Kenneth Kelly
The homeowners’ dog stole my coworker’s food two days in a row—hopped right up in the van and snacked away!
Chris Traver
I was cornered by a billy goat who wandered into an old farmhouse.
Tom Hanson
I worked for a company that had multiple vans, with two guys a van. We were done early one Friday and we’re heading back to the shop and the boss called us and asked us to look at a job that other guys in our company had done. They were off that day, and the customer complained of swirl marks. My partner hated working late and liked to hurry things along, and he was already pissed. He didn’t want to go. I said, “We’re done early; let’s just check it out and fix it if we can.” So we go and I’m talking with the customer. He comes in, flicks the lights off and asks the customer: “Can you see the swirls now?” The customer says no. My coworker says, “OK, we’re done here.” He goes out in the van and starts laying on the horn and telling me, “Let’s go!” The boss didn’t find it funny when we got back to the shop, but the other guys ultimately had to fix it the following week.
Josh Swenson
I was cutting in with an oil-base finish. I stepped back and slipped in the finish and ended up dumping a whole gallon of finish all over me. Hahaha, rookie!
Patrick J. Russell
Somehow a chicken got trapped in the house overnight and pooped all over the floor. I had my brother clean it up.
William Burnam
I waited until the exact moment when ol’ Ted was about to make contact between pigtail wires and a live fuse box (that’s right, fuses, not breakers) to slap a broom stick on the floor behind him as loud as I possibly could. The man’s soul almost went to heaven that day.
Dean LaPointe
The boss’s wife wrote the wrong address down on our work order. We got to the house, found the key under the mat, moved all the furniture and started sanding. The homeowner’s nephew pulled in and asked what we were doing there. LOL, apparently we’re sanding this floor for free!
Josh Johnson
We were about to final coat a job and needed something out of the trailer. Well, apparently while the door was open to the house, a chipmunk came in. I proceeded to corner it in a closet and eventually caught it. It was surprisingly calm until halfway to the door—the last 30 feet to the door, it almost chewed my left index finger off! Good times looking back now!
Michael R Leonzal
My guys and I were working an old empty school with no air conditioning in August. They were on the third floor and it was so hot while they were edging. Since the school had been empty, they stripped down to their boxers and tennis shoes that week. I didn’t relay to them that enrollment began Thursday, and that day the first floor was occupied by staff, kids and parents. At break they came down the stairs to the entry level to go smoke. They turned the corner to a group of children, parents and staff. My name was urgently called over the PA—they politely asked me to have my workers put their clothes back on.
Nick Spano
We had a guy show up after staying at his girl’s house the night before wearing her spaghetti strap T-shirt and possibly her shorts. We roasted him all day! Needless to say, he never showed up in girls clothes again (but at least they were clean clothes).
3rd GEN Flooring LLC
I don’t remember why exactly my truck door was open, but before I left the house that morning, a chicken snuck into the back of my truck. At the end of the day when I opened the door, said chicken made a break for it, and now I’m spending 15 minutes chasing this chicken around my customer’s yard to catch it. I did finally catch the chicken.
ds_hardwood_flooring
I walked in on the demo guys panicking looking for the main water valve. One of their guys clogged the toilet so bad it was overflowing, and there was water everywhere. He was working the plunger while the boss was running around looking for the main water valve.
emlhardwoodfloors
I was about to start nailing a floor, and then this lady came in to look at it and started to cry! She said she was crying because of the gaps. I told her, “We still have to nail it!”
