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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
You know what I love? I love coming home from my first day of teaching preschool, going to get a glass of water and realizing that the water in our house is off. You know what else I love? Beginning the day with a smack down trying to get our water turned back on.
Someone from the city came to look at our meter last night and said that, indeed, our water had been turned off. Yes, we paid our bill. Shut up. But since no one was available to turn it back on, we had to wait and call this morning. When I called the city people this morning, our conversation went something like this:
Me: Our water got mistakenly turned off and I want it back on.
Lady: Well, I'm showing that it wasn't us that turned it off, but I'll send someone over there soon to turn it back on.
Me: No you'll send someone now. Like, someone had better be getting in their truck as we speak to come and turn my water back on. (sidenote: whatever you think about the truthiness of the rest of the conversation, THAT is exactly what I said).
Lady: Well, the guys are just now getting here and so....
Me: No, I want someone RIGHT NOW coming over to turn my water back on.
Lady: I hate you.
Me: I hate you more.
But you know what? I got my water back on. Soon. Turns out, Public Works came to replace our meter yesterday and never turned our water back on. So, I was on the phone with Public Works giving them a piece of my mind. It wasn't pretty. I told them I have a two year old and and eight month old ( that's right, I play that card whenever I need to ) and I also said that since I couldn't wash my face last night, any further breakouts would be blamed on them.
7 comments:
I am glad your water is on! I hate it when nobody ever listens and starts being rude to you.
GOod for you...I get jealous when people can tell people off. It's a skill I have yet to master. But I am good at talking about people behind their backs...
You NEVER would have made it in Trinidad. We went 6 weeks without pipe borne water once and had to pay to truck it into our storage tanks. And you could tell them off all you wanted to. "No one working" took as long as whomever wasn't working decided it would be. Or they would "forget to turn on the pump for you area and it will be two weeks".
And people to this DAY say, "Oh, you lived in the Caribbean?? That must have been absolutely delicious!"
I stare at them incredulously.
They have NO IDEA...
We are staying in a tiny temporary living apartment right now. The (only) toilet got clogged up because my 4 year old likes to use half a roll to wipe. I called the front desk and they told me they would SEE if they could get someone out there before the end of the day because it wasn't an emergency. Four people, one toilet, not an emergency? I may have threatened to potty in the lobby, I can't be sure, but it got fixed.
How frustrating! Way to stand firm. I didn't know you were teaching preschool?? I hope you like it. I am sure you will do a great job. I tried telling Sears that I had an infant when they declared it would take them 2 weeks to fix our fridge (which it did) but it didn't work...They were unmoved.
Way to go! Tuesday I yelled at the Daily Oklahoman...it felt good. I subscribed for the Sunday paper, and I've received it once. I gave the lady a good piece of my mind. I better have a dang paper Sunday morning!
Seriously, next time I have a problem I'm going to borrow your spine. Mine's lousy.
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