My best experience with the Idiot Catering Company From Hell:
ICCFH: "Do you know where I can plug this in" ('This' was one end of a 13A cable).
ME (Suspicious, this lot did not return the little form I had sent out): "Whats on the other end?"
ICCFH: "This"
ME: "That is a 13A, 3 way adaptor you have wrapped the two cores from your lawn mower cable around the pins of and taped in place..... Whoops it smashed when I threw it at the floor!"
ICCFH: "But... What are we going to do for power?!!!"
ME: "I can give you a 13A supply, what do you need to run...."
ICCFH: "Well we have two tea urns, a toastie maker and a floodlight...."
ME: That wouldn't have run on the bodge you showed me!"
ICCFH: "We took the fuse out because it kept blowing!"
ME: "You can have ONE Tea urn OR the light OR the toaster!"
ICCFH: "We will complain to the management!"
ME: "In this matter I am the management, and I wouldn't, you did not return the details form and it explicitly says that if power is required it must be negotiated in advance, event management will tell you to get stuffed!"
ICCFH: "But..."
ME: "Have a good festival...."
Thing is, I could easily have given them the distro and a suitable supply, **IF** the silly sods had filled in the damn form in advance, but I will not rework my power arrangements 20 minutes before the punters arrive just because some bloody cook cannot find his dick with both hands and a hooker to provide consluting services!
I have once seen the wonder that is a standard 240V tea urn hooked across 415V because somebody thought that blue was neutral (in the old scheme), it don't half go!
Sorry, raw nerve!
Regards, Dan.