Stovemaster

My oven stopped working a couple of days ago. I discovered about it when I was trying to roast a couple of marinated chicken drumsticks. After half an hour of waiting, the chicken looked exactly the same as before.

Today, I finally remembered to call the university’s home maintenance hotline and they sent a guy over to check it out. They sent this really old guy, who looked like he popped out of a Christmas story to come take a look at my problem.

He was really helpful as he took apart my stove and told me about how the whole thing functioned. It was really cool to see how my stove, looking pretty primitive on the exterior was really a very technologically advanced piece of machinery. Oh, and I also found out what the bottom tray of my oven was for…. Sear-cooking meat. Cool.

The guy was so helpful and informative that I was tempted to tip him. But I don’t think it is university policy to tip its employees. I was more afraid of him being offended with my measly tip than anything. Things ironed out as he made his way to the door on his own, no awkward cues for me to tip him or anything like that. Problem solved. Stove fixed.