Re: Good news... well, sort of

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 28, 2:06=A0am, G. Morgan <usenet_ab...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Years ago when I worked for Binky I was in Houston's 5th ward, a notoriou=
s
> slum. =A0I drove by the place 4 times counting the address numbers becaus=
e where
> the site should have been, but all that was there was a run-down looking
> abandoned crack house. =A0Finally, before just leaving a guy comes runnin=
g out
> towards the street and asked "yo here to install ma security?". =A0I paus=
ed, and
> asked him to verify the address - it matched. =A0I asked if he had a work=
ing
> phone line, yes. =A0I asked if the power was on, yes. =A0Shit!

Big whoop, I've done several Chicago project apartments in the past,
not a big deal

> So I go in there and look around. =A0I was gonna drop the job but there w=
as
> existing wiring from an old system (exposed), and I asked if I could just=
 use
> what I could from that. =A0He agreed, apparently he was turned down by se=
veral
> companies. =A0He was pretty cool, a Jamaican accent. =A0He had a full coo=
ler of
> beer and told me to help myself (which I did when the job was 95% complet=
e). =A0

Drinking on the job, how thoughtful. Why couldn't you have waiting
until you were home?