I will tell you my story from the times when I was a "painter-decorator"
There was a house where we were working. Our task was to paint, decorate, wallpapering and stuff...
In the living room there was marble table made to put a TV on it. Table was about 50-60cm high and it was attached to the wall.
Below this table there was wooden floor. A floor was made from bamboo wood. And there was only horizontal connections. One board was same length like a living room. About 6 meters length.
Everything was covered nicely with expensive secure layers of felt and cardboard.
My job was to put this :
on a wall attached to a fireplace.
It is very easy job. Those stones came in pieces so you have prepaded piece in a size ~20cmx60cm andyou just need to cut it from length which is very easy to cut with grinder.
So this is very easy job for a good money
and...
I had almost whole wall completed and there was a last piece to glue. And that last place to glue it was too high for me and I need just a little step
to glue it there. I was too lazy to go and find a ladder so I though that I will stand on that marble table (just for 3 seconds!
this is a time needed to glue there prepared piece
).
So I step on this marble table and it immediately crushed into hundreds of pieces
and what was the best part - marble is sharp and heavy while crushed, and there was a bamboo floor that I mentioned before
BUT !!!
I was so lucky! All of our secure coverings used on the floor made a great job!
Floor was ok!
Untouched, but mu heart when I was uncovering this to see what happen ... I almost had a heart attack
At the end - I just needed to buy marble table for $250
and lady - owner of this house wasn't really mad about it ... as I promised it will have same color and it will be the same
I knew guy who made it, so I just ordered another one
...
$250 was really ok when I was thinking about floor ...
AND! what is more funny about it is that it was 13th Friday of February 2009 and you wont believe
but I asked my friend to count how many pieces were already glued on the wall, (I was on the way with broken table to the workshop to order new one), he told me there was already 13 pieces on the wall
I was trying to glue 14th while I broke this table.
But. I do not really believe 13, 13th is unlucky number. I was born 13th
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