The Fix
They say it was just happenstance that they ever met—
she a wealthy spinster, he of the lower set.
He liked his women spicy. She was a basket case.
She, aloof and cloistered, considered workmen base.
She had notified the landlord of a problem with her plumbing.
For at least a week, he promised that someone was coming,
so by the time the plumber finally came to fix her pipes,
she was apoplectic—chock full of niggling gripes.
Any other normal man would have been offended
when she hovered and she chattered as he soldered, wrenched and mended,
but he had an even temperament, so he maintained his cool
as she niggled over every move and questioned every tool.
Finally, as she hovered, questioning that and this,
he simply rose and drew her into a passioned kiss
that stifled all her sputterings
and muffled all her mutterings,
until she ceased her protests, surrendered to the fun
and repaid him all his kisses, returning one for one.
It was a simple wedding with little pomp or strife.
And that is how the lady found someone to fix her life.
Prompt words for the day are happenstance, aloof, spicy, notify and basket.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
This reminds me of that old sitcom – can’t remember the name – of the mother and her two daughters and the handyman. Lol.
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One Day at a Time
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Yes! lol
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Fun story!
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Yes it does sound like her plumbing needed attention 😉
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Ha. I knew someone was going to raise that point.
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🙂 🙂
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And NO MORE CLOGGED PIPES! Yay!
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You are soooo naughty.
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Hahaha! Well done.
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Bushboy and Marylin got there before me. Yes, we are naughty, but you have given us a chance to be.
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I knew it was inevitable and yet I didn’t stop!!!
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That makes you just as naughty as the rest of us!
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And, as always, the prompts made me do it. There just always seems to be an obvious solution and I am just the compliant follower of the prompts.
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Sure, sure, whatever you say… Adam said the same thing to his Creator, you know, “This woman You gave me, she made me do it!”
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You’re welcome.
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Ha!
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