This story is part of the January 28 Edition of Good Weekend.See all 16 stories.
A week after Teddy first noticed the loose downpipe, he and Alana were awakened by its erratic banging in a storm.
Credit: Jim Pavlidis
“I’ll fix it tomorrow,” he said.
He would have, too, but the day got away from him.
As the months elapsed, he thought about it often – particularly when it taunted him on windy nights – but still it remained unsecured.
A year later, he saw Alana extending the ladder beneath the downpipe.
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He nudged her out of the way. “I said I’d do it, and I will,” he huffed.
He fixed it – in eight minutes flat.
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