Eric Nylin of Dustless Floor Sanders in Malden, Mass., saw the funniest magic trick ever on a wood flooring job site:
“I was 17 when I started working for a company doing hardwood floors. When I met Mike, he tried to rip me out of the passenger seat of the van. I had been working for two years and never seen this guy. He comes up to the door and says, ‘Get in the back and sit on a poly can.’ Apparently, Mike is an ex-employee. I immediately hate this guy. He was a know-it-all, but I could tell he was just a hack with anger management problems. Over time Mike would do some bizarre things. One of the funniest happened in a massive old Victorian house. He was in one of his miserable moods and mowing the floor with an old American 8. The large rectangular windows had big thick drapes with tassels touching the floor. The owners left them in place because they were difficult to remove, but they could be avoided with a little common sense. Instead, Mike kept sanding right up to them. I told him, ‘Watch out for the drapes.’ He told me to shut up. Well, in an instant flash, like a magic trick making something disappear, the drapes were sucked from the wall into the drum with a sonic boom. They went so far into the machine they were around everything, completely immobilizing the big machine forever. I never laughed so hard, and the look on his face was priceless. Needless to say Mike, didn’t last long.”
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