I was checkin roof nailing on time on a new apartment building. There was nails 1″ o.c. on just one side of the building. Story was, a lady was sunbathing with her feet up on her balcony railing. None of the framers could tell me if she had a pretty face. I wonder if the inspector would have red tag the job for splitting all the rafters?
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Working my way through college roofing houses in Orange County CA. On one job we had the same thing. Neighbor lady sunbathing au natural almost everyday. (she knew she was putting on a show) The GC finally had to go have a talk with her (yeah right!)he claimed we were working too slow and would never get the roof sheated. No chance of splitting the rafters, we kept missing the rafters! I'll never forget that job!
Back in college when I worked for the U, in the summer all the dorms got full of various camps. Bout July, cheerleading camp hit. 2500 17 & 18 year old hotties staying at my work. We'd show up at 7, grab some coffee, and get up to the 9th or 10th floor to get started working . . . not. With binos, we could look across the compound. All them gals who'd never lived on their own never thought of shutting the curtains when they got back from the shower. We'd burn a good hour before we ever got a saw or a router plugged in. Those were the days.
"The child is grown / The dream is gone / And I have become / Comfortably numb " lyrics by Roger Waters
U guys disgust me...
beautiful young woman are not simply sex objects to be....
damn!
Almost got thru that with a straight face.....
Jeff
Buck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
Duck Guys!
I just saw Jencar right around the corner and she has a whole herd of wimins following. Boy are you in trouble now!.
Excellence is its own reward!
yeah, but just because she heard there were some sweaty, buff construction men in tank tops in here... not that I claim to be anything but the sweaty part right now! (Having hot flashes! Menopause?)
herd of women eh?
you might want to take your own advice, I've yet to meet a women that would take kindly to be compared to any animal that roams in herds.... :)
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals build the Titanic.
Gazelles are ok. Are they herd animals?"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."--???
Are they herd animals?
So I've herd.
I never met a tool I didn't like!
according to what I just looked up a heard can range from 5-10 but may be up to several hundered for the Gazelle.
Though an angry bunch of women, might be better compared to a pack of wolves :)Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals build the Titanic.
Shoot - I saw 8 new responses and thought there'd be 8 new stories... instead its a buncha guys talking about hot sweaty construction workers.
As a former (and soon to be again) service plumber I could tell you plenty of stories. I saw it all. But I never let down my professionalism and I never had any free willy moments although chances abounded.
Try looking a lady in the eye when she is wearing a CLEAR vinyl top while writing your check. LOL
Or the lady who hollers "come on in" and you step into her tiny house to see her soaking in the bath tub.
Some of the less dressed encounters led to absolutely no temptation however. Sometimes they even ruined my appetite for sex for a week!
Was going to ask if you were dead but a vivid sickening flash hit after reading the about the ruined week so now I won't ask.
I've experienced a few of those stories myself as a maintenence carp for a large management company a lifetime ago. The actual experiences never quite lived up to the fantasy stories the other guys used to tell. For some reason mine were never the lonely super models or the 19 year old Swedish twins that I had heard about. Nothing worse than naked "regular" people!!
Experienced, but still dangerous!
A few of my stories actually involved cute young hotties... but most of them do not. But I behaved myself no matter what.
Often it would be something like them changing their clothes acrossed the hall from where I was working with the doors wide open. Accident? I doubt it. Funny? You betcha.
WHW
You plumbers have a rep of being expensive ya know!
They were willing to do whatever it took to get rid of that Plumbing bill.
Doug
I have been asked along those lines. But it was usually the type that would ruin you for life! A hottie did ask that one time. Looked her in the eye and told her I am a professional, am married, and couldn't do that even if she was so beautiful it was very tempting. She let it go at that. The point is you don't want to hurt them or they will be angry and you may never get paid. Diplomacy always!
A friend did maintenance work in the women's dorm at college. He was laughing one time because he had met a young woman coming down the hall from the showers with nothing but a wash cloth. What did she cover up - her face....
There's the old story of the two Dons from Oxford University sunbathing au naturel on the bank of the Thames when a boat load of ladies sailed by. One Don wrapped his towel around his waist, but the other pulled his over his head. When the waist-wrapper commented that the other had failed to cover that which should have been, he replied, "I rather fancy, that at Oxford at least, I am better known by my face."
Doc - The Old Cynic
"Men pick their suits in better light then they pick their women."
Charles Boyer
Your a professional & a gentleman congratulations. I always looked at it from the perspective that if I did indulge them, I would have ruined them for any other man! Always take the high road, sooner or later you gotta go home.
Experienced, but still dangerous!
Most women aren't turned on by exposed butt cracks. Is that because there is a BBB (BIG BEER BELLY) in front that pushes the belt and the pants down?
I dress in a respectable manner so as to avoid exposing butt crack. I also dress professionally. Uniforms.
as my wife says say no to crack!!!!
i wear braces (suspenders) to defeaf the butt crack
aleks
It's not called "butt crack"... it's called "plumber's crack" ;-)
I work mostly via phone and internet. I've been on the phone with a variety of people and in the middle of the conversation I hear "water" running and then the toilet flush.
OK, so it's not the same thing...
Nothing worse than naked "regular" people!!
Don't know, I did some consulting work in a large county jail. Jail-house ugly is bad enough, naked jail house ugly is not improvement (male, female, both, neither, or other; don't matter, not at all . . . )
When I was 17, I use to have to make delivers to some farms during the spring and the fall. The farmers were to busy to come into town to get what they need.
Any how one hot after noon I pull into a farm yard and here is the farmers wife and her two sisters sunning them selves. I take the stuff down to the shop and on my way out of the yard. The 6 year old boy is sneaking up on the three with a pail of cold water and toss it. The look on their faces when that water hit them. The three let out a scream and raise up they had untied the tops to keep from getting tan lines. The mom gets up and chase the 6 year old . The two sisters remember their tops and start hollering your top at the sister that is chasing the kid. I almost hit the power pole but manage to get out of the yard.
One can tell you are a young'un that ain't been married yet.
ONE angry woman makes a pack of Half starved, rabid, angry wolves on PCP look mild in comparison!!!Mr T
Do not try this at home!
I am an Experienced Professional!
Tut tut...boys will be boyz...
a female that walks around "au naturel" with workmen around is either looking for trouble, or reassurance that she's attractive...(or flexing her "I know you want it, but you can't have it" muscle)
Either way she has a screw loose, and commendations to you guys that don't use the opportunity and try to fix it...
Jen :>
Jen...girls have one of those muscles? I didn't know that!Do it right, or do it twice.
OK..I got an "almost" story...
as in probably almost fired ...or arrested!
Working in a house ... they have a 16 yr old daughter.
Drop dead beautiful. She modeled semi-pro from what I gathered....talk of trips to NY for photo shoots.
So I'm there....doing a bath remodel. Working for a coupla weeks. I know the routine.
I show at 7:30 ...pass Dad as he leaves for work and I'm getting stuff ready in the garage. Mom's in the kitchen till 8am. By this time..I'm upstairs and hear the Mom leave for the day and take to daughter off to school. Usually..I'm the only one there till the daughter gets a ride home and then she goes into her room around 3:30...
I run into Mom as I'm cleaning up and leaving around 4pm.
Nice and simple..I know where everyone is at all times. Avoid the bathroom as the kid gets ready....no trips into her room...adjoined the bath I'm working on...till after the house is clear.
Outta habit.....I knock on all closed bath doors...even in empty houses.
Usually.
One day...mid week.....I break for lunch...... head off to the working bathroom.....and just throw open the door....
Well imagine my...and her...surprise as I walk thru the door and see a just showered 16 yrs old semi-super model stepping out of the shower and wrapping herself in a towel. I caught a glimps of flesh and a flash of towel.
She was just reaching for the towel as I burst in...and luckily had it in all the right places by the time I was thru the door and turned to face her.
Neither of us had any idea of what to say....just kinda stared at each other for a half second....then I say Sorry and quickly walk back out.
Seems she had the day off for a Dr's apt and came home first...I was running tools the whole time and didn't hear her come in or go thru her BR ...and didn't hear the shower running.
After she came out....fully wrapped tight in her robe...I just said sorry again...
So now the question? Do ya..and how do ya tell the parents!
Dad was an x-football player...college standout...now dentist!
That was a nice combo.
So later that day.....as I run into the Mom....she asked if I saw Lizzie that afternoon!
I say.....Well.....yeah....and came real close to getting fired and/or arrested!
Then tell her what happened. She laughed. Which was good!
Said they all had talked about locking the bath doors at the family meeting before construction started. I told her how I "always" knock first...
least I thought I did.
Wasn't arrested or fired......Felt guilty for what I didn't even see!
Was glad they had oversized towels....
Job ended well and I try even harder to remember to knock first!
Jeff
Buck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite
All
This is starting to sound like Penthouse Forum!
Not that I read it though.
Doug
Keeping with the original thread but on a different note, first time I saw DW she came up to ask direction while I was nailing cedar shingles onto a one story cabin at a summer camp - that was a nice summer.
PS: she was even with her daddy first time I saw her, so no 'au".
Oops, gave away a well-kept female secret...SOME girls do like to draw as much attention as possible to themselves (never resort to that method myself, of course) by dressing a certain way. The express intention is to make men drool, thereby proving that yes, men are dogs. (Sometimes just to torment them.) Men of virtue and self-discipline usually recognize this game for what it is.
Do men have their own version of this game? I wouldn't know, I only hang out with nice guys.
Jen
proving that yes, men are dogs. And women are...?Do it right, or do it twice.
I think Jen's opinion is the same as yours.
She doesn't play that game, and she doesn't agree with the philosophy. She recognizes that for the two-faced farce it is.
: )
Of course, I could be completely wrong...
; ) A good heart embiggins even the smallest person.
Quittin' Time
You're rarely mistaken...
I'd like to see a dating questionnaire...the only question is "What 5 things do you REALLY want, insist on from a relationship?"
Might prevent a few train wrecks...<G>
Jen
Cats? From Venus? Probly about the same % of good ones to bad ones...
Sometimes I think I understand men better than women...creepy.
A locksmith I used to work with admitted it, when a pretty girl walked by he wanted to hump her leg...he even told his 18 yo daughter "men are dogs...keep your eye on them"
Women are cats, (they curl up in your lap and purr to throw you off guard) keep your eye on them! ;)
Jen
women are like cats and men are like dogs hunh?
I'm in trouble I hate cats, and love dogs.....
Maybe I should be going for an interior design degree instead of Architecture??Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals build the Titanic.
LOL! Someone said we pick pets that most resemble us...opposite rule follows in picking mates (in my neck of the woods, anyway)
Stick with the Architecture degree...that way I can live vicariously through you...(I wish I'd stayed in College...wish I knew then what I know now, blah blah blah never too late tho...)
Jen
AWOOOOOOoooooooo
(pant, pant, pant)