On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:18:23 -0400, Shawn Hirn
wrote:



On one job that consisted of adding a deck onto a kitchen in a modest
row house, my dad had to remove a window air conditioner in order to
knock down the kitchen's exterior wall.

My dad declined my offer to help and he said it was just a light air
conditioner and he could handle it himself. He opened the window to
release the air conditioner and it dropped out to the ground below. The
man who owned the home and I were both watching as this happened and the
look on my dad's face was priceless.

As it happened, the customer was behind in paying my dad, but my dad
liked the guy so he didn't make a big deal of it. After the crashing
sound ended, my dad just said in a smug face to the customer that he
could deduct the price of a new AC off the money he owed my dad.

Fortunately, the customer was nice about the situation, but the look on
his and my dad's faces just cracked me up. I was literarily on the floor
laughing! The look on my dad's face as he snarled at me to stop laughing
only made me laugh more.

Working out of town, I was staying in a rather cheap but handy
downtown hotel in mid November. On checking in on Monday, I was
assigned a ninth floor room for the week. Late in the evening I
noticed a draft coming through the makeshift card stock filler beside
the window A/C so attempted to adjust it to seal better - yep there
goes the electric cord out the window! when I called the desk to tell
them what hat happened, they offered to send someone up with another
A/C, but I said that I only wanted to explain that thump above the
dinning room ceiling. It was still there when the job finished three
weeks latter.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada