Food and Beverages From Customers...

[Beast12]

Well, it happens all the time:

You are working at a property and a little old lady pokes her head out the door: "Would you guys like something to drink?"

I usually say SURE. Then out she comes a few minutes later with some coffee that usually tastes like battery acid. So, what do you do? I take a sip or two and kind of tip it a bit a pour some out. Do that a few times until it is gone.

The other day we went to a job and had a customer offer us SALTY CHEESE? What the....?!?! I passed on that.

About 6 weeks ago we went to a customers house. I get there and find out the homeowners is one of my teachers I had from time to time in elementary school. She is Dutch. So, morning break comes and she asks us if we would like some snacks. Sure that would be great. I forget what she brought out but I actually ate it. Then, just before lunch she comes out and asks us if we would like some pizza for lunch. Heck ya! So, when we stop for lunch she invites us in and proceeds to feed us pizza, yogurt, granola bars, Gatorade, juice and fruit! What a nice lady. I think she said she is going to call us back in the fall to do more work. I won't pack a lunch that day.

So, give me your best and worst "Food and Beverage" stories.

-Matt

 

[lees trees]

had a old man with a lot of goop in his bad eye bring me a water in a dirty goopy glass. not for sure the glass was goopy but couldn't take the chance.

 

[RDT]

Thats dam funny lees trees.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[John464]

best - steak , filet minon cooked on outdoor barbecue but ate inside at their dinner table along with homemade sundried tomatoes, and was sent home with homemade sausage and a bottle of homemade wine. Thanks Nicky!

worst - expired cake stale and water in a dirty glass with floaters

 

[Highclimber OR]

Pork chops and all the fix ins was the best, the hose is about as bad as it gets unless you are in the middle of nowhere and there is no hose. Water is water.

 

[okietreedude1]

had a lady one insist on giving us a pepsi (it was very hot and we denied as we had water w/ us), so we gave in. she goes inside and returns w/ DIET pepsi. [insert puking smiley here] Ive actually had that happen a few times, customer offers drink, returns w/ something diet. I dont do diet soda.

 

[OTG BOSTON]

I am shocked at the amount of times I have been/am offered beer while working

 

[frashdog]

Love crushing beers with customers at the end of the day, two drink max.

How's a big glass of milk handed to you in the middle of a sweaty day.

 

[Adkpk]

Had a customer that came out every time, never missed, with an ice cold can of Olympia beer. Her dog bit me about 20 different times I'd say. I remember once she had to run out to get a six pack, I knew it was the end of an era. She moved a year later.

 

[woodchux]

One day you guys are gonna eat a roofy, and end up locked in someones dungeon.

I always pass on the offerings.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I cannot say what was the best, but I've had bar-b-q in the inner city, and hot soup on cold days in the exurbs. I'd say the blue collar people treat you better then those with more, they know what a days work is like and appreciate it when people work hard for them. The upper crust expect it from you.

 

[Adkpk]

I'd say the blue collar people treat you better then those with more, they know what a days work is like and appreciate it when people work hard for them. The upper crust expect it from you.

And how. Rich people suck.


Except for Lakeside of course.

 

[Sunrise Guy]

Had this lonely, chubby gal offer me a beer after I cleared her roof. She was already breathing hard when she asked me in, so I figured what was to follow would certainly po my gf. I declined. Lots of folks offer water and pop, but we're self-contained, so we always decline. Did accept a beer, once, after a long, hot, sweaty take-down. I was so tired and hungry that the lone beer spaced me out in a second. I don't remember much about packing up my gear, but I stayed in the client's yard for an hour afterwards to come down, before driving home. Now that I think about it, I actually asked a client for a pb&j sandwich. I was feeling so hungry that I couldn't think straight. She brought out two huge sandwiches on bakery bread, a bag of chips and an iced down bottle of Gatorade. Sweet---Talk about hitting the spot!

 

[treeman82]

I don't know where to start on this subject.

Let me think... I guess I'll stick with this calendar year????

Last winter... guaranteed breakfast / lunch / dinner at this house (old school Italian couple) Lunch for 2 days out of 3 was; home-made sausage, meatballs, ziti, bread from arthur ave. The third day "Kitchen's closed. I'm making cookies." that day I actually had to go to a deli But I came back to fresh pizells and a 2 lb bag of biscotti which were AMAZING.

Last winter... Up a BIG sugar maple, with a bunch of old Italian guys on the ground. "Matt, come on down for lunch, the moose is ready." They grilled some moose steaks and we all sat inside eating that, and some other stuff that I don't remember... shooting the ????... the old Italian guys had a few gallon jugs of wine floating around (I didn't have any). I was over there yesterday to look at something else, the guy asked if I wanted to stick around for lunch, they were gonna cook up a rabbit. I said no thank you.

A few weeks ago... working for a maintenance customer, home made brashole? meatballs, ziti, sausage, bread. Had steak there a few weeks prior to that.

Last week at the prior customer's daughter's house... go for weekly maintenance (she's a friend of mine) up on the back deck is a cooler filled with cold bottles of water, a muffin, and a cup of cold grapes. A few weeks prior to that was bottles of water, 1/2 of a watermelon all cut up, a container of yogurt, and a donut I didn't know what to do with everything.

Hmmm... have another one, every time I go there she either orders in (which sucks) or she cooks me something. I prefer when she cooks... another old school Italian. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Ground a BIG oak stump the other day... ground a little bit, sat down with the wife and her friends for sandwiches, ground a little more, came back for cake and cookies, ground a little more and left.

Worked for these old Italian guys in April??? one guy is starting to go senile, so when the group sent him out with a LIST of what to get, it came back a bit screwed up.

Worked for a lesbian couple about a month ago? One comes out with an offer of lunch. TERRIBLE. They'd had a party (gay and lesbian party) 2 days prior to my working there, and wanted to give us the leftovers. NEVER again. I had problems just looking at the sausage that was in my pasta dish... couldn't bring myself to eat it.

A couple of other ladies I worked for recently... one brought out cold waters and gatorades. Another lady said to just help myself to whatever was in the downstairs fridge. I go down there; beer, iced tea, soda, and G-d only knows what else.

Not much worth mentioning besides those to the best of my recollection. Some pizza here and there, deli stuff... oh, one guy I already listed... he and his wife dragged me with them one morning for breakfast at the diner.

On another note though, I truly love working for diabetics. I can eat all the candy, cake, and other sweets that inevitably find their way into those houses. So when I come by... "Matt, you take this home with you." COUNTLESS boxes of candies, chocolates, cakes, etc. etc.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Pork chops and all the fix ins was the best, the hose is about as bad as it gets unless you are in the middle of nowhere and there is no hose. Water is water.

Don't you flush the hose?

The taste goes away almost entirely if its run for a half minute.

As of last June, I started carrying bottled water from Costco in my truck. But I usually crack one open when I'm done.

Hose is usually fine.

___________

Never had a bad snack experience yet. Usually high-grade coffee, or they give me a choice of drinks. Occassional sandwiches.

If its a beer, wine or Martinni, its only one, and it has to be at the end of the day.

 

[sloth9669]

non tree work

I work for verizon...so my stories come from that not my tree work days.

Best...some lil old lady ( the Cus mom ) about 80 full italian making some over sized golf ball thing made of sticky rice filled with a lil cheez and dab of sauce. Then rolled in breadcrumbs and fried.....yea i had 3

Beer....all the time they ask always declining not loosing my job for a can of naddy light with some guy i dont know.

Weed....yes been offered to go back and smoke it up...retards

Worst food.... non...i have and idea of when to say no...the cat smell...dishes half way up the wall and the cockroaches running around the house...i tend to say no thanx.

 

[Adkpk]

Weed....yes been offered to go back and smoke it up...retards

:hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[TreeWizard]

I have a friend that was a foreman in a factory. His department was 85% female and when someone came up with a new dish, they would bring it in for him to try before they fed it to their husbands. He never knew until he quit that he was the test subject for all those meals.

 

[SilentElk]

Once did some work for some nice oriental people. He strong insisted the next day when I was back finishing the job, his wife would make lunch. She made something not sure what but it was good! If thats what dog taste like I need to go the kennel.

Best stories of being offered stuff are from when I delievered pizza when I was 18. You could probably get stoned every night, 1/2 drunk and often enough have a girl wanting you stop by and see her when you get off work. Weekends were the best time to work. Good times.

 

[tree md]

Did a job for a guy onetime who owned a chain of upper scale steak houses. He paid me mostly cash and $300 in gift certificates. I ate steak for a month.

Also had a lady buy me and my whole crew burgers and invited us in to eat at her table. She was pretty cool until she brought me up into her bedroom and asked me if I could go out the window and get a branch off of her roof. She was married so I told her I would have one of my guys get it from outside.

Have had several offer beer. If the job is done and it's the end of the day I sometimes except their offer.