Part 20
Anna passed by her favorite pizza shop on the way home from work the next day, and then did a quick lap around the block in order to return. She decided on the spur of the moment to get a pizza so John would have something to eat. She knew he would be missing dinner by coming to her house to fix the pipe.
With the wonderful smell of the hot pizza in the car, Anna pulled into her garage, went into the house and put out a couple of plates and glasses, napkins and made a little garlic dipping sauce. She put the pizza in the oven on a low temperature. It wasn’t but five minutes later that John arrived with a large tool box in hand.
“John, I know you’re missing dinner, so I got us some pizza,” Anna said.
“You spoiled us with donuts, and now pizza! Wow. We don’t get too many clients like you,” John said.
They sat down at the kitchen table and enjoyed the pizza. John had a hearty appetite and loved the sauce. He again commented on how nice the place looked, and he got up. They barely had time to get into a conversation.
“I’d better move it along, Anna, and get this pipe fixed. Got to get home,” he said.
John took apart the white plastic piping and re-glued the ends, then put them back together and that was that. It took about ten minutes.
“I think that does it. I ran water for a few minutes and nothing is coming out. The seal is dry. But keep an eye on it for the next so many days, okay? Just in case,” he said.
“Okay, I can do that,” Anna said. “Thanks again for fitting this into your schedule. How is the other job going?”
“Oh, it has its problems. The homeowner is one of them, very untrusting. We have to go over and over each little thing and it takes up valuable time, plus after a while it bothers me. I mean, you have to trust at some point in time, don’t you? After a couple of weeks, seeing that we are all hard workers and we are doing a good job, you’d think she would give it up but she doesn’t,” John said.
“I’ve known people like that at my job. They concentrate so much on the negative that the positive just gets pushed out. By the way, did you hear about the new center that they are building?” Anna asked.
“Well, as a matter of fact, that’s one of the reasons why we’re trying to get this job done as fast as possible. We are working on the new center,” he said.
“Really? I thought you just did residential work,” Anna said.
“We more or less morphed into doing residential when a lot of the commercial work dried up. So this is a great opportunity for us and we want to be on time,” John said.
“I’ll let you get home, and thanks so much for coming over,” Anna said.
John backed his truck out of the driveway and went down the street. Anna was more and more intrigued with the center and wanted to know more about it.
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