plaster

Where is the one place you don’t want to see a lot of plaster fall from your ceiling? How about right on the pillow on a bed! This was in the normally unused guest room, and it was a fairly small amount of plaster, but that’s about the creepiest place for it to fall.

In my downtown apartment several years ago, the entire kitchen ceiling collapsed due to sloppy work on the place above. Luckily, I was not in the kitchen at the time. But it was catastrophic enough that I found myself screaming curses at the guys above, and they seem to have heard one or the other, because the work immediately stopped. I’m not sure how serious my injuries would have been if I’d been in the kitchen, but all of the fluorescent lighting came down with a crash as well.