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Oh god lady left message looks like I got this one. Have to think how much I really wanna earn my money if nothing comes in looks like I will be entering the Twilight Zone.

Sex calls .... the only problem is the ones that wanted it I did not want it with.... but I try not to mix that up with work although when I was younger I did discount a job for a stripper and her lover/girlfriend for "airbalancing" their bed with them.

One for the commercial guys

Worked in a bar last week. Across the top of the inside entrance, on the bottom of the star of Texas, and across the wall, numerous 666's were displayed. This was mid-afternoon with no customers there. To top it off the dejays were playing satanical rock songs. Some lyrics, " You will sacrifice yourself, I will take you under, You have no will". I told the dispatcher the next morning that she could run her calls when they involved "devil worship".

You guys ever run into sex on the call?
I have had some experiences.
(this happened to me when I was younger and lighter)
One time I was cleaning a plugged drain line and had my head burried in the cabinet, when I backed out of the closet, I backed right onto an old lady with her bath robe undone, man she had to be two inches behind me. AFTER TURNING AROUND AND SEEING A VERY OLD BODY.....I screamed oh my God! she got real embarrassed and said she just stepped out of the shower and forgot her robe was open. Man I cleaned that drain checked for freon, then shot out of there like an over pressured system!

Another time this younger but still old lady tells me she is having a problem keeping it cool in her bedroom, asks if I can check the air flow, she has all her bra's and panties spread out all across the bed, then I hear a bump at the bedroom window, when I walk over to check there is this guy next door bee-lining-it back to his house. I tell HER, I think this guy was peeping, she says she knows he does it all the time. I go OK, there is no airflow problem and I am getting a good supply temp. Before leaving I check for proper charge and the old dude who was peeping comes over and tells me how lose the lady is and I should make a move!
Man I beat it out of there as well.
Has this happened to anyone else?

[Edited by secorp on 06-10-2004 at 01:15 PM]

Originally posted by usaf hvac retired
I did a no heat call last winter and found the gas valve in the off position. When I showed the home owner, he got all mad and started cursing his resident "ghost". He swore that the lights, stereo and water often turn on and off by themselves. That didnt bother him, but he was mad because it was the first time that the "ghost" had actually cost him money.

Went to look at a house to give a bid at replacing the furnance. It was an old house up on the side of a mountain. During the course of the conversation the guy tells me about how his brother got struck and killed by lightning right were I was standing in the kitchen door.

Then he proceeds to tell me that at night the dead brother comes back to the kitchen . The dead guy drops his boots on the kitchen floor and this wakes up the living brother. Then he tells me, "I just yell down to him--'go away you son-of-a bitch, you are dead."

I bid that job really HIGH and I didn't get it. The home owner was spooky but not stupid.

[Edited by benncool on 06-10-2004 at 01:05 PM]

Hope he didnt come back the next week for a wood chipper!

And this is precisely why I thank heavn I don't do residental

If you deal with the public long enough you run into some doozies.

I worked the front counter of a tool rental store.

A coworker rents a chain saw to a guy on Saturday morning. Nothing out of the ordinary.

As were are closing that evening, the guy rolls up with the saw. The chain has fallen off and he wants us to put it back on.

He's acting belligerant, erratic and is wearing his golf shoes.

He senses me looking at the golf shoes and tells me he's aerating his lawn while trimming trees.

We explain that we can't fix the saw as the mechanic has left for the day. He goes ape$#!t.

He is eventually dragged into the car by his female companion and they leave.

He wanders in Monday morning alone, meek as a mouse and settles up his bill.

Intoxicated using a chain saw. If he sawed a leg off we'd have been sued.

Darwin at it's finest.

Jim

It all comes down to odds. If you look at the general population, x number of them are murderers, schizophrenics, drug addicts, etc., so odds are you'll encounter them. But I'd much rather run into them somewhere else than in their homes

You often have to be able to read people very well. I've met people who were joking with a very deadpan look, which I figured out. THEN, there are those you think are joking and then realize they're not, then you go Whoa! Let me outa here!!

I did a no heat call last winter and found the gas valve in the off position. When I showed the home owner, he got all mad and started cursing his resident "ghost". He swore that the lights, stereo and water often turn on and off by themselves. That didnt bother him, but he was mad because it was the first time that the "ghost" had actually cost him money.

I don't know sometimes I get it is so bizarre I start thinking maybe it's me that missing the marbles but now that I think about Dice's 9mm thread makes sense. I mean I go to people's houses that I don't know from a hole in the wall. Who knows when the next Dahmer gonna need his ac fixed (or the walk-in freezer in the cellar where he keeps the body parts).

nice thread Midhvac I guess there really is a portal. I am wondering though if the parrot talks then technically it's not really like she is hearing voices.....LOL

I got beeped once at three A.M. when I was on call. The lady told me her sister had allergies and her A/C was not running.

I asked her to look at the t-stat to see if the display was reading. She said "yes it says 72 degrees". So I ask her if she could tell me what it was set at. She said "73".

I had one a couple days ago, tstat making buzzing noise.
It was the doorbell making noise mounted on wall above the tstat.

Re: Midhvac

Originally posted by oil lp man
What ever happened with that customer?

If you mean the one with the back scratched Labrador, I just got a call from the electrician today, that he'd finished running the new electric to the outside unit. He called me because she asked him if I was done with "the freon". I told him "Oh yeah, I uh don't need to do anything else over there for a while."

The one with the parrot is probably in an institution by now. Last I heard of her, she was living with her "boyfriend" who was about 75 years old. She had him call me about a "noisy a/c" at his house. It turned out she was hearing the wheel of the electric meter turning on the wall outside the bedroom...... sigh.....

I can't tell you how elated I was to see this thread by humid. See!! It's not just me!!!!

Had a customer once that cut the high voltage wire to his a/h in the attic with a shovel, he was up there doing battle with the "damn kids in my attic"... he handed me the disconnect pull out when I walked through the door.

Midhvac

What ever happened with that customer?

Something tells me if ya get that job you are gonna earn your dough.....and then some.

Yes. I enter that portal to another dimension frequently:

http://hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthread....6&pagenumber=2

http://hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthread.php?threadid=52288

[Edited by midhvac on 06-09-2004 at 08:25 PM]

hhhmmm did a bid on a job complete install in an existing home with no a/c. Bid a little lower than I wanted too I know I must have came in pretty good cause when I gave the husband the price he said "That includes everything?" usually my first clue I underpriced myself.Anyway he said ok i will get back to you this was last Saturday. His wife calls leaves a message today and it was like 95 here so i am figuring they broke down and were deciding to get the job done instead she is rambling about her thumb how she injured it and takes pain medication for it and she is in a lot of pain now she has go to take more medication. Bye. That was the whole message no mention of the job, did not ask for me to call back, did not say she had any questions.

I have not called them back yet ... I got the message late today. Maybe i should wait till next time she's loaded up on meds and call her back and let her know I will be right over for the deposit on the job..lol!

This is too wierd though anybody ever get these types .. I am actually get that sixth sense of knowing its time to walk away. First mistake price too low Second mistake this lady is wacked. why should I hang in there for the third.

Anybody got experience with dealing with customers from an alternate reality?

[Edited by thehumid1 on 06-09-2004 at 08:13 PM]