Willy the glass cutter at the Notre Dame St. Rona explains why he has never gotten cut in a job famous for mauling workers:"When someone is standing there waiting for you, rushing you, asking you how long it will take, you tell them it will take as long as it takes. Don't let them rush you."
While countless other hardware stores have removed their glass-cutting services, Rona maintained theirs specifically because of this legendary glass cutter, according to his colleagues.
Willy's birth name is actually Billy but he switched it to Willy because some folks started calling him William and he dislike the way that sounded.
Willy says that other hardware shops scrapped their glass departments because it's too dangerous to put a relative beginner in a job that could conceivably slice one of their arteries.
He won't say how old he is or when he started working but it's said to be a long time but he looks forward to the day he can call it quits. "When you get older you lose patience with people telling you to hurry up or asking you why you're doing something the way you're doing it."