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Tenderfeet will find natives shockingly nosy. The plumber may ask personal, pointed questions of new arrivals. The auto-body repairman may insist on discovering how one likes local living before he repairs the station wagon that hit the deer. A simple request to have the Sunday paper set aside at the variety store may bring on a village history about how things have always been done and will never, if God remains in ruburban Heaven, ever change...
...featured guest at the table last year was a pinball repairman who explained which machines gave him the most trouble and told a number of entertaining repair anecdotes...
...what Detroit has to offer. Moe drives a Chevrolet Corvette, but he admits, somewhat sheepishly, to owning a twelve-year-old Sony TV. If it ever wears out, he'll buy American. Meanwhile, Moe's philosophy gives no quarter to visitors like the copy-machine repairman who groused about having to park by the Little League field across the street. Said Moe: "If he doesn't like it, let him walk...
...left the center to return for our exam, our car ran over an enormous nail on the highway, which ripped right through one of the tires. There was no spare in the car, and no repairman was available until the next day. We were in a remote area, and there was no other choice for us but to spend the night in a nearby motel. Only today was the tire repaired, and so we are a day late for your final...
...more, which could be an extraordinary feat in this economy. The Czechs were once famous throughout Europe for their strict orderliness and scrupulous honesty, but that reputation is now tarnished. Everyone cuts a corner here, steals something there. Lubomir, for example, is a 34-year-old boiler repairman in the city of Brno. His monthly salary is $350. He works about five hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On Thursdays he sells on the black market spare parts that he has filched on the job. Then he spends a long weekend at his two-bedroom country house some 40 miles from...