I started my day hung over and this is not the kind of job you want while hung over. I arrived at my first job in a town-home complex. There was an asian woman here, I didn't talk to her much at all. I wasn't very talkative. Her cable had been cut off, so I hooked it back up.
The next job was in the resort town. The woman here was a very chipper southern woman. She started asking me all sorts of questions. She then told me something the tech who installed her place, had told her, which was an outright lie. He said this just to be lazy and not do as much work. Of course I had to make up for this person's laziness and was not thrilled at all about it.
I went to my next job when I was finished which was in an apartment complex. I was there because their cable box was showing the wrong time. We decided it wasn't that big of a deal, so I left. The next job was cancelled, so I found a bathroom and got some badly needed food.
Next I went to one of my afternoon jobs early. This was an apartment, lived in by a nice very religious black woman. She had a lot of gospel CD's and christian DVD's about the place. There was a quite a few things that needed to be replaced, eventually leading to the box. After leaving I needed to find a bathroom yet again.
The next job was listed as a house a couple blocks from where I live. When I showed up a kid answered the door and I asked for his parents. He said no one was there, then I mentioned that I spoke to his mom on the phone. He then said that she lives in an apartment somewhere else. Fortunately it wasn't too far away so I went over there. This is actually a different town that has been completely surrounded by the city. There are no houses in this town either, it's all apartment buildings. There are a lot of immigrants who live in this are as well. Across the street form this building some gentlemen where drinking beer and playing what looked like checkers under the shade of a tree. The Elevator smelled of piss and I was a little to trapped in my head to notice that the light in the elevator was not working. Once the door shut it was pitch black in there, which felt a little like a horror movie. I also couldn't help thinking that people have had sex in this elevator, taking advantage of this darkness. The lady was nice I just had to swap the box. She had four different locks on her door and as I was leaving I could hear her locking all of them. The other elevator also smelled of piss.
The next job was back in an apartment complex I was in earlier. The door was answered by an attractive woman. Everything was working as I was there. I changed some things and gave her my number. I told her to call me if it acts up anymore.
The next job was in a house in the land of scrape-offs. This particular house was still intact. I was actually at this house back in October, when I was still new and riding out with another tech. I remember that he replaced the line to the house, which was reassuring that at least I know that part is good. I was actually here just to replace a box. I also installed a new box for her.
I decided to pick up one more job, it was an apartment building a couple blocks from where I live. It's a really nice building I've walked past many of times. It turned out I needed to replace a splitter outside, but their signal was still really low. So I went outside to get some levels and turn it over to the line crew. But I noticed that the line to the building was old, and I would have to change that before I could turn it over. As I was finishing up some asshole pulled up behind my van in the alleyway and started honking. Like he couldn't just turn around in his little geo metro and go the other. So I took my time and pulled my van over a little giving him just barely enough room to get through, he was really pleased with that. Eventually I finished the job and went home.