Anton Mathias Heft
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Only In Florida #3
8. Mr. M One of the first jobs I had here in Florida was a carpenter for a small remodeling company. It was your average family run business with only a handful of guys, most of whom were related to the owner. Other than myself, there was only one other worker that wasn’t family, and we’ll call him Mr. M.
By Anton Mathias Heft3 years ago in Wander
Only in Florida
Some of the jobsites that my fiancé and I work on are in some pretty remote areas that are deep in the woods with red dirt roads. You see some pretty interesting houses and yards back in those woods. The most interesting we’ve seen, by far, was a series of 10 double wide trailers attached to each other into a makeshift mansion. They were attached end to end, side to side and end to side. They were even stacked on top of each other. Oh the questions I had for the builder. Is that duct tape that's holding them together water tight? How many rooms are there? Stairs or ladders? Most importantly, why?
By Anton Mathias Heft3 years ago in Wander
Only in Florida
Growing up in Chicago and it’s northern suburbs, we often heard crazy stories about Florida, the people that lived there and some of the crazy things they did. We even had a radio station that had a news segment every morning called “Meanwhile in Florida” that told actual news stories from the Sunshine State. There were stories like “A local man and his girlfriend were found dead after smoking meth with an alligator.” Or “Retired, Florida doctor was ran over by tracker while trying to hide his moonshine in a cotton field.” There was even a story about a Florida man, a screwdriver and his anus. Some of these stories would get so crazy that I began to doubt their validity. A couple of years ago, I decided to move my family down to Florida, despite all these crazy news stories I heard. My doubt obviously got the better of me. I will say this much, we found out first hand just how true they were.
By Anton Mathias Heft3 years ago in Wander