Thu, 11.16 pm - watch pipe burst in bathroom.
11.17 pm scamper to gather buckets (2 nos.) to hold gushing water
11.18 pm - change and empty bucket
11.19 pm - change and empty bucket
11.20 pm - phone guard for help
(rinse, repeat till 11.30 pm, throw in SOS call to plumber-too-far-away-to-help, and decision to not call husband-too-far-away-to-help)
11.31 pm - get entire building's water source shut off
11.45 pm till Friday, 6.40 am - dream about water
6.40 to 6.45 am - whine all about it to suddenly wide-awake husband
6.45 am till 9.45 am (i) plead with plumbers (3 nos.) to come over asap
(ii) pray that neighbours don't break down my door and yell at me with morning breath
(iii) join work conference call and sound intelligent
(iv) pay plumber and resist urge to hug him
10 am - brush, shower, rush to work
3.34 pm - breathe, tell the world about it.
11.17 pm scamper to gather buckets (2 nos.) to hold gushing water
11.18 pm - change and empty bucket
11.19 pm - change and empty bucket
11.20 pm - phone guard for help
(rinse, repeat till 11.30 pm, throw in SOS call to plumber-too-far-away-to-help, and decision to not call husband-too-far-away-to-help)
11.31 pm - get entire building's water source shut off
11.45 pm till Friday, 6.40 am - dream about water
6.40 to 6.45 am - whine all about it to suddenly wide-awake husband
6.45 am till 9.45 am (i) plead with plumbers (3 nos.) to come over asap
(ii) pray that neighbours don't break down my door and yell at me with morning breath
(iii) join work conference call and sound intelligent
(iv) pay plumber and resist urge to hug him
10 am - brush, shower, rush to work
3.34 pm - breathe, tell the world about it.
7 comments:
LOL..how frantic incidents of our life can be turned around to be funny! Really nice of your neighbors to understand - or did noone figure out the cause? ;)
Hi Pragyan :) Thankfully no one complained. I think they were just being patient - plus I realised that a lot of the people in that line are retired older folk who were not in a hurry to leave for work.
join work conference call and sound intelligent :D
it made all the difference to an otherwise plain topic
There's something for you in my blog!
http://sorisha.blogspot.com/2012/06/award-time-thank-you.html
The incredible efficiency of Mumbai. The plumber he came, he saw and he conquered, all at the crack of dawn? In Delhi, asambhav.
OK, time for another post, wouldn't you say?
Frantic frantic frantic
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