I'm an Occupational Hazard 4
Friend and I left Tokyo in mid-January, spend a night in a capsule hotel just for the sake of it, shipped over to Kyushu, killed a day in an internet cafe and ate Fugu, and then we started working in Beppu, in a hostel of the same chain we worked for in Tokyo. And for the longest time nothing worth mentioning went wrong.
Well. The shades of the ceiling laps in the rooms are made of paper and hanging pretty low, and I smashed my hairbrush through ours during the act of brushing my hair, but that didn't happen during worktime, so it doesn't count.
Today, however, I was done with the cleaning before worktime was over and got the task of repairing some of the paper walls in the private rooms. Our colleague had shown how to do that to Friend and me a few days ago, but I had never gotten around to try it myself. Still, packing my tools and pulling the paper door out of its frame I wasn't too worried, because I planned to ignore everything he'd taught us anyway. His method of getting the broken parts out of their frames involved a surprising amount of water considering we were working with paper, and in regard to the result is wasn't the best meothod they could have come up with. Actually, I think it might have been the worst. So I did it my way, which involved the absolute minimum amount of water and the maximus amount of glue, and to my surprise worked very well.
I was quite happy with myself after I'd finished my work, so I enthusiastically picked up the door to put it back - and kind of, somewhat, possibly, smashed the wooden frame right into the paper of the lamp shade.
The frame won.
Well. The shades of the ceiling laps in the rooms are made of paper and hanging pretty low, and I smashed my hairbrush through ours during the act of brushing my hair, but that didn't happen during worktime, so it doesn't count.
Today, however, I was done with the cleaning before worktime was over and got the task of repairing some of the paper walls in the private rooms. Our colleague had shown how to do that to Friend and me a few days ago, but I had never gotten around to try it myself. Still, packing my tools and pulling the paper door out of its frame I wasn't too worried, because I planned to ignore everything he'd taught us anyway. His method of getting the broken parts out of their frames involved a surprising amount of water considering we were working with paper, and in regard to the result is wasn't the best meothod they could have come up with. Actually, I think it might have been the worst. So I did it my way, which involved the absolute minimum amount of water and the maximus amount of glue, and to my surprise worked very well.
I was quite happy with myself after I'd finished my work, so I enthusiastically picked up the door to put it back - and kind of, somewhat, possibly, smashed the wooden frame right into the paper of the lamp shade.
The frame won.