… only to realize that this was probably one of the worst mornings I’ve woken up to in a long while. I had a rude awakening, not just so to speak, but in the literal sense of the meaning. That rude awakening was a knock on my door, announcing a most unpleasant affair: “Your room is flooding!” Yep, and that’s exactly what was happening. By the time I reached my front door, water was streaming in from underneath, and the first thing that crossed my mind was: I wonder when this is going to happen to me!

See, it wasn’t my apartment that actually was having the problem (though I got my share of water, too)! But it was the second apartment on our floor to get flooded within two months. A pipe had broken in my next door neighbor’s bathroom, and now the water was flooding the hall, my apartment, other people’s apartments, and of course stood several inches deep in my next-door neighbor’s apartment. So, who am I to complain? Just equipped myself with towels, and buckets and mops, and off we went, trying to save what was there to save! Too bad, at that moment it didn’t even cross my mind to get out my camera for some pictures to post (though I picked up the precious thing to get it out of the water).

Anyways, everything is fixed again now, and looking at the bright side of life: my apartment got a thorough floor cleaning today. But who knows when the next accident will happen, and whose apartment it will be …