Pledge furniture polish is not for floors
This story is from my mom, Nancy Satterfield
Andrew learned the hard way, literally, that I did not know how to clean hardwood floors. We had just installed oak flooring in our hallway. I decided it wasn't shiny enough after the first time I cleaned it, so I used pledge furniture polish on the head of the dust mop and went over it several times until it was nice and shiny. Well, what I didn't even think about is that the wood flooring butted right up to the ceramic tile in the entryway and out of habit I used the same dust mop on it. Andrew and Marissa had stopped for dinner and he was carrying in a tray of large soda's from Burger King. All I heard was a loud crash and loud cussing. He was really good natured about the whole thing and after awhile we could laugh about it. Both times. You see, I realized getting pledge on the ceramic tile was a bad idea, but it never occurred to me the same thing would happen from stepping from the ceramic tile onto wood that had been "pledged". It did. Andrew always used to come flying in to see Marissa. Let's just say I cured him of that. This memory has put a smile on my face.