Window Cleaners Keep Secrets

In some jobs, you sign a non-disclosure contract that what you see is for your eyes only. In fact, eyes see an image and send it to the brain immediately, where auto-delete resides.

“Thomas, did you see Miss Starlight on my lap?”

“No sir. Nothing. I saw nothing.”

“Good chap.”

In other jobs, it’s a gentleman’s agreement to see nothing, like cab drivers and after dark, female ogling businesses. Mum’s the word, says the English proverb. Window cleaners see a lot in their line of work, which could be 20 storeys or more. They don’t sign any contracts to keep secrets. It is just understood that it’s none of their business. Have you ever seen a headline where a skyscraper window cleaner, gave evidence in court that proved the wife did not kill her husband, the flamboyant diaper manufacturer, but his personal assistant did? No. And you never will.

There are skycrapers all over the world, and they get dirty like your home windows. You seldom clean yours. That’s why you think some rooms are dark. Tall buildings like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai have a budget for window cleaning. That is when window cleaners swish the window with their sponge swish, only to discover that human beings are animals, and do strange things up there on Floor 30, when they think nobody is looking.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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