Handwerkergasm
Feb. 9th, 2011 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321So we have 'found' this new Polish handyman who is doing work around our house -- changing locks, fitting a new kitchen tap, assembling Ikea furniture, painting, whittling wood and other whatnots -- and omg, he is hot.
*runs away with face aflame*
*returns to continue post*
Normally, right, you get some paunchy dude with fleshy jowls, jovial jokes and hangy-down trousers. But this guy (let us call him Pavel although that is not his real name) is young, fit and built. He has sinews. He has quick eyes. And he can do everything!! "There's a bit of wood loose here; can you fix that?" "Of course." "Now I know you're not an electrician but would you be able to do something about this loose socket?" "Of course." "I know you're not a builder but could you fix this gutter that's about 1/2 a mile up in the air?" "Of course." You can imagine where I am imagining this could go....
I am thinking of breaking items in the house just so he will need to come back. I just returned from work and he was clearly hot (---) and had taken off his scruffy jumper and revealed a black T-shirt and muscles.
I am, of course, entirely professional about this. "Would you like another cup of coffee? Do you take it with milk?"
*runs away with face aflame*
*returns to continue post*
Normally, right, you get some paunchy dude with fleshy jowls, jovial jokes and hangy-down trousers. But this guy (let us call him Pavel although that is not his real name) is young, fit and built. He has sinews. He has quick eyes. And he can do everything!! "There's a bit of wood loose here; can you fix that?" "Of course." "Now I know you're not an electrician but would you be able to do something about this loose socket?" "Of course." "I know you're not a builder but could you fix this gutter that's about 1/2 a mile up in the air?" "Of course." You can imagine where I am imagining this could go....
I am thinking of breaking items in the house just so he will need to come back. I just returned from work and he was clearly hot (---) and had taken off his scruffy jumper and revealed a black T-shirt and muscles.
I am, of course, entirely professional about this. "Would you like another cup of coffee? Do you take it with milk?"
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Date: 2011-02-09 04:54 pm (UTC)I remember they changed from those hairy flab cracks exposed at each move to young washed men. Now, while I know (from knowing some of those all-rounders) that they just have a go and you might find out how badly they did much later on, I'd say marry Pavel? I see no disadvantage there. Otherwise I agree, more breakage. Or, and this is a realistic happy end, a perfect house and some eye candy to remember.
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Date: 2011-02-09 07:27 pm (UTC)God, and I always thought that bit about running off with the milkman was a total urban myth...
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Date: 2011-02-09 07:50 pm (UTC)I never got that repairman thing; and when ambulance doctors came on night shift, it was just awkward for me. I think paying him though gives you the upper hand and makes it a non-guilty pleasure.
Please don't forget the photos!
ETA: right above yours was another friend's post, first in a while, about lusting after a much younger colleague. It's something in the air. You all get yummy eye candy, I get allergies.
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Date: 2011-02-09 09:17 pm (UTC)*bursts out snorting*
Photos? What photos? I can't lurk in my own house and stalk from behind my own living room curtains...!
(Or can I?)
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Date: 2011-02-09 09:37 pm (UTC)You surely know these, but there are so many and it doesn't hurt to watch them again and they seem very relevant to your interests or rather current situation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLTIowBF0kE&NR=1
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Date: 2011-02-09 09:52 pm (UTC)And oh, is totally distracted by scrubbly-haired icon man who is omg licking his lips.
You kill me.
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Date: 2011-02-09 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-02-11 06:46 pm (UTC)And a post sadly depleted by dead links, but it has links to him and Ted, whom I probably love(d) more: http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/126538.html
So we were talking about the really really good ads from that company that I managed to forget the name of because my only super power is my ad-resistance. And apart from that really funny black guy, older Bruca had made some funny commercials for them in the past. Which I found first when surfing youtube for more of the IM ON A HORSE guy.
And then I found, looking for "Swagger" by the Blue Aeroplanes", that Toyota had really long ads that drew you in against your will as well, the white nerd family.
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Date: 2011-02-13 09:36 pm (UTC)Did he finish the job? You should find another job for him, in order to have him back in his black t-shirt! :D
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Date: 2011-02-09 07:40 pm (UTC)The name would be Paweł. The w sounds actually almost the same as the v, but v is never used in Polish, and the ending 'ł' is as if you were appending a deep English 'oo' to the 'e', just deeper at the beginning and shorter, it's hard to describe...
... And now I'm curious as to his real name... x) Was is Andrzej? Grzegorz? Szymon? Lol!
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Date: 2011-02-09 09:20 pm (UTC)I actually know about the ł from when I tried to teach myself Polish a few years ago. This was before I glommed on to Hindi. Now I wish I'd been more fleißig...
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Date: 2011-02-09 09:35 pm (UTC)Oh, you should have stayed with the Polish, you could have been able to talk to him now! ;;;)
... Out of curiosity, did you have any difficulties with the 'ł'?
Did Hindi work out well?
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Date: 2011-02-09 09:56 pm (UTC)But you're right, when 'Paweł' started talking to his sidekick, I understood not a word but quietly swooned in a corner over the musical deliciousness of his voice...
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Date: 2011-02-09 10:04 pm (UTC)Yes, exactly, like an English w. Quite some Germans seem not to get the letter for some reason.
Cool... Hindi is SO very different, I'm quite impressed you can do that much with it :D But Enid Blyton? Because it's something you know already?
Haha! Sounds alright xD Is the sidekick nice, too?
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Date: 2011-02-09 11:01 pm (UTC)T'sidekick is perfectly nice but keeps rather quiet and looks like your standard handyman: white overalls, round face, paunch. He is there to provide a foil for the startling teh sexy of t'other one.
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Date: 2011-02-09 05:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-09 07:34 pm (UTC)But a handyman who fixes everything!! ("Of course!") omg (Plus, he's so cheap! God, I sound like some dreadful Victorian ma'm.)
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Date: 2011-02-10 08:08 am (UTC)Yes, it IS Hewlett's. I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed that I recognize it (though it is v. nice).
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Date: 2011-02-11 04:10 pm (UTC)Gods, there was a time I had that clip intravenously joined to my brain stem...
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Date: 2011-02-11 04:11 pm (UTC)Er, and your icon??? *splutters*
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Date: 2011-02-11 10:58 pm (UTC)Mine is from Extras! The only time I thought Radcliffe was actually any good was when he was making fun of himself.
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Date: 2011-02-10 02:24 pm (UTC)Is cynic, yes.
*I know
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Date: 2011-02-11 04:14 pm (UTC)I am having txt conversations like this:
"Dear Lobelia, found 60 pounds on table. This was for expenses, right? When do you want me to come back to cut the ivy? Regards, Handyman."
"Could you do the ivy at same time as paving the yard? When would be good weatherwise? Can you source the paving stones?"
How such innocuous exchanges can delight... *runs away* (And you too recognised the bum, right?? *points at
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Date: 2011-02-10 06:53 pm (UTC)When I read that - well, I totally second pictures. Totally. Don't deprive the rest of us who don't have a Polish handyman around! *g* Or at least look for a lookalike online so that we can at least drool over an approximation. ;-)
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Date: 2011-02-11 04:16 pm (UTC)*is doomed*