Feeding workmen

I always offer tea. coffee or a cold can from the fridge and biscuits.

this reminds me of a plumber who told me about a person who rang him out of the blue because she had a leak or some such pressing problem.
despite not being a customer of his, he agreed to come round.
when she realised he was the plumber she literally told him to use the tradesmen's entrance and was closing the front door.
no, he said, my father had to put up with that nonsense; if i'm not good enough to come through the front door, you can get someone else. and he left. good for him !

The story about the instant coffee for the tradesman reminded me of an instance when I was younger.

When I was a student nurse in the RAF some of the sisters came from wealthy backgrounds and considered us as ‘below the salt’. One Christmas another student and I were offered a glass of sherry for a ‘treat’. The sister asked us if we had had sherry before, assuming our families were too poor to have it at home. My friend, the other student, looked at the bottle and said, “Yes, Ma-am, but, but never South African. We always have Spanish at home”

Another of my OH's clients was an extremely wealthy man with houses all overe the world. He even employed staff to do his collecting for him. So, he might decide to buy aboriginal artefacts and the staff would search for the good stuff and go to auctions etc. He also bought a Rubens for his father as a birthday present. You may remember reading about it. Anyway the foregoing is to show how rich he is.

This man used to moan at his staff for buying the coloured plastic coated paperclips. The ordinary ones were quite good enough.

ATM with Covid the rules mean that you cannot feed them - certainly the rules for my removal quotes state that the (wo)men will bring their own refreshments and I am not to offer them anything.