by Bill Holton from the July 22, 2024 issue
Tagline: When Lauren hired a handyman to help fix her lawn mower, a classic name mix-up ended up leading her to another handsome helper.
Observations: This was a classic mistaken identity story, so well done. You can see how the mistake continues to be made very naturally. It's explained that there's a one hour minimum, which makes perfect sense, so that's why Lauren continues to find stuff for him to do. And when you read it the second time, it's really funny! Especially the reveal.
"I...I thought you were the handyman," she stammered. "You waved."
"I wave at a lot of people," Bill said. "Not many wave back. So I stopped to introduce myself, and when you told me your lawn mower wasn't working..."
Hilarious!
Then, that epilogue...
..."Not only [did she pay me anyway], but the guy gave me a double tip. I told them, "But I didn't do anything,' and you wouldn've thought I made the funniest joke, the way they laughed..."
10/10!
Photo by Ivan Radic via Flickr CC license
9 comments:
Loved it, lol. The humor was great. ❤️😀
Oh, Kate, I was waiting for your comments on this story.
I loved, loved, loved this story. Best one I've read in a long time and I've read some really good ones.
I totally feel for him being the handyman so it was a wonderful and funny surprised to find out he wasn't. Bill Holton did a great job with an awesome premise.
That was supposed to be fell, not feel. Sorry.
This was such a cute story. Loved the mix up. Very well written.
This was such a fab story!
Liz
I love when there's humor in a story!
Sorry it takes me so long. I'm a born procrastinator!
Yes, very well written!
Agreed!
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