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Wilson Services, Inc
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The other time was a guy who was having marital problems. I was in the basement working on the boiler when he came in and flew down the steps and kicked me. He thought I was his wifes boyfriend. This happened in the days when I was young and liked nothing better than a good fight (certainly before my conversion to Christ) so I proceeded to hit him a couple of times before he backed off and saw the gas company logo on my shirt. He was super apologetic. However he later tried to sue the gas company.
The last incident however was the scariest; it was at night and I had a service order to turn on a gas meter which had been shut off for non-payment. As I turned the corner into the back yard heading toward the back door this guy jumped out with a gun ( a 38 fully loaded) he proceeded to stick it in my face and mumble something bout him getting me before I got him. I dropped my tools and ran out of the alley way and found the first pay phone I could find (no cell phone in those days). The police came but he was gone. It turns out they found him the next day. He was fresh out of prison and I guess some of his old friend were looking for him as to some drug money he had of theirs.
You just never know. By the way I have a thousand stories of what you run into working for a gas company in the inner city.
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On the way home I realized if it had gone bad it would have been 5 hours before someone realized I wasn't at work. I now call to check in after completing a call that late.
This is not something that happened to me but one of my service techs. The techs name was Walter and he loved practical jokes. He did a lot of service in a complex that housed college students. In order to gain access to the apartments it was often necessary to pick up keys at the office. In doing so Walter was always pulling little pranks on the girls in the office, so I guess it was time for payback.
On this particular day Walter picked up the key to a certain apartment with no heat. The furnaces were located in a closet just as you entered the apartment. So Walter proceeded to open the door (I wish you could have actually seen him tell this story as he could be very animated) anyway he gained access and proceeded to work on the furnace. Walter was on his knees halfway into the closet diligently working on the problem. As he told it “all of a sudden he had a funny feeling something was amiss in the apartment”. He was just not sure what it was but he felt a little uneasy, he knew however there was no one home so he proceeded on.
Just then he felt like something was behind him, so he slowly turned but could not see anything as the closet door and apartment door were both open blocking any view of the rest of the apartment. He knew he had secured the outer door so no one could be in the apartment with him.
So he proceeded on pulling the pilot to clean it and replace the thermocouple. Just then something touched his back and as he told it the hair on the back of his neck stood up and he froze. He meekly called out “is anyone there”, no answer; once again he called out no answer. Oh it might have been the door swung inward and hit my back; he thought. So he proceeded on with the repairs.
Just then something touched his back and did not remove itself and sort of pushed him a little bit. He quickly turned around and immediately got a great big tongue licking his face. He almost passed out as a very large Cheetah was licking him and as he put it”tasting to see if he wanted to bite me and have me for lunch”. As it would be one of the girls who lived in the apartment this was her pet and as Walter tells it declawed but it still had BIG teeth.
He went to the apartment phone and called the office and the girls in the office cracked up. It was by the way a very friendly Cheetah as it proceeded to engage Walter in playing with one of its stuffed animals. This time the joke was on Walter.
RJMCT,
Thats MAD EERIE, ,,, makes me wanna keep 1 in the chamber too, i had some crazy lady corner me in a dark basement then call me gay because her oil tank was leaking, reminded me of that movie CARRIE when pigs blood landed on the girl
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What a wonderful world, could not wait to get an HVAC position out in the country.
Next thing I know this enormous head is under the cabinet with me licking (tasting) all over my arms and face...
It was a bull mastiff just like the on from the movie Turner and Hooch...took a second or two off my life that day...
Love dogs just not surprise dogs...
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I had a parachute bag full of duct screws that came back empty, I wonder how many lawnmower tires found those screws.
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The magic is in hydronics, and hydronics is in me
funny 1st, We are regularly told to go into house and service their boiler or furnace with no one home. So this job was just couple blocks from my office. We sent our tech over their and he let himself in and completed servicing the equipment and left. The next day I think the client called us and asked that it seemed we had not been by. After some checking with our tech, he accidentally went to the neighbors house and back door was open , no one home and so serviced furnace. Long story short, I got ph # for neighbor and 1st apologized and 2nd told him he is the lucky recipient of a free service on his equipment. He laughed and was very totally happy. Oh well
2nd, Sad one. We were called in to service 30 unit apt bldg. for really good long term client (somewhat of a friend after all these years), we were to check all radiators and controls in each unit. Mgr went with us as this is a pet friendly apt bldg. to help make sure all went well. We got through several units then got to one unit, mgr barely opened the door and before anyone could react this little dog bolted out into hallway, back door happened to be propped open and the dog went running down the side streets of popular community. Service techs and mgr ran trying to get the dog to stop, he ended up running across one or our more busy arterials and was hit and killed. Come to find out the tenant had just got the dog from a shelter a couple weeks prior and the dog was very nervous and scared. This was a real tough one, my customer (friend ) is a big supporter of the SPCA and was just torn, he donated $ 1000.00 to local shelter in tenants name and was just as understanding as you would ever want. Still strikes me to this day of when I had to make the call to him about what happened and how the tenant and both my techs felt. You try and be careful in all you do in this business but accidents still do happen. I'm just thankful that the many good things way outweigh the bad. Peace all
thanks for telling me before
Then there's the crawlspace, and I mean army crawl, I get my coveralls on and crawl in, as I get to the furnace my forearms are wet, hmm, I don't smell anything, rainwater?, then I hear a flush sound and as I shine my light around on the other side the sewer pipe is broken off and here comes a flush. yeeeAAAAAAAAAAA, I crawled out of there so fast.
I knock on the door, excuse me did you know that your sewer pipe is broken off?
"yes"
"see ya"