I'm at home today as we're having our front door replaced. It's quite a big job for reasons to do with the style of building etc, and involves one builder and one apprentice here for the day - they appeared at about 8am, have been here since.
I've never dealt with English builders before (been here ages, but originally from SA). I took the stereotype about builders and tea literally - offered them tea (with cookies) when they arrived, and stuck my head out every few hours to ask if they wanted a refill. (Also told them to help themselves, but got looks from them.) At lunch I ordered them a pizza - that is, I ordered one for myself since it's not the best environment to be cooking in, and paid another £3 for a two pizza "deal". They were grateful and ate happily.
DP has just come home and thinks I'm insane to treat them like this - one drink is enough out of courtesy and they can sort themselves out after.
My feeling is: they're working hard, they're in my home, it's no skin off my nose and a nice way to say thank you to two blokes who are working hard? What do others reckon?
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Londonista123 · 30/09/2015 15:56
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