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The Wait

130319-IMG_7531The routine goes as follows: you find something is broken in your home. You inform the front desk, who in turn informs the workers. You give a time frame for when it’s convenient for you to have the workers come. You wait. And when everything goes properly, the workers will show up eventually (though most likely not at the time you specified, or the time you’re waiting for them), and the problems get solved. That’s when you’re lucky.

But then, things always change. These days, I find things rather reversed. These days, it’s the front desk calling me on my way to breakfast (it’s 7 am in the morning). They tell me, “You’ve got a problem in your home.”
“I do?” I say.
“Yes. A Leak.”
“Nothing’s wet in my apartment. Though I had a leak a couple weeks ago.”
“Yes, but the office underneath your apartment has water coming down the walls.”
“Oh. I see.”
“So, can we send in a worker to fix this problem?”
“Sure,” I say, and quickly tell them that I’ll be home pretty much all day, but that I’d appreciate it if the worker comes before 4 pm (because this girl also has plans and other things to do).
“Ok,” they say. “We’ll send someone before then.”
So, I wait. And wait. And wait even a bit more. Nothing all day. Then suddenly, it’s mid afternoon the following day, when without warning a couple of people show up at my door, demanding to take a look around my bathroom. And they even scratch the plaster off my wall in the hallway. And they promise they’ll be back the next day, 9 am to basically take the wall apart.

Of course, next day 9 am comes and goes without nobody ever showing up (as was to be expected), and here I am, slightly annoyed, wondering what exactly these people mean when they say “today” or “tomorrow”. Meanwhile, the walls still need fixing and I’m still waiting …

… to be continued …

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