For Vin, A story about chandeliers:
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Back in the 60’s I was at a party with lot’s of good beer flowing. One of my friends, the operator of a large tree business that did (and still does) much of the power companies work. They were clearing limbs from over power lines along a narrow road way off the beaten track. There were few houses with lots of woods between properties.
It was one of those unbearable mid summer days with temps in the 90’s, no breeze and humidity you could swim in. It was getting late in the afternoon and the crew was just about out of drinking water and gasping. The crew foreman told the youngest young man of the ground crew to take a water jug to the nearest house and ask for a refill. He (the foreman) knew the people who lived there so he knew it was alright.
The A-frame house was well surrounded by trees. There was a long hallway leading the length of the A-frame with an addition for rooms off to each side of the hall way. Along the center of the high ceiling were a row of five very large and expensive looking cut glass chandeliers.
The young man knocked on the front door, or rang a bell, or whatever, and waited. He had to knock several times before the lady of the house finally arrived to open the door. I don’t want to get into a long description of the woman, but I knew who she was and being a young and single guy myself, had often seen her around town and had as often come away with very sore eyes from the avoidance of ----- well, you guys probably get the idea. Anyhow, she opened the door totally naked.
The poor kid had never had anything like that happen to him before and in total fright, he tossed the jug, turned and ran back to the tree crew. He was shaking and babbeling to the boss “ the- er-ah- uh th-th-theres a ------“ and so on. Completely incoherant. The foreman told him to go sit down and calm down while he went back to the house to find out what ever was the problem.
By the time he got there, the woman had gotten some clothes on and very calmly told Joe, the foreman, “You really need to have more mature help.” Together, they inspected the damage. That jug had hit every one of those five chandeliers and the damage had been extensive to every one of them. Joe told me the insurance company paid somewhere around $20k.
Tinker
