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Had a customer bring in a vintage radio that turned out to be full of acorns from a squirrel family.
After opening the back panel, I spent the next two hours carefully removing the nest and cleaning out chewed wires, only for the customer to ask if I could 'just put the squirrels back in' because his kids liked watching them.
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the_lucas20d ago
Man that reminds me of the time my neighbor's kid kept a wasp nest in a jar because he thought it was "cool architecture." His mom found it in his closet like a month later and absolutely lost it. The kid was genuinely upset she threw it out, said he was "studying it." Sometimes the attachment isn't even about the story, it's just this weird disconnect from why something is actually a problem.
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maryshah20d ago
Honestly this is just how people are now. They see something broken and only care about the weird story it gives them. Like when someone's phone gets run over and they're more upset about losing the funny cracked screen photo than the actual phone working. Tbh we fix things but people just want a talking point for their friends.
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