{"id":88,"date":"2009-08-07T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/08\/07\/waiting_on_godot_to_repair_the_dishwasher\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:42:23","slug":"waiting_on_godot_to_repair_the_dishwasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/08\/07\/waiting_on_godot_to_repair_the_dishwasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting on Godot to Repair the Dishwasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sometimes, I hate being right. We just got a call and the repair guy is on his way. The time? 4:46 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Debbie came through her dental surgery yesterday with flying colors (whatever that means), thanks to excellent pharmaceuticals and, I&#8217;m sure, some TLC from yours truly. She&#8217;s now in the back yard tending to the planter; I wonder if it would be pushing my luck to see if she wants to mow the yard for me?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we&#8217;re having to stick close to home today because the dishwasher repairman is supposed to drop by at his convenience. Sears informed us that he would be by sometime between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Does that sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to know the lucky sonuvagun who&#8217;s given that schedule, and then has the service call actually occur at 8:00 a.m. Have <i>any<\/i> of you ever experienced that? I mean, <i>somebody<\/i> has to be first on the schedule, but it&#8217;s never us.*<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that since we have to be somewhere at 6:00 p.m., the guy will show up around 5:30 and take an hour to do the job.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"smaller\">*Now that I think about it, I believe we were, indeed, first on the schedule, a long time ago. And, as it so happened, something came up and we had to attend to other early morning business and missed that service call. As Basil Fawlty would say, <em>typical&#8230;just typical<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as somebody eventually wins the lottery, somebody is first on the appliance repair schedule. It&#8217;s not us in either case, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}