Jerry Springer

I started my day with an install at an apartment. The guy who answered the door has this crazy hair that reminded me of the that guy in the...I believe staples commercials, where he's in a office dancing around delivering office supplies to everyone. The install was easy.
After that was a town home. A man answered the door, apparently he was visiting from out of town. The lady who lives there had recently given birth. Her child was very adorable. As I was installing I could hear her complaining about how the guy who knocked her up took off when she told him she was pregnant. Sounded like a fling. She said it happened the first week she moved back into town. This was exactly the sort of thing you see on Jerry Springer or Maury (when you install TV all day, you become more familiar than you wish with daytime TV). In fact the way they talked to each other sounded so much like one of these shows, for an instant I thought they just had the TV up really loud in the other room. She was talking about paternity tests and how she new he was the father, about whatever woman he was living with now and how she knows that he's been spying on her. It always comes as a bit of a shock when you come across something in real life, which you are used to only seeing on TV. Though I think I've always wanted to believe that stuff is fake as well, partly out of some sort of hope for the human race and partly and partly because I find it hard to believe that they could find that many people like this to air five days a week 52 weeks a year. Anyways the place was quite the mess upstairs, which for me begs the question "Are they just moving in or have they been here for a while?" This time I gathered it was the latter. Of course it can be awkward to raise such a question. I usually don't broach the subject of messiness unless I know for a fact that they are moving in. I think once I got it wrong, and the persons place was generally that messy, talk about awkward.
My next job was at a house, a young woman answered the door. Her place was a mess but that was because she was moving in. The place faintly smelt of Marijuana, which was probably why it took her a while to answer the door. Often I find myself entering a place where someone was smoking up recently. It seem coconut is a pretty popular way to cover up the odor these days. It actually works pretty well, but eventually you still figure out what's going on. Anyways, as I started working she started furiously cleaning the place. The install was pretty uneventful other than that, though the wiring was pretty old and caused me some serious problems.
My last job was at a place I had been months ago. In fact I was doing a job that I had set up back then. Apparently at least 5 other techs have shown up and failed to do the job since then. That was pretty sad.