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February 15, 2006
Only a few more months....
til school is done for the summer! I cannot wait. I'm very excited to start my summer job again.
I wash windows in the summertime and it's the best job I have ever had. You may think it sounds hard and boring, but it's actually the opposite of both those things.
While washing windows I get to:
-meet new people everyday
-go inside their houses, look at all their weird decorations and mess
-talk to little kids who are scared of me (I am a stranger inside their house. Sometimes they wake up and I'm there.)
-listen to phone conversations of our clients
-and work outside
I miss the way the cleaning solution smells. I miss climbing a ladder and using the squegee. I had a lot of great times washing windows this past summer. The best day though, is when we washed the 3-story senior citizen apartment complex. Our Boss, Matt, had rented a lift so he could do the outside of the 2nd and 3rd Story and we (my friend Darin and I) were to wash the first story,. However, once he started using it he realized it was going to take forever and was quite pointless. So, instead, we got to go inside every apartment on the third floor and take out their windows to wash them right there in the apartment. We both laughed so much that day. Each woman (i think there was one elderly man) had her own quirk. The first few were very fun, the women asked us if we wanted a drink, or about how we washed windows and what we used. Then it got weirder and weirder. One lady had an Usher poster, which cracked us up. One woman and our guide (the head of the 3rd floor who lead us to each room) didn't get along so well. They both called each other B****es, and complained about the other in front of us. The woman who was not the guide was so funny. I felt kind of sad for her though. Most of the other apartments were well decorated and home-y. Her's has a mattress on the floor, a cheap TV, and a white deck chair in the living room. She seemed kind of bitter, but she was very friendly towards us and had me do extra work. I fixed her bird feeder. This pissed our guide off majorly and she told me only to wash windows. One more lady stuck out. She was very quiet and kind of awkward. In her apartment she had Giant posters of her husband that looked like this:
but with her husband and the american flag. They were everywhere too. In each room, in little picture frames, everywhere! After we finished washing the 3rd floor we took a lunch break.
Matt told me to bring his truck around the building and pick him up. I don't know where I got this, but I thought he wanted me to get right next to him. I pulled the truck around to the side parking lot.
Me: "Darin, do you think he wants me to go right up to him and drive in the grass?"
Darin: "I don't know, you can."
Me: "Alright, I'll just drive through this gap between the pine trees. I can fit, right?"
Darin: "Yeah, go for it."
I started driving through, but quickly saw Matt waving his arms and shaking his head.
Me: "Oh, I guess he doesn't want me too."
I back up and we get out. We realize why he didn't want us to keep driving. I had pushed a big 300lb manhole cover at least 6 feet away from the hole. Immediatly, Darin and I burst into laughter. Matt didn't find it so amusing. He went home (which was 3 minutes away) to get some chains and a crowbar. Darin and I laughed sitting next to the hole talking about how weird the day had been. Matt quickly came back and some how we managed to move it back. Matt wasn't to mad, he just jokingly (or maybe not) said I couldn't ever drive his truck again.
I want the summer to get hear quick. Before I forget how to wash without leaving streaks.
Posted by cory at February 15, 2006 5:01 PM
Comments
What about the time we washed the windows at U.S army recruitment station in yspi? Wow, that was fun, a million windows, and million reasons why we should join the Army.
Posted by: darin Rajabian at February 23, 2006 12:10 AM