The next decade....what's in store?

Wha yuh guh duh?

I try to tell people not to work up themselves over things they have no control over. So when I got an urgent message at work to call the landlord, this was going to be a test of that way of thinking. I just didn't know it yet.

I selpt in the hotel on Sunday night and Monday night. Shoulda gone home Tuesday, but because of what I had to do, I needed to be close by. I ended up planning to go back home on Thursday.

I come out of a training session to get this urgent message. I called the lady and she said she's not sure what happened, or when it happened but all of my things that were on the floor got wet. The pipe leading in to the washing machine burst, most probably with the fluctuation in water pressure that NAWASA has been sending down lately.

Because I am not really all that comfortable in the apartment (Jamaica = flat), I had not unpacked fully. So my suitcases were on the ground in the bedrooms. All the contents got wet. These included my folder with school certificates and work stuff, as well as unused journals.

Well, as I said to the lady, what's done is done, so I wouldn't be rushing home as I still had things to do at work. I reached home after 9pm to find that she had washed all my clothes, and put my papers out to dry.

Wasn't that so nice of her? She had also mopped up the water and generally tidied up. I was grateful. However, I kept thinking that she would have come in an seen the place in the mess (I just don't have the energy after a 12 hour day).

With kindness like that, how can I leave?

Posted by yamfoot at May 1, 2006 01:46 AM