Dryer repair day is a good dryer repair day when the dryer repairman is hot, tattooed, Russian, and funny.

There were initial bad vibes, since there was much paperwork confusion and hubbub, thanks to Maytag.com’s terrible online service reservation system.

I didn’t catch his name, but I’ll call him Sergei. We stood in the garage (home to the dryer) as he called his office to clear up the aforementioned hubbub. As we waited, Sergei on hold, his eyes wandered to my elderly relative’s train set, which snakes around the interior perimeter of the garage.

Sergei immediately transformed from steely-jawed service guy to wide-eyed kid.

“Oooooooooooooooh, this is so nice,” he actually cooed. “It’s like a leettle movie city!”

Ice=broken and we had a good laugh as he fake-billed me $1000 for the repair work.