simonl86•4d agoProlific Poster

Question about a crawl space job that went sideways in Tacoma

I was under a house in Tacoma last week, trying to run a new line through a tight crawl space. The ground was wet from a leak, and I was about halfway through when my drill bit snapped off inside the joist. I had to crawl back out, get a new bit, and then spend an hour trying to dig the old piece out with pliers in the dark. My back was killing me and I was covered in mud. The customer kept asking if it was done yet, which just made it worse. I finally got the line through, but it took me almost four hours for what should have been a one hour job. Has anyone else had a tool break at the worst possible moment like that? What do you do to keep your cool when everything goes wrong at once?

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kevin_hernandez834d ago

Read a forum post once where a guy just sat in his truck for ten minutes to breathe.

the_richard4d ago

That "ten minutes to breathe" thing is a quiet rebellion against the nonstop grind.