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I don't know if all our readers know this, (haha, what readers? *sigh*), but I remodel kitchens for a living. It's challenging and engaging work and I love it. A kitchen, depending on the size and complexity of the remodel, takes roughly 2-6 weeks from start to finish. So, because these projects take such a short amount of time and I'm also jumping around to several jobs going on at the same time, I meet a lot of different people. Keep in mind that for the most part while we are working on their kitchens the clients are living in the house. This is really interesting. How often do you get to go into a stranger's house and observe how they live? People are amazingly quirky and I end up with a lot of interesting stories and funny observations. So, I thought I'd share a couple with you.

the first one is a conundrum. My coworker Aaron and I were working in a house. We'd moved the fridge to the living room and were getting ready to install the cabinets. I had a water bottle that I wanted to keep cold so I went to put it in the fridge. When I opened it up I noticed a large bucket of kentucky fried chicken and a big bag of food from A&W. The homeowners don't come home for lunch and we hadn't seen them in the morning so they had must have bought it the night before. So, my question is who buys fast food for a later meal. Fried food is like crack cocaine. You buy it when you want it. You don't save it for later. Who likes soggy chicken? Anyway, I thought it was funny. The next day it was still untouched. But the day after that a little of it was gone. Then over the next few days it disappeared. How can 3 day old fried chicken be good? If any of you out there have done this or know of some reason why they might have stored KFC for a later date let me know.

This next story I actually wasn't there for but it was told to me. A couple of my coworkers showed up to a house to start a kitchen. These homeowners were very much into trophy hunting. Their living room was covered with the mounted heads of their conquests. They had local game and also a few heads from hunting trips they had made to Africa. Now the funny thing about this was that they lived in just a small basic, single story, ranch style house. It wasn't like they had a trophy room or something. The heads were everywhere. The funniest thing, however, was one head in particular. One of the kills was an african game animal. It was similar to an impala but had horns that were like 4 or 5 feet long. So, to avoid having to mounting it at knee height they had cut a hole in their ceiling and shoved the head up to the height of the others.



I've got a couple more. But I'll save those for another date.

-kaz