Elation

January 6, 2004

I had a little sand blasting job I took care of today. Couple weeks ago I went to look at the job, a company Logo on the front door of a new building. I got the sample stationary of what he wanted told him I'd call with a price and he said "Just do it". :thumb Had one of the local sign places make the letters and logo for me and I had left the piece of stationary he'd given me for them with the Company Logo on it. They were ready Friday so I put it all together this weekend and all the construction crew was out of the way and I was ready to blast today. The job took longer to mask off and prepare than it did to blast. I was thrilled with the results and so was he. A little apprehensive when I made out the ticket since I hadn't given him a price so when I handed him the ticket he said in a most serious tone..."No. This is not what I expected." I was a little upset. I was fair. But in my mind I'm feeling a little guilty and thinking it did only take me ten minutes to blast. :uh But he continued writing the check and when he gave it to me it was for $75.00 MORE than I had asked for. :lol :dance

So I drive back to the shop, singing all the way, and had barely gotten in the door when the phone rings. It's him calling to tell me that two digits of the phone # are transposed. :passout

:hmmm I though he was kidding. But when he told me he wasn't I dug in the trash and looked at the shiney stuff that the vinyl letters were stuck to originally and I could still see the impression of the letters. When I compared them to the stationary STILL stapled to the invoice from the sign place, sure enough the # was wrong. Now if I had been using the letters as letters this would have not been a big deal. Scrape them off and apply new revised one. But sand blasted onto glass, it's irreversible. So I took the trash and the invoice STILL stapled to the stationary back to the sign place and told them what happened. They are very sorry. They are remaking the letters No Charge. Well, fine. :passout But who's going to pay for the new tempered glass I'm going to have to buy for that door?

:cry :cry I'm kicking myself in the a$$. I should have looked. It's my fault. Somebody else kick me. Please.

Johnnytint · January 6, 2004

That sucks

But I bet you never make that mistake again

January 6, 2004

Nope. I sure won't. And I was being so careful. I was uncomfortable anyway not being at the shop doing it. Trying to remember everything I'd need on the job because it was about 15 miles knowing it would be a pain if I had to go back for anything. :passout I forgot something after all.