Monday, April 11, 2011

Hello carpenter


Relocating home brings its own challenges. My new house has huge windows with sunlight penetrating through the rooms.
The first reaction of my wife on entering the apartment was: "Go and arrange for curtains."
The carpenter was summoned. He surveyed the rooms and said: "You need three curtain rods and nails. Do you have them?"
"No."
"Then come with me to the hardware shop," he dragged me.
My wife was too happy to push me out with him.
The shopping spree over, the carpenter had nails, cutting saw and lengthy rods that can stretch up to a full room.
We came out of the shop and the guy suddenly remembered something.
"Hold all this," he thrust the things on my hand and vanished from the middle of the road.
After five minutes, he screamed from the shop: "You proceed home. I will go to another shop."
Embarrassed, I looked around praying no friend sees me. Fortunately, no one did. But everyone on the road gave me strange looks. The lengthy rods were uneasy to carry and I could hear horn sounds all around. I decided to hold the rods vertically like a flag pole.
When I reached my building, the rods did not fit into the elevator and three people were running away from me, looking worriedly at the sharp cutter.
Seeing me as a carpenter, my wife laughed out. 
Thankfully, she also had a taste of the medicine, when the worker arrived, finished his work and told her, "Ma'am, can you please clean up all this mess?"

27 comments:

  1. Lol! but yes when we hire workmen they leave half the work to us. I too went through all these when i made my home 5 years back. Now after 5 years i run behind them for maintenance and they ignore all these as small jobs.

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  2. nice we too shifting to new home in June. Send me wishes that i does not have to go through d same.

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  3. We do fifty percent of the work and pay them a hefty sum too, Ramesh! Then we decide not to call him anymore but after 3 months we call him back and he knows it!

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  4. Not only carpenters do this.. call an electrician or a plumber.. you will end up cleaning the mess! Cleaning is an additional job and does not come free!

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  5. Yes, this is what carpenters do. Sometimes, they leave behind unfinished work for us to finish off too :).

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  6. ha ha...i'm supposed to shift to my new home in vaikasi,, hope chittirai doesn't end..i dread shifting houses..

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  7. This everyone might have faced..not only carpenter, people who do such manual jobs all have this tendency

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  8. Well atleast he finished the job...here in kovai, they start one week...disappear for a month and then after a hefty cell bill he will come drunk and do a shoddy job..

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  9. The joys of relocation! But you must be glad to have your family with you.

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  10. wow..new house!. When are you calling us for house warming? Boss I missed watching you with all that stuff... I could not help smiling reading your post...

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  11. The joy, pleasure and happiness of moving into a new house is much greater than some of these small inconveniences.
    Cheers and always give priority to the EAST while arranging your furniture and sleeping area.

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  12. nice coincidence friend..my Bangalore house is under carpenter work now.Luckily I a not there ,otherwise all the mess they create and stylishly walk away is so irritating:))

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  13. hahaha...I guess that's how families work! division of labour :)

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  14. well doing half the work is called helping :P
    1.when u bathe a child its more of we bathing.
    2.when u teach a woman to drive its more of we driving..
    3.when u help a kid for project work...its we who are doing it...
    helping can be heavy at times ;)

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  15. We have been quite lucky as far as carpenters are concerned, we had all the doors windows, our staircase of our house done by a very good carpenter. I have lost his number and I am still waiting for him to call us, so that I can trust him to do a few more things for us.

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  16. Hey! Where is the new home? Congrats ya! Hows you?

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  17. Ah! so u have moved ur family with you!! That's good :) and lol @ the incident!!! Your wife got the taste of the same medicine herself ;)

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  18. OMG ...these carpenters...don't remind me of them.
    I recently got some work done at home, and the tough time I had with their tantrums...

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  19. How lovely to have so much sunlight streaming through the windows. All the best in your new home.

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  20. Hello Rameshji!
    I was lost in my own world! So was far away from blogging...:(
    Now that i'm back...i hope to be here...in the world of all wonderful people like you!
    Well shifting house and settling things back is no easy!!!
    But glad u have ur family with u now!!! :)
    Enjoy! Cheers!

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  21. ha ha...i can understand how difficult it is to shift a house. Happy to know that you r with your family ...enjoy!!!

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  22. hmm....yes....she get her share too....good to read you again.

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  23. ha haaa haaaaaaaaaaa..very nice..Men always want to have their share of fun too!
    love the post!

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  24. Sharing...like it should be. I am sure u cleaned up the mess for your wife. Did you? Did you?

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