The Face in the Bathroom Window
Sep. 21st, 2010 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purejuiceThe often-noted, but really very weird thing, about having people work on your house is that just as you withdraw your heinie from your pajamas and prepare to sit on the toilet, a face appears in the window. Ditto wandering around the house doing laundry in your pajamas or detwisting your knickers or inspecting your surgical stitches. Try it and a face appears in the window.
So you start rising and dressing and scratching and making the bed at 6 a.m., given the virtuous hours of people who work on houses, so as to be free of grooming issues when the guys arrive.
And they don't arrive, one principle of working on other peoples' houses being to overschedule yourself, do half the work in one place, and then start on the next while holding the testicles of client number one in your dirty fingernails.
I have to say, it's easier than doing it yourself and living in a war zone for years.
So you start rising and dressing and scratching and making the bed at 6 a.m., given the virtuous hours of people who work on houses, so as to be free of grooming issues when the guys arrive.
And they don't arrive, one principle of working on other peoples' houses being to overschedule yourself, do half the work in one place, and then start on the next while holding the testicles of client number one in your dirty fingernails.
I have to say, it's easier than doing it yourself and living in a war zone for years.
