THE FIRST BOOK
DON'T TAKE
A FENCE
Forty years of fences, customers, disasters and the strange things people do.
Pete Morris has spent most of his working life building fences. The fences were usually straightforward. The people on either side of them were another matter entirely.
Don't Take A Fence is a collection of true stories, observations and encounters from a lifetime in the fencing trade — told with humour, disbelief and the occasional need to walk away before saying something professionally unwise.
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The fences were rarely the difficult part.
For more than four decades, Pete worked in the fencing business, meeting thousands of customers and discovering that a simple garden boundary can reveal an extraordinary amount about human behaviour.
There were arguments, misunderstandings, impossible requests, eccentric characters, unexpected disasters and situations that couldn't possibly have happened — except that they did.
This isn't a technical book about fencing. It's about the people standing on either side of it.
Apparently, putting up a fence is easy. Working out what people actually want is the skilled part.
“A lifetime of dealing with the public teaches you many things. Mostly that the public should never be underestimated.”
— PETE MORRIS