Yesterday, I spent a fair bit of time talking a friend through an electrical problem. This is not uncommon, and honestly, I don’t mind helping if I’m able to do so. I have been helping people with wiring over the phone ever since I started in the trades some 47 years ago. The advent of smartphones has made this much easier. Sharing photographs and information from the internet is especially useful.
After I finished (successfully)
helping my friend, I got to thinking about the most interesting “phone wiring”
project I’ve ever helped with. A friend of mine had called me because a
replacement light he’d hung in his kitchen was not working. Partway through our
phone conversation, I heard his wife yelling in the background.
“Did she just say you’re on your
ladder and naked? Are you naked?”
Without hesitation, my friend
answered, “Yeah.”
“Why are you working on this stuff
while naked?”
“No particular reason.”
For some reason, an image of him
naked but wearing safety glasses rushed to the front of my brain. I quickly
tried to trot a puppy dog through my head to clear that image. “Well,” I
eventually responded, “we don’t do a lot of naked electrical work. It may not
be the best idea.”
—Mitchell Hegman
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