AIBU to think it's normal and polite to offer servicemen a drink?

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We had the gas man round yesterday to do a boiler check. I offered him a drink and he gratefully accepted a coffee.

Dh saw the cup on the drying rack and asked if had guests round. Told him no it was the gasman and he looked confused.

I've always thought you offer them a drink. He thinks they are there to do a job and that drinks are not part of it

Yes? No?

I was sat there running through words..

I thought plumber/builder/gas man was too long, maintenance men didn't sound quite right and service men kept coming up

Couldn't for the life of me remember tradesman

If staying longer than 5 mins I always offer some form of drink and tell them if they need the loo, to just go.

I always make people in my home drinks. I even offered to make the crew working on my building ( when I was in flats) drinks...all 10 of them. 12 flats I was the only one that offered.
Dd use to take over 'the tea run' when she got home from school - we missed them when they finished.

Yes, always. Mr Thyme hsedto be an electrician and often came home with tales of tight people who wouldn't offer him a single brew, sometimes he was there 3 or 4 hours!

*used to, damn my fat fingers

Of course you offer them a drink.

I offer everyone a drink including the postie if it's hot and I think he might like a quick cold drink.

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BTW it's polite to offer servicemen AND servicewomen drinks

Of course

I've yet to have trades woman to the house but she would get the exact same offer

YNBU. I always offer them a hot or cold drink. It's just basic courtesy. It's very rare they say yes though

Has anyone suggested that you repost this in relationships yet

Not yet. I was waiting to hear the baying crys of LTB at one point

YANBU - my mum used to make a whole group of tradesmen a hot lunch most days when they were renovating the house in winter - just stuff like homemade soup or pie & beans but they were gutted when the job finished.

I always make tea and a biscuit (or occasionally a bottle of beer in the summer) for the window cleaner, which I thought was a bit OTT until it turned out DH (who works at home mostly) always did it and he was horrified when one day he was out when window cleaning day came and I had offered him nothing. DH is a very committed tea maker, worse than Mrs Doyle if that were possible.

Your DH saw a cup on the drying rack and asked if you'd had guests.

Is he Sherlock fucking Holmes?

Seriously who notices this kind of thing? Weird and and I hope for the OP's it is not indicative of her husband's behaviour / attitude in general

If they are going to be longer than 5/10 minutes I will. We had a gas man in for 3 hours last winter when our boiler packed up. He got many a hot drink to stop him from freezing in our very cold bathroom!

My DH would notice extra cups out too because I only ever use the one and it's always the same one/different to the cupboard ones. He always asks who popped in if there is another mug on the side /in the dishwasher and he sees it. He's just interested in my day and if say my DM's popped in for a cuppa I may not have mentioned it earlier because it's a standard occurance.

I will say this one more time!!

I always use the same mug. (Well technically I have 3 mugs with the exact same pattern). It's cream with a pink inside and it has a grey butterfly on it. If I want a cup of tea, I always use that mug.

Any guests get any random cup of out of the cupboard. It just so happens he had a teddy bear mug. So dh asked if I had any guests because it was a random mug.

Not out of jealousy but out of curiosity and hopeful too because he likes it when I have guests as it makes me happy

YANBU
I would always make drinks for workmen/women.
I would hope that if my DH or DS was working in someone's house, that they would be looked after in the same way.
We had workmen putting in a new driveway for us a couple of years ago, and they started work early in a morning: DH or I would make them bacon sandwiches and plates of toast.

I'm from Yorkshire we are biologically wired to force drinks.

My DP has blamed so so many drunk stumbles up the front path on people buying a soldier a drink.

It's his favourite.

I don't have hot drinks myself so I have to admit I'm not very good at remembering to offer them to anyone else I also think I won't make it right as people are so fussy about the way they have their drink. I don't always even have milk in the house!

I'm also slightly uncomfortable when people are in my home so try to stay out of their way. Feeling guilty now

christ almighty, it's a wonder anyone can post a single thing about what there dh did or said on here...sometimes the poor feckers can't do anything without someone leaping on it.

I do tea for tradesmen, and also if I'm cooking myself a bacon bap I offer them one, in the unfaltering belief that tradesmen live of cups of badly made tea and bacon baps.

Everyone who comes round gets offered a drink.

I used to have a friend whose husband was a tv repair man. He would only ever refuse a drink if he thought the homeowner had a dirty kitchen.

The man that came to sort out my wasps this week got a big glass of Ribena with ice.

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