Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Louie the Handyman
If your name gets selected for the "Grand Slam 5th" on the Yankee radio broadcast, you win dinner for two at a nice restaurant. But if the 4th Yank batter in the inning hits a grand slam homerun, you win a Toyoya Camry. This was tonight's 5th:
- B. Abreu doubled to deep left center
- A. Rodriguez singled to shortstop
- H. Matsui flied out to deep right center, B. Abreu to third
- J. Posada walked, A. Rodriguez to second
- J. Giambi homered to deep left,Posada, Rodriguez & Abreu scored
Announcer John Sterling was decent enough not to mention how close one woman came to a new car.
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Louie the Handyman shows up this morning with a printout list from the state inspector of all the repairs he has to make in the building. He walks in & wanders around, "It says here paint ceiling in bedroom, cracked window sill livmg room, electric switchplate bathroom, overhead light fixture bedroom, molding on bedroom window - I don't see no problem with window - install chain lock front door..." I was here for that inspection & except for the chain lock none of them are familiar. So I ask Louie for the list & have him show me, & it turns out he's reading another apartment. I point to my apartment, & there's the chain lock, adjusting automatic door closer, repair & paint bathroom window, which he already did because it was on city inspection list, & I had him replace the damaged bathroom ceiling tiles that aren't on the the list because it happened later, & he was finished in 20 minutes & out of here instead of spending all morning doing work that didn't need to be done. But I'm at home & probably more alert than many of the other tenants, & I wonder how many things on his list Louie won't be fixing today because he's in the wrong apartments fixing things that don't have to be fixed.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
- B. Abreu doubled to deep left center
- A. Rodriguez singled to shortstop
- H. Matsui flied out to deep right center, B. Abreu to third
- J. Posada walked, A. Rodriguez to second
- J. Giambi homered to deep left,Posada, Rodriguez & Abreu scored
Announcer John Sterling was decent enough not to mention how close one woman came to a new car.
***
Louie the Handyman shows up this morning with a printout list from the state inspector of all the repairs he has to make in the building. He walks in & wanders around, "It says here paint ceiling in bedroom, cracked window sill livmg room, electric switchplate bathroom, overhead light fixture bedroom, molding on bedroom window - I don't see no problem with window - install chain lock front door..." I was here for that inspection & except for the chain lock none of them are familiar. So I ask Louie for the list & have him show me, & it turns out he's reading another apartment. I point to my apartment, & there's the chain lock, adjusting automatic door closer, repair & paint bathroom window, which he already did because it was on city inspection list, & I had him replace the damaged bathroom ceiling tiles that aren't on the the list because it happened later, & he was finished in 20 minutes & out of here instead of spending all morning doing work that didn't need to be done. But I'm at home & probably more alert than many of the other tenants, & I wonder how many things on his list Louie won't be fixing today because he's in the wrong apartments fixing things that don't have to be fixed.
Labels: baseball, home furnishings
