My day started off with my not having any work until 10 am. I spoke to my supervisor and he gave me more work. That'll teach me!
So that first job was an apartment complex. There was a young and very cute girl here. She kicked her boyfriend out when I showed up. The place didn't have much in the way of furniture. She said she goes to school up the road, studying restaurant management. She's from Jersey. She just moved out from her boyfriend's place. She said she couldn't stand to live with boys anymore. They're too messy. The job was pretty easy.
The next job was next to one of the universities in town. This was a high rise apartment I had been in weeks ago but couldn't get to the roof, so I had to reschedule. There was another young attractive woman here. She's a gymnast at the school. At first I thought she said her mom was living here with her but it turns out her roommate was still at home in Kentucky or something. To get cable to her roommates room I had to leave cable across the hallway. She called her roommate about this and the roommate apparently flipped shit over it. But there was nothing I could do. She called the landlord, who was going to come by to do something about it. She spent most of the time on the phone or on her computer.
After lunch I went to another apartment building about 2 blocks away from the last job. In this one there was a young guy. His mom was here to help him move in. As we were trying to figure out how I was going to do the install, she would cut into the conversation then he would cut her off. It was like an ongoing battle. They were installing curtains and cabinets the whole time I was working. He had a bottle of Jack Daniels in his fish tank. I asked him if that was the backup supply. As I was about to leave he asked me about an outlet in the bedroom. I didn't even know it was there until he mentioned it. I could see nothing labeled so it took me a while to track it down. When I finally did, it turned out the line was no good and needed to be replaced. So I turned it over to our post-wire crew.
The last job was further south. This was my only house of the day. There was an old man fixing a toaster oven in the garage when I showed up. He told me his son and daughter in-law were temporarily residing there. Actually his son was in Virginia training with the FBI. His daughter in-law, who was very pregnant, was staying there in the meantime. Their house had never had cable before, so I had to run everything. Thankfully the guy made it easy for me. He told me not to fasten anything, because once they were gone he might just remove it. He even drilled the hole for me. The basement had all this old west paraphernalia. He had a movie poster for a Roy Rogers movie.