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That's pretty cool old-school there. All you need is a flat cap and suspenders over a wifebeater.
Got my hubby to type up some stories for your thread.
So there's this lady we keep working for, my boss described her once as "penny wise, pound foolish." She tries to scrimp and save on every little thing (and save old food and stuff too, it's kind of gross) but then goes and blows $5000 for a new front door. Anyway, we were going to put a metal roof over her house (which used to be two or three houses that slowly merged together) last fall, but we got snowed out. We told her we'd be back if the snow melts and it warms up, but otherwise it'll be spring. So a day comes that's pretty nice outside, and I think even the snow on her roof was melted (which is a rare event after the first snow), but it was suposed to snow the next day. Well what do you know, she calls us up to have us come over and do the roof. Heh, told her no way, it'll take at least 3 days, and by the point she called us we'd've only have had that afternoon. She didn't seem to understand at first.
Another lady at a cottage had us replace a window. the old one was a double hung, and went down low enough it was behind the counter-top in the kitchen. We framed up and put in a new stationary window (it was kind of small afterwards, and they didn't care if it could open or not). Well, she comes looking at it and wants "that cross bar lock thingy" on it, so it'l look like the old window. So we get a board and fit it in and stick a window latch on it to make her happy, but it looks real dumb. especially from the outside.
Another lady (who we ended up walking out on before the job was done, she didn't like what we were doing when we were doing it exactly how she said and not 2 hours earlier she loved), while we were doing miscellaneous things at her place complained to us that she was always cold after she got out of the shower and if there was anything we could do about it, if the door had air coming under it or something. Thankfully the complaint was directed to a coworker so me and the boss laughed about it right after they left to go look at it.
Some people.
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Huzzah!
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I heard a story of a sheet metal worker being sent to an office to check out the balance of the HVAC system. The owner informed the man that "some of the women" in one office complained that it was always too hot, too cold, too something at their desks. He checked out the system thoroughly. The balance was correct, the system was working to spec, and there was little to be done to make everybody happy.
He installed a thermostat on the wall. Wired to nothing.
"If you get hot, turn it down. If you get cold, turn it up."
He installed a thermostat on the wall. Wired to nothing.
"If you get hot, turn it down. If you get cold, turn it up."
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I spent years doing deconstruction while working in construction.
It turns out it is almost as fun tearing it down as putting it up.
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i love breaking stuff.
the noise and destruction make me giggle.
i wish i was the guy who blows up/down old towerblocks. KERPLOWIE!
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It is even more fun when what you are tearing down is more radioactive than Madame Currie's fingernails.
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should i make you angry?
would i like you when your angry?
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I happen to like me all fired up. The cops not so much.
Get real, Dolf. I am lovable to the core.
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well with the radioactive destruction...
i just pictured you big and green...
with all your clothes tearing off!
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Forgive me for missing the Inedible Hulk reference.
There were only a handful of mishaps. For the most part the poison went into the big metal boxes. The buildings were stuffed full of many different mechanical systems. It was the most interesting and challenging job I have ever had. I was also very happy on the last day knowing I would never have to return.
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What does not kill us makes us stronger.
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You don't know what fun is until you use a torch to cut an elevator loose on the 5th floor.
It made such a bang that the cops came.
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The little spring at the bottom did not slow it down?
We hung it from a chain block, cut away everything else, the rails and all, and then said...now should we lower it nice and slow and have to re-pick it halfway down, or should we just slice off this pad eye.....
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That calls for a youtube video.
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