the window guy

We got our windows cleaned today.  A delightful and completely painless experience.
A jaunty young man arrives at the door at 10 o'clock.  "I start on the inside, while my shoes are still clean.  (he laughs)  "Oh no, you don't have to move a thing.  Stay downstairs here and finish your coffee, watch the football game.  I'll look after everything".
Merv likes the sound turned up so we don't hear much and in 20 minutes he's done.
He goes to do the outside of the windows and I run upstairs to check. The windows are clean and clear.  (Lord, I didn't think they were that dirty!)  There's no sign of any kind of disruption.  Items on dressers are simply moved from the back to the centres.  Blinds raised.  The huge bathroom mirrors have never looked better.  How did this little guy do all this with so little hassle, so little planning, so little back and forthing.  He uses a small squeegee thing, and moves quickly and has a cloth as I recall, but I never even saw those until he started the outside work.  That's how quickly he arrived, went upstairs seemingly empty handed, and came down with the job done.
Same with the outside.  He's up and down ladders, back and forth, back and forth, and he's done.  Moves ladder, repeat.  Moves ladder, repeat.  No scraping noise of the ladder.  Just no sense that a job is being done, you know what I mean?  Just so sort of - well - quiet.
He and Merv had chatted downstairs a bit earlier.  Sounds as if he does a lot of large cleaning jobs, not just windows, and that he had a fair amount of staff at one time, but discovered it was inefficient, and bothersome. "I can do twice as much with half as much hassle completely on my own."
In an hour and 15 minutes, he's done. $75 dollars cash in his pocket and our name and number so he can call again in the spring.
Windows sparkling clean both in and out in an hour and a quarter!  No muss, no mess.  Lower the blinds again, and that's it.  Now that is money well spent.
He has a houseful of kids, and needs to bring in money, for sure.  His wife just got him a set of drums for his birthday, and you could tell he was completely thrilled by this.
So our little house feels bright and even the view outside looks as if it's been given a go-over!  It was another one of those things in life where you didn't know the job needed to be done until it was
and then - Wow!