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I’m not into sports – I don’t revere actors and musicians as gods.  The closest I get to hero worship is Mike Holmes.

This big, gruff, teddy bear in overalls is one of the few people I truly believe in.  I mean, he fixes things.  That’s pretty G.D. important.  And to top it off he helps people who really need it.

There are dedicated members of the cloth who can’t claim that last part.  (Many of them Southern Televangelists, but we won’t get into that….) 

I wish there was a fan club I could join, walk around with buttons on my jacket and everything.

Mike straddles two worlds, Contractor and Television star.  But he’s first and foremost a Contractor.  He tries to play things up for TV a little bit but he never comes off as anything other then a regular guy.  Nothing more special then some guy on the bus home after work.  Hell, you might even say “simple”.  To Mike, things are either Right, or they’re Not.  That’s simple.

And Mike makes things Right.

Because he’s always the average Joe, Mike gets mad.

Andy Jones, of CODCO fame, once told a story of religion in Newfoundland outports when he was younger.  Because the villages were small and remote Priests came by boat every few weeks to give a sermon.  There would be two.  The first talked of God’s love for everyone and to follow the righteous path, etc..  And everyone would sit dutifully by and listen.  The second, and usually older, would condemn them all as sinners and spew forth stories of fire and brimstone.

“And that!  That was the one you were waiting for.”

This week Lien on Me was broadcasted and it showed Mike at his fiery best.  It was obvious just how much was wrong with the house.  It not only tip-toed past the line of “incompetence” but just about jumped up and did a whole Riverdance jig in the land of “Criminal Negligence.”

This is what I’ve come to think of as The Terror.  This is what makes me want to rip down every piece of drywall in the house and look behind it.  Just to make sure everything’s ok.  Just to make sure my house wasn’t put together by someone that would make Mike mad.

Every action, has a equal and opposite reaction.

Every fear, has a equal and opposite counter-fear.

What if the guy I get to do something is The Guy That Would Get Mike Mad???
I’m thinking of calling that The Anti-Terror.