Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Ben found a guy on the internet and invited him over to his house... his wife was disappointed

Episode Date: April 28, 2026

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I've said many times I'm not a very handy person when it comes to stuff around the house. I can do a flat pack. You know, I can follow instructions. Although sometimes the instructions, I really feel like they were written by someone who hates you. Yeah. You know? This is what happened to me over the weekend because my wife's like my, well, my daughter had got like a new desk slash vanity sort of set up with drawers and the mirror and stuff. And my wife's like, and then there was two sort of bedside tables we got for the kids as well.

So my wife's like, can you have a crack at the flat? I'm like, yeah, yeah. And then my daughter and I got the stuff out. Now, admittedly we'd been out dinner, I'd had a couple of beers. Like, let's get into this flat pack. Great conditions. This is Saturday night, and I was about 10 o'clock and I was like, yeah, we'll have a little look now.

10 p.m. Geez. I don't look now because my daughter was excited about it. We put all the stuff out. I'm like, there is so much stuff. Like every jaw's got multiple bits. There's all these latches. I'm like, the instructions look tricky.

I was like, whew. I always see on the instructions there's always a smiling guy with a screwdriver. and I've never once smiled holding that screwdriver and yeah my wife's like yeah can sort it and I'm like yeah I can sort it I think she ended up going to be and my daughter and I are like okay we can have a look at this and I was like oh it's pretty tricky

and my door's like yeah it's pretty tricky she's also like you've had a few beers is this a good idea I was like there's got to be someone there's got to be people that love doing this thing there's got to be people online so I got my phone and look and I was like oh yeah people flat pack and you put your little you put your little job up on this sort of website

thing this temporary thing you know enroll and put it up there put the photo up there and then And suddenly I was like, I'll probably hear from people in the morning, suddenly, ding, ding, phone starts to come back, people going, hey. At 10pm on Saturday night. People Keel like, I can do your job. What, you know, how about this price?

Someone else goes, I can do the job out, but this price. I'm like, oh, they're lower than the last person, these guys. And then the third one came through. I was like, that's a great price. Do they see each other haggling? I don't know if they do. Right. And we're just trying to race to the bottom.

Yeah. And I was like, well, this is great. And then my daughter was like, this guy will do it. And I'm like, texting back. I'm like, sounds good. when can you do it? He's like, how about tomorrow morning? I'm like, great, great.

So he came on over. On a Sunday morning? Yeah, came on over. Like how early? Oh, lucky it was like, I'll be over like 9, 9.30. I'm like, yeah, sweet, no worries. And then did it and we're doing a wonderful job. I'm like, hey, mate, well you're here.

Can you do these two bedside tables as well? He's like, yeah, no worries at all. I was like, yeah. How long did it take him? Oh, not long. I mean, he did say, because he looked at the pitch, he was like, and I was quite glad to hear him say. It was a bit tricky than I thought it was going to be.

I'm like, there you go. There you go, man. That's what I thought, mate. I thought I tried doing it after dinner. Wait, so was your wife Amanda at home on Sunday morning when this guy came over? No, but she came back at some stage and she was like, what's that? The guy doing here and I'm like, oh, look, this is the guy who's come to help put the, put together thing. You said, to me, just sort it.

I've sorted it. And he's doing the bedside. It's a great, great hack if you ever want. I mean, obviously, got to pay money and stuff, but it's a great hack. Nice. People that will do things that you don't want to do. Yeah, good on you. For me, it's not like, I can figure it out, but it's the time.

Yeah. Because, like, we've got a couple of chairs. We've got a couple of chairs just sitting in our house, and I'm like, I'm going to get to that. You're not scrolling Instagram anyway. Just including it as part of his hobby. So real heroes out there, guys. You just got to find them. You should have got him over at 10pm, though, while Amanda was asleep.

I know. He probably would have come home. Oh, yeah. She would never have known. Stick a guy into the house. my wife said i say okay just be quiet don't use a drill use your hands