Tales From the Front: An Unexpected Scream While Sanding

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Wood floor pro Casey Ditsworth of Woodshed Flooring Inc. in Pearl City, Ill., says this is the funniest thing that’s ever happened to him on a job: My coworker Justin and I were refinishing the kitchen, dining room, entry and hallway in a home, and it had a sunken living room that connected to both the kitchen and dining room, with the hallway in the middle. As I’m big machining in one of the adjacent rooms with my ear muffs over my ears, I hear a scream—plain as day—over all the noise of sanding, even with my ear muffs on. I run into the next room, and Justin is kneeled down in the sunken living room with his head twisted to scrape the underside of the nosing … the homeowners never informed us that they had a huge tortoise that just roamed around the sunken living room, and it decided to say “Hi” to him right then! As he was scraping away, it just wandered up and scared the life outta him!

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