Funny Stories

    Going off-topic from the usual information, it's Off The Roof Friday where I try to be a little entertaining to break away from norm because it's the weekend time to have fun. Today, I want to share some stories that I find hilarious in hindsight. You know, RCS is the best contractor out there, when you trust us to with your home restoration project, we do everything to get the job done right the first time, and most of the time we do just that. there are; however, times every once in a while, when things just don't according to plan.

    When I was still new to the business, I rode with a claim specialist to get some field experience. We went to a house where he got on the roof and couldn't get off, so he told me to bring the ladder to another part of the house. I didn't have a lot of experience with a 28-foot extending ladder and when I retracted the ladder, everything was going well... until my arm got caught in the retracting latch. The pain disoriented me and next thing I know, the ladder was riding my back like a rodeo bull. Thankfully, I got the ladder on the ground without breaking anything except for my pride, for the record I still not have lived that down.

    One evening we were working on a water remediation job and after we spent seven days extracting all the moisture from the home, someone in our crew who very skilled at plumbing saw an issue with the toilet. He went to go pull the toilet out, and the guy in charge said, "I don't think that's a good idea." He replied, "I been doing this for 20 years." And as soon as he said "20 years" he pulled that toilet and the water come running out of the pipes, undone one third of the work we did to get the house . The moral of this story: It doesn't matter if you have 20 years experience in plumbing, make sure the water pressure is turned off before you take something out of a bathroom.

    I was out hanging advertising flyers in a neighbor and I came up to a door, put a flyer on the door and I went to leave. As I was leaving the garage door, I heard the homeowner saying, "Don't you dare ring that doorbell!" I about jumped eight feet in the air, I turn around and he asked, "Can I help you?" And I said, "Oh I was just hanging some information on your door, sir." And he chuckled and said, "Oh okay, sorry to startle you, just got a sick wife inside and I didn't want someone ringing the bell bothering her, you have a great day." From that day on, I learned to be on guard when entering and leaving someone's property when door hanging.

    These are just a few rare stories that I gotta look back and laugh at. I turned 29 years old about a week ago, and ten years ago when I was working as a bagger in a grocery store, if you told me I was going to be part of the best restoration contractor around, I would have said, "No way, I don't even know what contractors do." But it has been fun working with Johnathon Rosser, the only boss I've ever worked for who can properly execute a chokeslam.