guidance

The decorating of the show room continued in earnest today. This is why I require marriage guidance. Ever since I had a new desk come counter custom made for me I have wanted to put wall paper on the chimney section behind it where we sit. Well yesterday I went and chose the wall paper. This was interesting in itself because boss husband "idiot?" started off telling me I needed eight rolls, then after a re-think he said it was three rolls, so I purchased four rolls to be on the safe side. This afternoon we went down to the show room for what I thought would be a couple of hours to hang the wall paper ready for the rest of the flooring to be laid on Thursday. First drop was pasted and offered up to the wall I was chief holder of wall paper boss husband "idiot?" was brushing down from the top. It was only when he got half way down we noticed the wall paper stopped short of the skirting board by about eighteen inches or so. This was a sign of things to come. We finally got one piece on the wall. The second piece was cut including pattern match. Boss husband "idiot?" said does in reach the skirting? "yes" said I he brushed down from the top. It was about one inch away from the skirting, off to the waste pile went that piece as well. It was only when we tried to hang another piece that we discovered the pattern match was not 26.5cm but was actually 53cm. Off to the waste pile went another piece. After three and a half hours of pasting and arguing we finally got the chimney breast papered. Unfortunately there are two chimney breasts so we will have to do it all again tomorrow!

Complete chaos

The "idiots?" and myself are spending the christmas period re-decorating and re-carpeting our show room. This was supposed to happen last year but some how we didn't get ourselves organised enough to go through with it.This year however we have started already. The Christmas decorations have been taken down and we are disassembling the show room. The plan is as followes we still trade until 12.30 christmas eve hopefully selling lots and lots of roll stock and rugs. Whilst we are doing this the "idiots?" are uplifting the existing show room carpet and doing some prep. work to the floor. On so far unspecified days over the christmas festivities we are going to emulsion the walls gloss the paint work and fit new vinyl walkways and carpet.If there is enough time we are going to wall paper 2 x areas if not we will do this at some unspecified point in January. We will be all decorated and re-carpeted ready to open on January 4th. "we wont get any customers for curtains" says I so they are all in a heap under a desk. Just five minutes ago in comes a customer for curtains you can't win!

This will make you laugh

One of my fellow co. workers ("idiots?") was working with another of the ("idots?") last week. At about 8.40 he phoned boss ("idiot?") to say **** was not at work. This is such an unusual event boss ("idiot?") investigated immediatley. Where was the missing "Idiot?" in the kitchen making a cup of tea. Just because his car wasn't in the car park my fellow co. worker ("idot?") had assumed he wasn't at work!!

Window update

My windows are on the path again
and have been twice this week
I think they might be fixed today
But I'm too afraid to speek

My house is full of men of trade
dashing here and there
But not the men who did the job
They drove me to despair!

Bah humbug

Christmas I hate it. It's the busiest time of year at work and me and the "idiots?" are run ragged. We've all got colds and we are fed up with being nice. Normal humorous blogs will follow once Christmas is organised!!