A Pretty Good Guy

Well, I had a nice Sunday.  We just kind of puttered around after the meeting, reading and napping.  Tomorrow is a holiday for me, but I'm going to go in for four hours because they need the work done.  Then I'm going to take the kids to lunch, and then I'll probably come home and take a nap!  Thomas isn't off tomorrow, though.

Thursday night I got a frantic phone call from Sharon, across the street.  She's a widow, around 60 years old, and not in good health.  She sounded panicky and said she needed Thomas to come over.  Her washing machine wouldn't stop filling up with water even though she'd shut it off and it was flooding her house. 

So Thomas ran over and managed to get the water shut off.  He swept out the water, took our shop vac over and vacuumed where it had started going into the dining room from the kitchen and had gotten on some of the carpet, and then checked out the washing machine to see if he could figure it out.  While he was looking at it it started back up on its own and started filling up again!!  He shut off the water again after unplugging the machine and then had to siphon the water out.  He told her the machine was definitely gone.  Something was burned out and that's why it didn't want to shut off on its own.  He took it out of the house for her and to the curb for the trash collector.

While we were over there Sharon said she was going to need to get a refrigerator soon, too, because hers was starting to leak underneath and wasn't getting as cold as it should.  It was like 20 years old.  Thomas asked her what she could afford.  She is on a fixed income.  Her son lives in Florida and her daughter, who lives in Louisville, works full time and only comes by about once or twice a month to take Sharon to get groceries and to her appointments and things.

So Thomas called the appliance dealer where we bought our refrigerator this year.  He likes one salesman there in particular who really gave us a good deal.  Then Friday he and Eler Beth went over there and talked to the guy in person.  After Thomas told him who he was looking for the appliances for the guy just kept taking the price down and down and down.  He called Sharon to see if she liked the deal, drove back over to get her check, thenwent back over to give it to them and arrange delivery.  I guess they have inventory that they need to get rid of before taxes, but listen to this!  She ended up getting a brand new Frigidaire refrigerator and a brand new washing machine for $705.85!!!  Delivery and set up included and they took away the old appliances!!  Normally the delivery is $40.00; $50.00 if you have an old one to take away, but they waived that even after knocking the price down.  I'm not sure about the washing machine, but the refrigerator's original price was over $800.00 on its own.  She called me over yesterday to see them! 

I have a really good guy!!  I think I'll keep him!!!