Home Improvement

I called a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none handyman and asked him if he can do some work for me. I told him what I wanted done and he gave me an estimate of how much it'll cost. He told me that he would be able to start working today (Monday) and hoped to finish in a few days. Sounds fine to me.

This morning he arrives to start working and he asks me for the tools he would need. Well, I told him that I don't have all the tools he needs, I have only the basic household tools. So he asks me, "How do you expect me to work if you don't have the tools I need?" I was under the impression that the handyman would/should bring this own tools and I told that to him. His response was, "When someone comes to your house to clean do they bring their own broom and mop?"

Well, that got me thinking and from now on, I will only hire cleaners who have their own brooms and mops. Afterall, isn't it logical that if a handyman comes to do repairs he brings his own tools (or he is supposed to, at least), so should a cleaner?