Thread: Strange, but true

This has always stuck in my mind, for better or for worst. When you read it you will understand why.
A bloke I knew had bought a house and was doing renovations. I called in one day and he was sanding the wooden floor with an electric sander IN THE NUDE, apart from a face mask. I was a little surprised and when he stopped when he saw me I naturally enough asked him what he was doing. "Sanding the floor" came the reply. I told him that I was aware of this and asked him about the nude bit.
He explained that sanding raised a lot of dust, (I said that I was aware of this,) and that when he put his clothes in the washing machine after sanding the floor the dust in the clothes clogged the filter so this was his solution to the problem. All he had to do was shower.
A perfectly sensible and practical solution you will undoubtedly say. Anyway he finished doing up the house and sold it and moved on... but that memory lingers every time I see the house or see a sander in the DIY department.
Anyway like the adage says...(Truth is strange.. stranger than fiction).

It could have been worse, he could have asked you to hold the ladder whilst he did the ceiling .

Cheers Ean