Men, said Jessica

[flemmings]

Workman finished staining my stairs and very nice they look. But. He said he'd cut up the wood from the old deck and didn't. Said he'd dig up the mulberry bush and didn't. And I'd asked him to take my watch to a very specific watchmaker to get a new battery, and he assured me he knew how to change watch batteries, and then- like several other watchmakers in the past- couldn't get the thing apart so sorry, here's your watch back and it still doesn't run.

Ah well. I may some day be limber enough to go to the Duff Mall myself.