A Dilemma of Handymen
Bob
became our handyman. Advantages: he can
fix things I can only break. I am persistent,
but not handy. When I try to fix
something, it does not stay fixed and something else gets broken before the job
is completed, leading to a never-ending cycle of repair. Bob also lives close by, can arrive at our
place in minutes, has lots of energy and wants to do the odd jobs.
Disadvantages: Bob, we learn, almost never does a job in the
first visit. Usually, he arrives without
warning, calls us on his cell phone while he is standing at the corner of our
garage. He makes the call to tell us
that he has an emergency and can’t stay very long at all. What can he do in 5 minutes?
He is a tall, thin
man perpetually sparking energy, but seemingly unable to complete any task
during a single visit. He has the gentle
manner of an aging hippy, someone who would have played a bongo drum to
accompany a poetess/modern dancer/snake handler in the 1960s and who continued
following the hippy, devil-may-care attitude far too long.
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