I may have mentioned that the company I work for is a bit slow while we’re waiting for the next project to start. In the meantime, I’ve been doing shop work for them and some “side work” on the rest of the days. It’s good in one way; a little bit of freedom and more money while I still carry my benefits. The down sides are; insecurity, I’m doing residential again and I sometimes have to do a Saturday.
Yesterday I couldn’t wait to get home. I didn’t sleep very well the night before and I was wiped out from from tossing ductwork around all day so when my friend called and asked if I could help him on a job this morning I wasn’t too stoked. He then mentioned that it would only take about four hours and it was worth $400. Yeah. I got up all bright and early this morning, made some coffee, had some smokes, around online for a bit, took a shower and headed off to meet this dude. By eight o’clock I was sitting at the Wa waiting. I called him and asked him where the job was because I was getting impatient. By the time I got to the job he was pulling in behind me. We parked, got out and bullshitted a bit about how easy the job will be while we finished our coffees.
He called the customer to let him know we were outside the condos and would be up soon. We gathered the tools we would need to remove the existing the heater, went to the door and hit the buzz-up. Dude buzzed us in and we walked up three flights of stairs to get to the condo we were working in. As we got to the third landing the door to the condo was opening -the customer, a seventy year old man was standing in the doorway pulling on his shorts! We both instantly turned around as the old dude finished covering up his gray haired giant old man balls – What. The. Dude, the last thing I ever wanted to see, especially at eight thirty in the morning is some nasty old man’s balls!
Thankfully the guy left to go to the diner ten minutes after we got in there, which was good because that was about as long as I could hold my laughter.
I’m gonna have to consider this another major downside!
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