"mentally ill customers"

[ffemt1271]

i mow a lawn for a lady who likes 200 miles away, she owns the house and her mentally ill sister lives there. she came out screaming last week and told me to stop blowing her drive off because my blower was going to start a tornado in her yard and she was as serious as she could be. i couldnt help but laugh. anyone here deal with "mentally ill customers"?:dizzy:

[corey4671]

I have an older lady who's mind is slipping a little. Every week someone has broken into her house. To date they have stolen Christman presents, blank checks, a toaster, salt and pepper shakers and a can that she pours her grease into when she fries something.

She was having trouble with her garage door opener a few months ago. I changed the batteries in the remote and then checked the breaker box. There were random breakers turned off, one of which was the one that controled all the electricity in the garage...including the deep freezer. Who knows how long it had been off.

[topsites]

Yeah but mine has the unfortunate dilemma of being extremely good looking and she has me come over every day because she likes making babies, feeds me a great cooked 3-course meal and pays me $600 a day and asks if that's enough and I do have to admit I feel a little bit bad about it all but you know what they say, another day another dollar.

Hmmmm, odd, my nose is getting longer.

[Brianslawn]

i want one of those blowers. it must work great for leaves. blow the whole neighbor hood clean in a couple minutes.

[DavidS1964]

A friend of mines who's mother I cut grass for has alhiemers. Every time I go over there to cut the grass she ask me who sent me over there to cut the grass. Then she will ask me have I ever cut her grass before. I've been cutting this yard for two years now. It's kinda sad to see elderly people slowly loose there mines.

[mzgloves20]

Back in the day of cutting every modest yard with a 21" mower, I had an elderly client come out and question me as to why there lines in the yard... after a few seconds of pondering the question, the only response I had was to say that it was becuse the mower had wheels???

[greendoctor]

I do custom applications for a cut flower grower who has Tourette's syndrome. I pay no attention to what he says because I know it is not directed at me and he cannot help it. The man says c#$% every other word and if he is really excited, he starts flipping the bird. At first this what a little shocking to me, however it does cause me to look at the able bodied, but foul mouthed very differently. This poor man cannot stop swearing, what is everyone else's excuse. BTW, I was raised in a house where profanity was severely punished. Say it and my father would thrash it out of you.

[Brianslawn]

you guys think you got it bad. i swear half my customers are mentally ill. it has now rained on 7 different days since last friday. couple of the guys worked last weekend after fridays rain out. everyone worked monday on labor day. what was left of that hurricane rolled through on tuesday afternoon. it continued to rain non stop till friday morning. we been out mowing a few in between the rain (we had a lot more this weekend) the yards we show up to mow the people are coming out and telling us not to mow cause its too wet. the ones we arent going to are calling askin why theirs aint done yet. one we did today the guy said he was about ready to do it himself cause we were 2 days late after a whole week of rain. then at the same time hes bitchin about the ruts. hell we couldnt even walk through it without our feet sinking. we're even mowing in the dark. trying to keep up. now another hurricane is comming.

[laxative]

Not a customer, but had an old woman jump out in front of my truck screaming she needed help. Asked her what she needed. She had no idea. Got a lot worse from there.

[prizeprop]

Mentally ill would be cutting a lawn 200 miles away. I'm guessing you just worded it wrong though?

[ffemt1271]

the lady who owns the house lives 200 miles away, the house is in my hometown.

[FDuce]

Just tell her the blower is an anti-tornado blower. If needed, draw a anti-tornado label and tape it to the side of the blower.

[Mickhippy]

My very first regular customer back in the day took too much acid in the 60's. Theres a long list of stuff he used to do and how he lived but the one that comes to mind was when he sprayed 75-80% of his lawn with bug spray because "theres funnel web spiders everywhere."

[Iloveroses]

just let them talk. but watch your back incase she'd ax you behind. :laugh:

[landscaper22]

you guys think you got it bad. i swear half my customers are mentally ill

This is what I was thinking too. Some of the comments they make really have me wondering about them. I think it's really ignorance. But then again, maybe ignorance is a mental illness. :laugh:

[LushGreenLawn]

I don't have any stories related to my customers, but I used to work for Dell phone support. About every month or so we would have a customer call and demand a new monitor, because her old monitor "sent a bolt of lightning into her brain through her forehead, and erased her memory for 10-15 seconds". She would argue until we would give up and send her a monitor.

[corey4671]

I don't have any stories related to my customers, but I used to work for Dell phone support. About every month or so we would have a customer call and demand a new monitor, because her old monitor "sent a bolt of lightning into her brain through her forehead, and erased her memory for 10-15 seconds". She would argue until we would give up and send her a monitor.

wow..I'll have to try that!!

[FDuce]

I don't have any stories related to my customers, but I used to work for Dell phone support. About every month or so we would have a customer call and demand a new monitor, because her old monitor "sent a bolt of lightning into her brain through her forehead, and erased her memory for 10-15 seconds". She would argue until we would give up and send her a monitor.

I call BS on this. You live in Delaware, there is no US based computer support. Tried to slip one by didn't ya?:nono::laugh:

[LushGreenLawn]

Key word is used to, luckily I left about 6 months before the Dover, DE and Las Vegas, NV (Our sister call center) laid everyone off and closed. Yes, now all of those jobs are in India. This was when I was 18 years old, 9 years ago...

[Lawn-Sharks]

Just tell her the blower is an anti-tornado blower. If needed, draw a anti-tornado label and tape it to the side of the blower.

.........LOL. :laugh:

[Dean of Green]

FDuce, it is overcast here today. Care to call BS on me? We have some trust issue people on this site.

[Hawg City Lawns]

you guys think you got it bad. i swear half my customers are mentally ill. it has now rained on 7 different days since last friday. couple of the guys worked last weekend after fridays rain out. everyone worked monday on labor day. what was left of that hurricane rolled through on tuesday afternoon. it continued to rain non stop till friday morning. we been out mowing a few in between the rain (we had a lot more this weekend) the yards we show up to mow the people are coming out and telling us not to mow cause its too wet. the ones we arent going to are calling askin why theirs aint done yet. one we did today the guy said he was about ready to do it himself cause we were 2 days late after a whole week of rain. then at the same time hes bitchin about the ruts. hell we couldnt even walk through it without our feet sinking. we're even mowing in the dark. trying to keep up. now another hurricane is comming.

i feel your pain

[lawnprosteveo]

I mow for an elderly lady that constantly talks to herself and screams like a raving lunatic at her dogs. When I first started mowing for her...I would always thinks she was talking to me only to realize she was carrying on a conversation with herself....

[GravelyNut]

Key word is used to, luckily I left about 6 months before the Dover, DE and Las Vegas, NV (Our sister call center) laid everyone off and closed. Yes, now all of those jobs are in India. This was when I was 18 years old, 9 years ago...
I'd call BS but this isn't the voting thread.

[daveyo]

Back in the day of cutting every modest yard with a 21" mower, I had an elderly client come out and question me as to why there lines in the yard... after a few seconds of pondering the question, the only response I had was to say that it was becuse the mower had wheels???

All man thats hilarious, I have a 91 year old customer who always asks me the same thing. I have to cut her property with a 21 because she don't like the big mower and every week its the same question "whats those lines in my grass"

[LushGreenLawn]

I'd call BS but this isn't the voting thread.

I'm not sure I follow?

[socty]

I "had" a customer who wanted her lawn cut short all the time, which I obliged to a point. She complained it wasn't short enough, and when I explained that the roots and bumps in her yard made it impossible to cut any shorter, she became exasperated. Then she pointed out parts of the lawn which were a different shade of green, and I suggested that her dog may have been the culprit (which it was). She stormed off into her house, I left, and have never returned. Wacko! :hammerhead::cry::dizzy::walking::waving:

[sweetz]

I had this one lady (I was removing a few bushes & stumps at her house - she is next door to one of my regulars) who was looking for something and she kept walking around her house looking for the item picking up things and putting them away in the process - the only problem is that she kept taking my stuff to put away (chainsaws, etc), plus when she finally found what she was looking for it was in my truck/trailer and had my name on it! We had a long discussion about that!

[esparzalandscaping]

A friend of mines who's mother I cut grass for has alhiemers. Every time I go over there to cut the grass she ask me who sent me over there to cut the grass. Then she will ask me have I ever cut her grass before. I've been cutting this yard for two years now. It's kinda sad to see elderly people slowly loose there mines.

gonna be one hell of a "MINE" field.. :drinkup: