Fairly self-evident
I’d just settled down in front of my computer after being busy with nonsense all morning to actually get some work done when a tenant franticly called me.
She had water dripping down from her ceiling at a fairly fast clip so I ran upstairs to see what the matter was.
That was the start of another two-day odyssey with water, plumbers, and workmen.
We needed to get into the apartment above her, but I had the keys to that. Or so I thought. It turns out that the owner either changed one of the locks or keys and I only had one of the three locks on the door.
Damn mortise lock again.
The unit owner was in Asia though and it was 3AM there. But this was an emergency.
Her: What do you mean, you don’t have the key?
Me: I feel that that’s fairly self-evident. I don’t have the keys.
Her: I gave you them. I rely on you to keep them for me.
Me: Yes, and I have the keys you gave me. They don’t work on the lock. Again, I don’t have the keys to your unit.
After a lotta back-and-forth, finally ran out to get a locksmith who got us in some two hours later.
But that was just getting into the apartment above.
The next step was getting a plumber in post 5PM and the same day.
That was another adventure, and he finally got to us after 7PM.
I’d already shut off water to the building but, by that time, a ton of water had already pooled.
The plumber found out that, just like my own kitchen sink, the pipe had snapped off in the unit two floors above the initial apartment.
The unit sandwiched between the two units – the unit right above the initial unit which I couldn’t gain entry to – was absolutely wrecked.
Spoke to the owner – still in Asia – who was grateful that I got to it when I did.
Still, I feel that, once she gets back, she’ll be unprepared for the amount of work that the unit will need to get clean and safe again.
As for me, I finally got to sit down and get to my own work the next day.
I could use a lot less excitement in my life, TBH.
Location: a playground with the kid, desperately trying to get work done
Mood: (trying to get) busy
Music: don’t wanna see behind your walls. You build them up so tall (Spotify)
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