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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:13 pm
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It felt good to be working. Jobs hadn't been exactly dry lately, but they'd all been small ones, little ten-minute fixes that Kadota almost felt bad about charging his standard rates for. Almost. He and his Pokémon still had to eat, after all.
So when he'd gotten a phone call from one Andre Dubois that sounded like a heftier gig than usual, he agreed to show up promptly the next morning, tools in tow. The name seemed vaguely familiar, but he couldn't identify it immediately in conjunction with the voice. The place was off his normal range — out in one of the prettier, high-end areas of Camphoreon, surrounded by lush trees and in a quiet neighborhood. The house was large, too, and meticulously detailed in a Victorian style, with a garden to match. Nice.
Kadota retrieved his toolbox from the back of his truck, and strode up the steps to the front door. It was graced with a heavy brass knocker well in keeping with the rest of the place, and no immediately-visible doorbell. So he put the knocker to the use it was intended, then took a small step back, and waited for Andre (or maybe his wife, or even his staff, this place was nice enough that he might actually have someone on call, Kadota guessed) to come to the door.
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:54 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 9:02 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:20 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:16 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:49 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:19 am
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:44 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:29 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:59 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:16 am
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"I can do that. It'd take, mmm, maybe half a day? But you may not need it, so let's worry about that if a shim doesn't do the job." Kadota waved it off, jotting down notes.
"Eh, usually they put them there when the place doesn't have a basement. And sure, that's not a problem. Don't want to track dust into your place." He blinked, grasping the nature of one of the requests. "So the garage door works manually, but the automatic door opener doesn't work, then? Well, that's good. As long as there's nothing really weird in the electrical, that should be a pretty quick fix."
He moseyed over to take a look at the water heater, then knelt down and fiddled with the controls, listening. "Sounds like the spark for the pilot light isn't working. I'll take a look — might just need to be tinkered with, might need to be replaced. If it needs to be replaced, I'll have to go get the parts, so maybe a couple of hours there." Standing back up, he finished the last of his notes, then tore off the sheet and handed it to Andre.
Everything was listed, broken down in detail, with a range of potential prices on the things that would take more work. If Andre did the math, it would be a fair price for Kadota's labor, with the parts priced at expected cost. "You say the word and I'll get started."
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