skyscraper window cleaners. What is the most bizarre thing you've ever seen on the job?

Once while cleaning a high-rise apartment, an old lady kindly asked me if I was hungry

and proceeded to open her window and hand me a pizza slice. So I sat there 27 stories up,

tangling on my chair and eating pizza. It was a good day. Not as exciting as the other stories,

but something I'm blown away by when I'm on ropes is how many people feel guilty about not working when I'm around.

When you look into people's workstations, you can see that almost no one works. Most people are on Facebook, YouTube, or on news sites.

But the second they notice me outside of the window, they quickly switch to an Excel spreadsheet.

Like, they think I'm some kind of productivity spy about to rat them out to management.

Keep cruising the internet, people, don't mind me.

And also, pointing to the window and saying,

You missed a spot, isn't funny. F you.

I've been a rope access window cleaner for a couple of years and have seen my fair share of weirdness.

A couple incidences that strike out are a young couple having fun that invited me to join. An apartment in a ritzie

building completely empty other than a table with several sheets of freshly printed uncut

$100 bills. A real goddamn mummy sarcophagus. Been offered several dubies, hits and various adult beverages

while hanging off the side of a building. Animals were always my favourite, though. Cats and puppies

lose their mind seeing you outside their window and will happily chase your mop and squeegee while you work.

Always brightened the day. Another memorable moment was causing a mild panic in the dining room

of a local retirement home,

dementia ward. We felt bad and went as quickly as we could, but the nurses laughing their butts off

as they tried to contain the pandemonium made us feel slightly better. Not a skyscraper window washer,

but was a janitor who had to wash the windows in a six-story building as part of my job. So I used a mix of

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