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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

How Do You Say MAINTENANCE with a Korean Accent










I guess, he would sound something like the character "Long Duck Dong," from Sixteen Candles minus the chime of giant cymbals everytime he appeared.
Every morning the Binats and I take a walk. Sometimes we go to the store, the playground or we loop around the various courts pushing a mini-plastic shopping cart and the BIG WHEEL. Today, I noticed coming around the bend to our court, a big white truck parked in one of the spaces in front of our house. Ah, maintenance . . . As I approached, I thought I had been mistaken, but the sound of music coming from the open livingroom window. It was, it was Jingle Bell Rock. I openned the door, yelled hello and it was indeed Maa'naance. I had forgotten that I called about our lousy outlets that couldn't seem too hold any plugs, especially the vacum nor the hair dryer; two crucial appliences to a housewife. He had turned our radio on and changed it the station from NPR to the Christmas station.

I showed him which plugs were giving me the problem. However, everytime I call and they come and everytime I end up feeling like an idiot for making them come out. You see, he explained my problem wasn't the outlets, but my foreign made products, from IKEA. Lol, none of the items were from Ikea. But in anycase, all I needed to do was widen the prongs on the plugs so that they would stay. I guess, I should have thought of that myself. Even though he was right, I still succeeded in finding two outlets that indeed needed replacing. Maybe instead of being a hyperchondriac, I am hyper-fixiat.

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