Time To Clean Up Your Perspective

A group of my friends and I were meeting up for drinks. We’d finally convinced [Friend #1] to come out with us. He works as an emergency cleaner. Basically, his company gets called if someone has a major spill or lavatory flooding or whatever, and they can’t handle it with their own training and supplies.

He only agreed to go because he’d never been called out to this pub before. As we were on our way there, he was regaling us with horror stories of the different restaurants he’d cleaned, capping each story off with, “…and that’s why I’m never eating there myself.”

Finally, [Friend #2] asked him a very important question.

Friend #2: “[Company] only gets called when there is an emergency. So, don’t you think it makes sense you only see places in bad shape when that is the only time you get called out to them?”

Friend #1: “No, it’s not…”

We could see his brain turning over as this new thought flipped over his paradigm.

Friend #1: “…ohhhhh.”

He quite enjoyed the pub we went to. He actually tried returning as a patron to some of the places he’d help clean and, somewhat grudgingly, admitted they were quite nice when they weren’t requiring an emergency cleaning.