People whose work brings them into other people's homes. What stuff have you seen?

I once delivered pizza to a Falcon tamer whose falcon was just chilling with him on the porch.

That was exciting.

As most of these stories will feature tales of hoarding, I'll give you a story with a bit of a twist.

I'm a plumber by trade, and although most of my work is with processing plants and factories,

occasionally our boss will do a favor for a project manager or other high-level contact.

We were asked to go and install a RO system, its type of water purification system, at someone's

country home.

Most people have no need for water that pure.

A filtration system and UV treatment is way more than enough, but if the client wants

to pay for it and he gets what he wants.

So me and my coworker drive to this guy's house in the middle of nowhere. It's a pretty standard looking house and nothing out of the ordinary. We go inside, and he brings us down to the basement

to this big steel door and a set of steps leading further down. This guy had excavated, and over the

last few years built an underground bunker. Think of the place in 10 Cloverfield Lane, but this was way better built.

It was still rather Spartan, as there was no furniture yet, but this place was massive, possibly

about 5,000 square foot of living space.

There was an air filtration system that would bring fresh air in and pump it out to several

spots on his property, a series of buried reservoirs to hold fresh water pumped from his well,

after I went through his newly installed RO.

He had power from a mix of the grid and a small solar plant on the roof of his house,

and another in a field away from the house, as well as a backup generator.

There were shelves in the walls with lights installed for growing small crops,

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