Rural Telecommunications, Nov-Dec, 2007 by Rachel Brown
Talk to the tech guys at any telco, and they will have the funniest stories about wiring homes. Like the time one tech was crawling around the attic, fell through the ceiling and landed on the couch next to the homeowner who was reading the newspaper. Or the time a tech drilled through a wall … and into the leg of a baby grand piano. Or when another tech drilled a hole only to find butter on the end of the drill bit … because he’d drilled into the refrigerator and hit the butter dish. And the time the cat/dog/hamster followed the tech and got stuck in a wall.
Comparatively, wiring new home construction is a breeze because the walls are not up, and there are no homeowners, furniture, appliances or pets to worry about.
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