Brush with a celebrity (sorta)
A couple of weeks ago we had a visit from the Dish man, aka the cable repair man. We have satellite and apparently some trees found it necessary to grow into the path of our latitude and longitude broadband. We lost all viewing pleasure of the more critical channels in our home…Nick Jr. and Cartoon Network. LOL
We were told the technician would be out to our home anytime between 8am and 1pm. Great! Stuck inside all day essentially, playing the waiting game. Much to our surprise the phone rings at 8:15am. It’s the Dish Lady’s voice informing us that the “Dish” man would be at our home in less than 20 minutes! WooHoo!
William shows up and knows just what to do to fix the problem and is done in about 20minutes flat! Nice! He was a nice man, Genuine. Warm and Fuzzy. I couldn’t help but feel like he looked like someone I knew though, but I just couldn’t place it. William continued to walk in and out of our living room passing through the kitchen each time. Not really a problem, but we were making breakfast. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon and toast…not our usual fare, but my step-punk was with us, so we went all out.
William was such a nice man, and I felt rather bad for cooking in front of him and all…so when he came back by for the last time I asked, “William, wanna stay for breakfast?” I’m not sure what I expected him to say but much to my surprise (and everyone else’s as well) he accepted! I thought for sure the Hubs was gonna flip his pancake over this one…but he was ok with it, another surprise!
William, his wife and 19 year old son had just moved here from Arizona. The wife and boy were none too thrilled about the move especially since the highly educated wife could not find a job for the first 3 months. Turns out she is a bonafide, certified Yoga/Pilates instructor (for hobby) and when the little shack of a studio she had been cleaning for some extra cash had an opening for an instructor, she applied. Apparently, the owners took one look at her credentials and were mortified that she was cleaning their toilets! Needless to say, she is now their star instructor and gaining quite the fan following in the NE Portland area (not my words…his. You can tell he was very proud of his little tulip though). Yup. “When mama’s not happy, ain’t nobody happy”, and William was just pleased as punch that his tulip was beginning to turn the corner onto happy valley.
William was working on a little happiness himself. The guys back at the Dish base camp have been teasing him about his vest he wears. It’s a fishing vest, you know with all the pockets and such. Well, Williams is never in search of a tool or having to trapse back and forth to the Dish van for one. Nope. They are just about all housed in that there vest. The hubs made mention of his unique vest and donned his seal of approval (as a man who works “in the field” himself). William says he doesn’t mind the jokes from fellow Dish men, because in the end…he’ll be laughing all the way to retirement when the phone man, electric man and all other field worker men buy his vest; appropriately monogrammed of course.
It was a very nice visit. And you know what he said to me as he left our home? He thanked me for the hospitality, good eats and good company and that he was going to be sure pay it forward today.
Nice!
Oh, and this is who he looked EXACTLY like:
Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band. Country band. Maybe it was all a hoax of some sort, maybe I will be coming to a television near you in the near future. Some sort of Pay it forward/hidden camera across America show or something. Whatev.
I will tell you this, if that WAS Zac Brown…he sure can fix a Dish!
We were told the technician would be out to our home anytime between 8am and 1pm. Great! Stuck inside all day essentially, playing the waiting game. Much to our surprise the phone rings at 8:15am. It’s the Dish Lady’s voice informing us that the “Dish” man would be at our home in less than 20 minutes! WooHoo!
William shows up and knows just what to do to fix the problem and is done in about 20minutes flat! Nice! He was a nice man, Genuine. Warm and Fuzzy. I couldn’t help but feel like he looked like someone I knew though, but I just couldn’t place it. William continued to walk in and out of our living room passing through the kitchen each time. Not really a problem, but we were making breakfast. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon and toast…not our usual fare, but my step-punk was with us, so we went all out.
William was such a nice man, and I felt rather bad for cooking in front of him and all…so when he came back by for the last time I asked, “William, wanna stay for breakfast?” I’m not sure what I expected him to say but much to my surprise (and everyone else’s as well) he accepted! I thought for sure the Hubs was gonna flip his pancake over this one…but he was ok with it, another surprise!
William, his wife and 19 year old son had just moved here from Arizona. The wife and boy were none too thrilled about the move especially since the highly educated wife could not find a job for the first 3 months. Turns out she is a bonafide, certified Yoga/Pilates instructor (for hobby) and when the little shack of a studio she had been cleaning for some extra cash had an opening for an instructor, she applied. Apparently, the owners took one look at her credentials and were mortified that she was cleaning their toilets! Needless to say, she is now their star instructor and gaining quite the fan following in the NE Portland area (not my words…his. You can tell he was very proud of his little tulip though). Yup. “When mama’s not happy, ain’t nobody happy”, and William was just pleased as punch that his tulip was beginning to turn the corner onto happy valley.
William was working on a little happiness himself. The guys back at the Dish base camp have been teasing him about his vest he wears. It’s a fishing vest, you know with all the pockets and such. Well, Williams is never in search of a tool or having to trapse back and forth to the Dish van for one. Nope. They are just about all housed in that there vest. The hubs made mention of his unique vest and donned his seal of approval (as a man who works “in the field” himself). William says he doesn’t mind the jokes from fellow Dish men, because in the end…he’ll be laughing all the way to retirement when the phone man, electric man and all other field worker men buy his vest; appropriately monogrammed of course.
It was a very nice visit. And you know what he said to me as he left our home? He thanked me for the hospitality, good eats and good company and that he was going to be sure pay it forward today.
Nice!
Oh, and this is who he looked EXACTLY like:
Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band. Country band. Maybe it was all a hoax of some sort, maybe I will be coming to a television near you in the near future. Some sort of Pay it forward/hidden camera across America show or something. Whatev.
I will tell you this, if that WAS Zac Brown…he sure can fix a Dish!
What a great story! Being nice to workers in your home is a great thing. And it sounds like he provided you with LOTS of conversation.
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