A small moment on a framing job in Northern Utah that made us all laugh
I work as a framing carpenter in northern Utah, mostly framing houses.
Back in late September 2025, my boss got a job to completely gut and remodel a house for a guy who had actually been my boss’s foreman years ago when he first started framing. So it was kind of a full-circle situation.
While we were tearing everything out, there was this old telephone still hanging on the wall inside the house. Nothing fancy—just one of those older-looking wall phones that had clearly been there for a long time.
One of the guys I was working with looked at it and said, “Hey, look, that looks like the kind of phone they used back in Joseph Smith’s day.”
We all just kind of paused for a second and then burst out laughing. It wasn’t meant to be deep or anything—it was just one of those dumb jobsite comments that hits everyone at the same time and makes the day better.
Anyway, just a small northern Utah moment I thought people here might appreciate.