I expected yesterday to just be an easy breezy day. All I really needed to do was hang some drapes in a model unit, layer in some additional accessories, and buy some draperies for another client. Of course nothing really goes quite that smoothly with me.
I arrive onsite with draperies, accessories, and my steamer in tow to finish my model unit. I am excited, I love to see things come together. So first I find out there are residents in the model….hmmmm this should be interesting. Their apartment is being worked on so the model unit is their home for the day.
The wife is lovely and is sharing her decorating stories with me while I am clipping in drapes, hanging shower curtains, and unwrapping accessories. She leaves to go to the library and leaves her husband who is deaf and blind with me. Luckily, he is sitting in a chair listening to a walkman. (not sure how that is possible but whatever) At one point I am trying to expand a drapery rod so the drapes are on the outside of the window frame. The rod splits apart, the rings slide off with the panels and I come crashing to the ground to top off the pile. The husband has not even flinched. It is like something out of a sitcom. I could be impaled on this drapery rod and he would have noticed nothing.
The wife comes back later and I am steaming out drapes. She says she and her husband are going to lunch. At the same time a group of doctors show up to tour the model. About 10 minutes later the husband is looking for his wife. She went to lunch without him!!! So off I go to find the wife so she can come back to collect her husband. Luckily, I find her in the corridor and she has realized she forgot her husband. Yikes.
So the wife, the husband, and the team of doctors leave the unit and I am….finally….left alone with my steaming. I wrap things up and head out.
Tags: Funny Stories, Model Unit, Staging