Are women too trusting of trades people?

Sometimes i do quotes for lawnmowing & gardening ,if i get to the place early the women are some times in nighties etc with breasts hanging nearly out and sleepy(hmm need to do morning quotes only ),,when i ask if they need the back lawn mowed they sometimes say yes and oh come through the house,,"i have not been able to find the time to mow my husbands away for another 3 weeks i am by myself" the conversations go like that quite often,,

What i am getting at is they seemed to volunteer information freely to me because i am a trade type person who can be trusted maybe ?

Prior to the quotes i might only have spoken on the phone briefly to these woman,,then i a complete stranger gets let into the house with near naked women saying they are home alone ???

Anybody got any thoughts on the subject ?

Have any women on here said more than they should have to strange men ?(people you have just met)

I use to do Pest control for a major company started in Autralia, now owned by the frogs, that rip customers off so severe.
Anyhow, I never had the problem you describe, they would answer the door fully clothed, we exchange a few words and details, confirm payment for the job at completion, yes, all is good, 2-3 hours later when finished, you report back with paperworks for payment,
"Oh!, I'm sorry, I left the cheque book at work, can I send it through?"
Luckily, I had the reputation in the company for having the highest turnover for single person operation in Australia, but that didn't help at keeping in good with the head chiefs, they change operators like daily socks, the company doesn't like it when the client asks for the operator directly, they thinks something is going on and so get rid of the operator.

My sister said a bloke knocked on the door and said he was from a security mob pushing some product,,she said ", naarr i am right i feel safe enough here, look at the door i can lock it but all you need to do is give it a slight push and it opens,,anybody can open the windows sometimes i leave them open at night, but narr i feel safe enough around here "the convo went,,,

My sister said she was horrified later when she realiesed what she said to a complete stranger,,,

You can identify a sales person as soon as you open the door, or someone spreading the word of the Mormans and 7 day adventist,
"Nope, not interested, thankyou, bye"
Door closes.
Same on the phone when they try to flog gimmicks or special charity tickets,
"Nope, not interested, thankyou" Hang up,
cooz they are always speaking a language you can't understand or speak way to fast, you don't know if it's a horse race or auctioneer.

Yeah but men might do it more than women saying they are not interested,,woman don't like to offend as much,are more polite and like to gain rapport but sharing private info they should not more often my theory is,,,

Remember James Grant?, footy player
, was capt of Aussie Rules.
I built a swim pool for him, his most loverly wife would sit on the back steps in her jammies sipping a cuppa watching us at 7 in the morn.
I enjoyed building that pool.

We've had people come to our house for various things trying to get sales etc it's my hubby that natters on I'm the one that gives nothing away..hubby's convo with someone asking him something" Can I come on thursday or friday?" Hubby's answer " No I won't be here I'm going fishing one of those days and the missus is at work." Me when he told me." You don't tell them that they could be trying to rob the place."
I always answer the phone and if I don't like what I hear hangup right off or tell them I'm not interested. Same with the religious people.

Can't really be rude and nasty to the religous lot, they are only trying to save us from ourselves,
all I do is play the "Kevin Bloody Wilson" song, Living next door to Alan.
Or with the Krishna lot dancing in the streets,
drive past and toss out a handfull of small washers, they jingle on the street like real money.

Well i heard some more stuff today that thinks i am barking up the wrong tree,everybody trusts a "professonal" i am thinking.

My sister started up a house sitting/pet minding thingo two weeks ago,she plays with dogs,feeds all pets ,removes mail, turns light on and off and generally watches over places.

To cut a long story short she said she can't believe how folks she has just met hand over the keys,security codes etc to a complete stranger,,ones going away for 3 weeks,,i mean she just bunged up a webpage put some testimonials (aparently i gave a glowing account of how happy i was with her services )

Maybe its the old chestnut if you look professonal people will treat you as such.

No wonder conmen get an easy ride in our society,,,

Well, all you need do is look at the construction industry,
ie; builders and such, (indeed, not all) but there are a few shonky ones, the laws say the must have a gold certification to be approved as a genuine contractor, as I look at it, the don't mean the shonky ones have cleaned up their act, look at this latest with the schools,
you as a private citizen ask for work to be done, you are quoted and find that a fair quote, but when gov't money is being grabbed at, the contractor more than doubles the quote, believing they won't be looked at. I was doing a course a few years back, on the first stage of the course it was XX dollars, then, the owner of the equipment thought he was getting easy money because it was through T.A.F.E, he double the quote thinking he could get more easy money, as a result, lost the work.

I'd be extremely worried about trusting strangers to house sit while I was away or even to feed the dog. Even if they have good references you really don't know that you could trust them to take care of your place and not damage it, even accidentally.

Our daughter-in-law used to house sit a lot when she was single as a way of having some independence from living at home while not having to pay rent.

As to women being too trusting around tradesmen, is it naivity, stupidity or were they actually coming on to you, Lawnmowerman? Perhaps you weren't holding your mouth the right way KL

I know one time when we had to replace the toilet I was terrified of the plumber and was really thankful Littleozzy was just outside. Our toilet is higher than average and apparently when it had been previously installed it hadn't been done correctly - funny we never had any problems with it until I happened to drop a glass bottle and cracked the porcelain - so the plumber had to go back to base for different part. He was cursing and yelling in the bathroom and stomping around and I couldn't wait for him to leave.

Do you mean to say they might have been coming onto me ?

Don't think there was anything to suggest that ,apart from juicy ripe breasts nearly popping out

I think i will go will just naive,,, or was i the naive one,,hmm ,i need to keep abreast of how modern women think,

I'd be more terrified of littleozzy being there

I've handled a few tradie things when hubby hasn't been there doesn't faze me at all..helps when you don't have to get a plumber in my future son inlaw is a plumber and so is my brother inlaw good friend is an electrician.
But I've dealt with other tradies doesn't bother me at all.

MM says;

When doing the pool for James Grant I was

Interesting thread. To go off on a tangent, but still on theme, you would be amazed at what confidential private personal stuff women reveal to Cabbies. We get to hear it all.....what an areshole the husband is to how tough their current period is.

They seem to treat us as some sort of whinge relief valve, and let's me tells ya, even though we are not in the least bit interested, we always politely nod and agree with them.

Then that extends to the heavy pash sessions which occur right behind us, as though we simply were not there.

Unbelievable.





Here is a hint to pass on to your family/friends. Quite often after the customer has gotten out of the Cab, we will not have moved off, having some paper work to attend to. While we are doing that, there goes the customer right to where they leave the front door key, retrieve the key and open the door. We see it, so must the neighbours.

Dumb, huh? Not really, it's as though these people think we simply are not 'there.'

Have you ever seen that show where they had a camera hidden in the cab,,seems everybody wants to tell their life story to cabbies,,hairdressers are probally the same.