Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The Bare Necessities.... or Lack Thereof
We currently have no running water in our apartment. If we turn the faucet on - open her up all the way - it may make a gurgling noise, but the floodgates remain closed: no water. We haven't had water all day excluding one half hour around 4:00 during which time we started a load of wash: BAD IDEA!! We now have a load of sopping wet, soapy towels sitting in the washing machine in our bathtub. We might as well leave it there, though because we're not going to be using the tub for a shower.
This might not be so bad if we could get get a hold of our landlord, but, very mysteriously, both telephone numbers (home and cell) that he gave us have either been disconnected or no one with his name lives there. We've talked to him on his cell phone many times, but today we heard only a recorded message. It is now disconnected. When we called his home phone, I got to talk to a lady in Spanish who said, among many other things I didn't understand, that the only Enrique she knows works at the bank. Hmmm..... Also, Becky, one of the other teachers who lives on our floor and is experiencing the same problems we are, saw Enrique hiding behind the building up against the wall when she walked by. She said it looked like he was trying to make sure she didnt' see him, and when she went to say hi, he was gone. We've tried knocking on his door and calling his numbers multiple times, but nothing works. John thinks this is not a coincidence. I also failed to mention that the other apartment on our floor, the one that is huge and really nice inside, has water. We asked some one there for help, he went up on the roof, came back down, and shrugged. We said thanks, but nothing changed.
So - as it stands, we have a bunch of soapy, sopping wet towels, a washing machine full of towels in the tub, no way to wash dishes or take a shower, and no way to flush the toilet. This stinks - in many more ways than one - figuratively and literally.
We're good with the bare necessities, but we're not okay with less than that, which is what we're currently living on, not to mention that we've been sweating all day long and have no way to take a shower. We desperately hope that the water elves come to turn our water back on in the middle of the night.
This might not be so bad if we could get get a hold of our landlord, but, very mysteriously, both telephone numbers (home and cell) that he gave us have either been disconnected or no one with his name lives there. We've talked to him on his cell phone many times, but today we heard only a recorded message. It is now disconnected. When we called his home phone, I got to talk to a lady in Spanish who said, among many other things I didn't understand, that the only Enrique she knows works at the bank. Hmmm..... Also, Becky, one of the other teachers who lives on our floor and is experiencing the same problems we are, saw Enrique hiding behind the building up against the wall when she walked by. She said it looked like he was trying to make sure she didnt' see him, and when she went to say hi, he was gone. We've tried knocking on his door and calling his numbers multiple times, but nothing works. John thinks this is not a coincidence. I also failed to mention that the other apartment on our floor, the one that is huge and really nice inside, has water. We asked some one there for help, he went up on the roof, came back down, and shrugged. We said thanks, but nothing changed.
So - as it stands, we have a bunch of soapy, sopping wet towels, a washing machine full of towels in the tub, no way to wash dishes or take a shower, and no way to flush the toilet. This stinks - in many more ways than one - figuratively and literally.
We're good with the bare necessities, but we're not okay with less than that, which is what we're currently living on, not to mention that we've been sweating all day long and have no way to take a shower. We desperately hope that the water elves come to turn our water back on in the middle of the night.
// posted by The Roths @ 9:36 PM 
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Hey guys,
Remember how Dean Mathis used to call Mexico "Flexico"? It's the motto of Latin America...maybe because it's too hot..noone runs around to make anything happen.
Lower your personal standards and go with the flow. Figure out the flow of where you're at. Don't try to make it Indiana. The U.S. time orientation and getter done orientation comes from the northern European heritage. Not much of that influence down there.
Do you think that stepping out of the boat was comfortable for Peter?
Having said that...thanks for being real with us and sharing the reality of it all. We can all learn from your experiences.
love,
momp
I'd think about buying some "wep wipes" as we used to call them. Handy little things to have when there's no water.
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Remember how Dean Mathis used to call Mexico "Flexico"? It's the motto of Latin America...maybe because it's too hot..noone runs around to make anything happen.
Lower your personal standards and go with the flow. Figure out the flow of where you're at. Don't try to make it Indiana. The U.S. time orientation and getter done orientation comes from the northern European heritage. Not much of that influence down there.
Do you think that stepping out of the boat was comfortable for Peter?
Having said that...thanks for being real with us and sharing the reality of it all. We can all learn from your experiences.
love,
momp
I'd think about buying some "wep wipes" as we used to call them. Handy little things to have when there's no water.
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