Re: Up in An Attic In August in Yuma Arizona

[Jim Davis <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday, August 17, 2018 at 6:18:42 PM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 8/17/2018 12:49 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
> > Hey, that's not fair.
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> > I can't think of any "nice" stories.
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> > But, =E2=80=A6.. then again,.... I live in New York.
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> Come on Jim, New Yorkers have gotta have a nice story=20
> somewhere...............
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> Maybe a customer that paid for the whole job up front in cash??
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> Or how about, I went to a house that had a 36" crawl space that had
> concrete from wall to wall easily 40' x 30'.  With a very smooth finish.
> Even had a center drain that the concrete was sloped towards.
> Had to go in to spice some wires up between the floor joist.
> Right there beside the hatch was a new Mechanics Floor Creeper.
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> Yee haw!!!!  Well that made my day!!
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> Les

Damn!

Jealousy is a cruel affliction. I never have such luck.

Generally speaking, most New Yorkers are pretty nice =E2=80=A6. particularl=
y in the suburban areas. It's just that we don't take any crap from anyone =
and likely have a short fuse.=20

My son describes me as:

You're a nice guy
You're a nice guy
You;re a nice guy
You're a nice guy

Then you're not.
.
But anyway, speaking of crawl spaces =E2=80=A6.
Reminds me =E2=80=A6.. Years (and years)  ago, one of my customers mother, =
(who was not my customer), and who had an unmonitored alarm system had a pr=
oblem with her system. My customer asked if I could take a look at it. Her =
house was on a canal and had a crawl space because of the proximity to the =
canal. When I got there I noticed that the house had a "smell" to it that I=
 just attributed to cooking or whatever but it didn't have significance to =
me until later.
.
Trouble shooting indicated that there was an open in one zone. After checki=
ng all the contacts I concluded that it was probably from a rodent chewing =
on the wires in the crawl space. After searching for the key to the lock on=
 the outside Bilko crawl space doors, I opened it, probably for the first t=
ime in years. The crawl was about 4 feet high, (more than enough room ) but=
 =E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6. the dirt floor was a complete solid sheet of jelly lik=
e fungus (I guess ?) about an inch or two thick. =20
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Being pretty young at the time I got my knee pads on and "waded" in. Found =
and repaired the chewed wire. I had to hose my self off and clean myself up=
 with rags before I left and then had to go home to shower.=20
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I gotta tell ya, I could smell that S*@%t for WEEKS afterwards. I told her =
son about the problem but I don't know if they ever did anything about it.=
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Probably made a fortune selling it to a laboratory to make penicillin or so=
mething.