My Day With The Tradies...

15th March 2010

43rd Day in Melbourne

Hot

Okie, for those who are new to Melbourne (like myself), gals here are crazy over tradies...who are tradies? They are the labouring he-man, such as Carpenters, Tilers, Painters, Builders, Plumbers etc...In Singapore, they are usually the Bangladeshis, usually...Tradies are hot in the dating industry and trust me, their pay is way higher than the bankers and professionals...Seriously, this is something that i really don't understand...But as i speak to more and more Aussie gals, i realized that they like the feeling of being protected by the huge muscle-men, and their ability to fix anything and everything is simply fascinating and full of security..

Well today, i finally had my first-hand experience with a Aussie tradie...Handy H, the tradie, called this morning saying that he'll come over to our place to do the fixing and i said ok. Apparently, it's a Father-Son team, so we have senior and junior tradies knocking on our door..Sweet! They do not look exactly like those muscle men that i've imagined and their toughness got diminished even before they came into our house cause' Minn asked them to remove their boots...I mean, how manly can they be without their manly boots?? They just gave her the "look" but removed their shoes nevertheless..

Well, i must say they're really good at fixing the door (3 doors to be exact), 1 fly screen and 1 mirror...I'm surprised...seems really easy when they did it and i was thinking to myself "I can do it myself too!"...but then, which gal is in the right mind to dirty her hands when you have the guys to do it for you? It turns out that they are fixing more things than are stated in the letter, so i'm seriously crossing my fingers that the agents do not charge it to our account..I can't afford to pay Handy H $80 just to fix a door!

Hmm...am i attracted to tradies after today? Well, i suppose not, but who knows in the future..hehe