{"id":2052,"date":"2011-10-19T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:18:39","slug":"the-handyman-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"The Handyman Cometh&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least he said that he was coming.&nbsp; My husband is not&nbsp;&#8220;handy.&#8221; He&#8217;s better just going to work and paying the bills than attempting anything remotely &#8220;hands on.&#8221; So we have had our share of handymen over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Some have been disasters &#8211; out of work engineers who despise small jobs, but need to make some spare change until the unemployment cheque comes.&nbsp; These are the ones that open packages of nuts and bolts, adapters etc and just leave the wrappings every where for me to tidy up &#8211; urrrghhh.<\/p>\n<p>Others may have been, in another life, politicians, ministers, run-of-the-mill &#8220;soapboxers&#8221; who would rather talk, politics, religion, or any other controversial topic &#8211; generally espousing a view which is the antithesis of mine &#8211;&nbsp;rather than getting on with the work.&nbsp; Another urrrghhh.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been the gems. These are the down to earth guys, who are so organized, can fix anything and have fabulous personalities. One was the best comedian, I have ever heard. Unfortunately, these people always go on to better things!!<\/p>\n<p>So to day I will be meeting my 7th or 8th handyman &#8211; at least I hope that I will &#8211; he did say he was coming.<\/p>\n<p>I know that there are female handy persons.&nbsp; I called one once, only to find that there was a list of things that she &#8220;didn&#8217;t do.&#8221;&nbsp; Somehow the guys don&#8217;t seem to mind taking on the challenges &#8211; yes I guess that there is still room for &#8220;macho&#8221; in this world.<\/p>\n<p>So, here I am at 9:30am waiting for Godot &#8211; actually that really isn&#8217;t his name \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; It&#8217;s &#8220;The Odd Job Guy.&#8221; No relation I hope to Odd Job in the James Bond series.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that I could pick up some knitting and at least feel useful&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have a productive day<\/p>\n<p>Carol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least he said that he was coming.&nbsp; My husband is not&nbsp;&#8220;handy.&#8221; He&#8217;s better just going to work and paying the bills than attempting anything remotely &#8220;hands on.&#8221; So we have had our share of handymen over the years. Some have been disasters &#8211; out of work engineers who despise small jobs, but need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}