11/15/2025
☕ Spill the Tea Saturday: The Step Stool Standoff! ⚠️
Time for a truly embarrassing, but hilarious, story that happened on the job! We're spilling the tea on the day one of our professional cleaners got trapped!
Our cleaner, Lisa, was tackling a high shelf in a client's kitchen, standing on the very top step of a sturdy step stool. Everything was going smoothly until she decided to step down.
As she shifted her weight, she realized her shoelace had managed to snake itself right into the hinge mechanism at the top of the step stool. One wrong move, and the entire thing—Lisa included—was going to fold up and tip over. 😱
Lisa was completely frozen. She couldn't lean down to untie it without losing her balance, and she couldn't pull her foot away without collapsing the stool. The quick, sensible fix was to slip her foot out of her shoe... but in a moment of pure panic and brain fog, that option vanished.
Instead, she did the only thing she could think of: she yelled. "MR. SMITH! I'M GOING TO NEED YOUR HELP!"
The client came running, found Lisa perched rigidly on the step stool, one foot locked in a mechanical embrace, looking absolutely horrified. He burst out laughing as he carefully untied her shoe (while she blushed a deep crimson).
The Takeaway: We take our commitment to cleaning seriously, sometimes too seriously! While our team provides detailed and professional service, we are all human and occasionally have ridiculous moments. We handle every situation—even self-inflicted furniture traps—with care and discretion!
Let Scrub Club handle the high-shelf cleaning (and the occasional shoe-related crisis!).
📞 Call Scrub Club (231) 486-5427 or find us online at www.scrubclubcleaningservice.com
