….who called me on a Sunday evening for a booking? I had apologised to him on here and again when he called. Well, the saga continues.
It seems he wasn’t frightened by my sharp tongue last Sunday night. He had called later on in the week to rearrange an appointment for last Thursday. I said of course, it was the least I could do.
Now, if I’ve had the pleasure of seeing you, then you know that part of my work practice is that I ask clients to call/text me on the morning of the appointment before 10am, just to reconfirm that all is well on both sides and that we’re still on. Well, Thursday morning came and went and Enfield guy hadn’t call to confirm, even though I asked. I broke my rule and text him to see if he was still on. It’s not something I normally do, but I got the feeling this guy was genuine, especially given the fact that he bothered to call me back considering the telling-off I gave him the previous Sunday. I received no response from the text. I gave him until 11am to respond and when he didn’t I wrote the day off and made other family plans.
Then lo and behold, at ten past two in the afternoon I got a text from Enfield guy asking if I was still coming for 4pm. I text back and told him that I’d given him up for the day. He called back and we had a chat. It seems he had worked overnight, so was asleep when I texted him, which he neglected to tell me. He couldn’t understand why I couldn’t just drop everything and make the round trip from one end of London to the other. He accused me of not wanting to come to see him, which I found a little hurtful and a little unfair, considering it wasn’t me that didn’t call to confirm. After our conversation I text him and pointed him in the direction of my blog where I had apologised to him, in case he hadn’t seen it.
He text back and apologised and admitted he was in the wrong, he didn’t realise just far Croydon is from Enfield. So wee made plans for me to come and visit him today. And guess what? I’ve had to cancel because of the snow piling up outside. There’s no buses, at all. There are no trains at all into Victoria Stn, where I’d have to go as part of my journey to Enfield. My next door neighbour popped out to pick up some food supplies from Tesco’s and told me when he got back that there were no newspapers because there were no delivery vans as of this morning and that there’s actually a train sitting at our local train station and couldn’t move. Schools everywhere are closed. The South-East of England has been brought to a stand-still with the “worst snow storm for 18yrs”. And according to the weather forecast, it’s supposed to get worse again this evening, during rush hour.
Enfield guy stuck to his word and text me this morning to confirm. Methinks he’d been sleeping all this time and hadn’t stuck his head out the window, or switched on the telly for the news. He’s now probably thinking that I really don’t want to come. Which couldn’t be farther from the truth. He sounds lovely on the phone, and if nothing else, I want to meet the person who wasn’t put off by my acerbic manner on the phone.
We’ve rearranged our appointment for tomorrow at 5pm. Third time lucky perhaps? Stay tuned.