I just didn't realize that we would have to build the arky-arky in my housey-housey. My (brilliant) neighbors above me are completely refurbishing their apartment. What the construction workers have not discovered are a few little phenomena called gravity and water damage. I came home on Friday to discover the 6th flood of the year in my spare room, dining room, hallway, and utility room. By this point I'd had enough and called in the troops-aka Mr. and Mrs. Gates. They were kind enough to come over and survey the damage, get someone in to clean it up, and order someone to come the next day to start cleaning up my garden. My garden is filled with fallen debris (this would be gravity at work) from the construction. Not only does it makes a huge mess, but it clogs the drains as well. So when the city shuts the water off for the day, and the workers forget to turn the taps off, and all the water gushes into my house and garden, it all sits there, ready for my to find some hickory barky-barky.
Speaking of barky-barky...you should have heard my new, Bulgarian neighbor yell at the building Super! She had tried to call him hours before when the leaking first started, but he wouldn't answer his phone (because it was Friday). Her Arabic is really good, but let's just say, you didn't really need to know Arabic to understand her. Let's hope I never get on her bad side!!
