Citroen999. Has it ever occurred to you the the 'Annoying old man' might have required the sachets for two separate occasions or possibly two different people? I think perhaps you do him a disservice with by reaching conclusions without access to the facts.

I plastered a conservatory last year for a old couple ,the old woman wouldnt pay me because she wanted magnolia not pink

Thanks for that Joel. In my defense I am pretty pumped up!
(note that I did say "pumped" not "jumped" or "pimped!)!

The timber yard bloke was taking the p!ss out of you.

When you said 'still 6mm' it will have got his annoyed.

Haven't you heard the term "I'll just sharpen mt pencil"?

If it was a large order he may have been different but for 1 sheet of 6mm ply he obviously wasn't fussed

Him : 'What thickness would you like, sir ?'
Me : 'Still 6 mm.'

I'd be tempted to say
"Something as thick as you would do"

Call to DIY store
"I need some shears to cut my wifes bush"
"What?"
    omg , phone down .

Does this timber yard do much work for NASA?

The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a 338 kilogram (750 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study the Martian climate, atmosphere, surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program, for Mars Polar Lander. However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf×s) instead of the metric units of newton-seconds (N×s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars at an improperly low altitude, causing it to incorrectly enter the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

The orbiter cost $125 million. Never mind.

nice to see bill killer back.

Check the date Kenny

remembered the thread as if was yesterday and it's 3 years! Frightening.

Maybe it's an in house joke...... like the salesman is telling all his mates about your phone conversation and one of his mates is saying... "you didn't give him the old millimetres to inches routine did you"

Had a couple of funny encounters when buying a second hand 6ft chest freezer out the paper a few yrs ago.
One advert was for a large chest freezer so i phone to find out how large. Vendor tells me when her daughter lays down she can just fit in it!. I ask ,how tall is your daughter then? She replys i dont know.
Another person advertised a 6ft chest freezer so i arrange to see it .Drove about an hour to get there and as soon a i walk into the persons garage i can see its  5ft not 6ft.I say thats no good its 5ft,he replys ,"no it isnt i measured it before i put the advert in ,its definitely 60 inches which is 6ft". When i break the news that there are 72ins in 6ft he tells me that im wrong and gets his tape measure to show me.When it dawns on him that he made a mistake he did the decent thing and offered it FOC to cover my time.

Amazing how many people read stuff from post 1, but never read the date of the same post.

WOOD you believe this crazy country.

I would carry the largest tree you can find and drop it on his toe accidently in the timber yard.

Were you looking for lumber support?

Panama were "The only cigars with six appeal".

THEM PARSLEY SAUCE SATCHETS,HE WANTED TWO SATCHETS BECAUSE HE PROBLY LIVED ON HIS OWN AND WANTED TO KEEP THEM FRESH WITH THE SATCHET UNDONE ,HES QUITE RIGHT

Good story from the OP.