When Window Cleaning is Tough
I started my window cleaning business 6 years ago and today I cleaned the toughest window I think I have ever cleaned out of over 100,000. I was working on an older home with a lot of paint chipping off the windows. I saw a number of pictures of a little girl about 2 years old and the grandmother was home so I asked for a vacuum cleaner due to lead-paint chip concerns and the baby.
The grandmother informed me that her 24-month old healthy granddaughter had just died a few days before of CROUP. I was a bit shocked to say the least. I slowly worked my way through the rest of this house and the last window I got to was in a light yellow nursery behind a gliding rocker and beside a crate full of toys. On the lower window sash of this double hung window were the tiniest little greasy finger prints made by a little girl standing just a little over 2 feet tall peering out that window. I just sat there bearly containing myself before I could build up the courage to forever wash away those
greasy little pads.
My business doesn’t usually have any deep considerations but I nearly lost it as I erased those fingerprints. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain of the death a child or the absolute deafening silence that comes with losing your only child. I would ask you to keep this young couple in your prayers.
I will never again take for granted little greasy fingerprints on windows.
Steve
Hey, Steve,
Just so moved by this piece. Thank you so much for sharing it with the family. Blessings on you and on the family of the little girl.
Michael
Steve,
Wow! I lost a sister when I was 4 years old and she was three years old. That was 44 years ago and it still affects my family.
I have a suggestion. Perhaps the family that lost their child were not aware of their little one’s fingerprints on the window. You might offer to save those prints either by not cleaning them off the window, or even better, by suggesting they have them photographed before the window is cleaned.
Robert Lamb
Window Masters
http://www.robscleaningservice.com/
Wow that is amazing.
I have never encountered such a thing in my years of window cleaning.
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Wow, That’s a very deep feeling you expressed while cleaning those fingerprints. I myself would have a hard time emotionally cleaning that window also. I have never been in that kind of situation so far. I pray i don’t have to witness that.
We only work in the Phoenix AZ metro area.
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Wow, That’s a very deep feeling you expressed while cleaning those fingerprints. I myself would have a hard time emotionally cleaning that window also. I have never been in that kind of situation so far. I pray i don’t have to witness that.
We only work in the Phoenix AZ metro area.
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