This is my post for #freewriters my own prompt "things on my life"
Life and its quirks. A new chapter of the mishaps that happen to me.
A few days ago, I was at the utility sink where I fill the buckets of water for bathing and washing the dishes. Next to it, I have the washing machine that's been broken for years (although it may seem incredible to you, I haven't been able to save up the money to get it fixed; I wash my clothes by hand). For the last 5 or 6 days, while filling the buckets, I heard a noise like a crinkling plastic bag, but I would look for where it was coming from and it was from the washing machine, yet there was nothing there to justify that sound... that's how it went for several days, a strange thing...
Until yesterday afternoon, I heard a noise like a water tap running, as if I had left the utility sink faucet on. I was working on my PC, and I immediately headed to the kitchen. The first thing I saw was the entire floor completely covered in water; my kitchen was flooded! All my alarms went off, because the toilets above are also clogged and the water couldn't flow; it was just pooling! It turns out the water heater had a hole because over the years it had rusted, and the water started seeping through there, until it reached a point where it started gushing out, flooding my kitchen... total chaos, I had to clean it all up.
I called a neighbor from the condo board... the father of the girl I had the fight with because they were making noise playing soccer in their apartment at 11 PM (yes, although it may seem incredible, they did, but that's a story for another time). Anyway, this gentleman, who is Colombian, came down right away to see the problem I had. It turns out there is a shut-off valve to cut the water, but it's in a room on each floor of the building, and that room is locked. And guess what? I don't have a key. I've been asking for one for a long time and they haven't given it to me, and now this emergency happened and I needed it to shut off the water while I fixed this problem...
So, the gentleman came up with an idea. He took a formica door from my kitchen that I wasn't using anymore and placed it at an angle over the utility sink so that the water would run off into the sink and not onto the floor. This would solve everything until I could get the key to the little room... the neighbor in charge of the room, as usually happens, wasn't home. She's never there when you need her... and she never wanted to give me the key to make a copy... they're honestly shitty people.
Anyway, he eventually got the key, we shut off the water, and today the gentleman is going to do me the favor of removing the damaged heater and putting a tap on the pipes to solve the problem. I haven't used a water heater for years; I'm used to showering with cold water, so that doesn't affect me.
So this Monday, I'm waiting for this gentleman to come with the tap this afternoon (I don't know how much it's going to cost me, I hope it's not too much) to take down the heater and install it. He's also going to make me a copy of the key, and thus everything will be solved.
I'm exhausted because, with my limited mobility condition and my enormous weight, I had to squeegee all the water last night; my bones hurt... but these are things that happen in life... I don't want any more tests, or at least if they are going to send me tests, I wish I'd get help from someone who lends a hand, someone who would have helped me squeegee all the water so I wouldn't end up with pains like I have now.
Furthermore, it's been about 9 days since I've slept well because of an annoying cough I have, and I don't know what it's from. I haven't been a smoker for many years. And I have a cough that's like when you have phlegm but it doesn't quite come out, and I cough over and over but nothing comes out.
Anyway, I wanted to share this episode so it remains in the record of the adventures of my bizarre and curious life.
Over and out.
La vida y sus cosas. Nuevo capitulo de las peripecias que me ocurren.
Hace unos dias iba a la batea en donde lleno los tobos de agua para el baño y para lavar la loza. Al lado tengo la lavadora que hace años esta dañada (aunque les parezca increible no he conseguido reunir dinero para poder ocuparme de eso, lavo mi ropa a mano). Estos ultimos 5 o 6 dias al llenar los tobos escuchaba un ruido como de una bolsa arrugandose, pero buscaba de donde venia y era de la lavadora pero no habia nada alli que justificara ese sonido...asi paso durante varios dias, una cosa rara...
Hasta que ayer en horas de la tarde, escucho un ruido como de una llave de agua abierta, como si hubiese dejado el grifo de la batea abierto. Estaba trabajando en mi pc, y de inmediato me diriji a la cocina, lo primero que vi fue todo el piso completamente lleno de agua,estaba inundada mi cocina!. Se me prendieron todas las alarmas, pues los inodoros enciman estan tapados y el agua no podia fluir, se quedaba estancada!. Resulta que el calentador de agua tenia una perforacion porque con el paso de los años se oxido y el agua empezo a penetrar por alli, hasta un punto en que empezo a botarse todo inundando mi cocina...todo un caos , tuve que limpiar todo eso.
Llame a un vecino de la junta de condomio...el padre de la muchacha con la que tuve la pelea porque me hacian ruido a las 11 de la noche jugando futbol en su apartamento (si, aunque les parezca increible lo hacian, pero este es un cuento para otra ocasion), total que el señor que es colombiano, bajo en seguida a ver el problema que tenia, resulta que hay una llave de paso para cortar el agua, pero esta en un cuarto de cada piso del edificio, y ese cuarto esta bajo llave, y adivinen que?, yo no tengo llave, la vengo pidiendo hace tiempo y no me la han dado , y ahora paso esta emergencia y la necesitaba para cerrar el paso de agua mientras solucionaba este problema...
Total que el señor se ingenio una cosa, tomo una puerta de formica de mi cocina que ya no usaba y la puso en angulo sobre la batea para que el agua escurriera hacia la batea y no al piso. Esto solucionaria todo hasta que consiguiera la llave del cuartico...la vecina a cargo de el cuarto como suele pasar no se encontraba en casa. nunca esta cuando se le necesita...y nunca quiso darme la llave para sacarle copia...es una gente de mierda sinceramente.
El caso es que consiguio la llave, cerramos el paso de agua y ya el señor el dia de hoy me va a hacer el favor de quitar el calentador dañado y ponerle una canilla a los tubos para solucionar el problema. Yo no uso calentador hace años , estoy acostumbrado a bañanarme con agua fria, asi qeu eso no me afecta.
Asi que hoy Lunes estoy a la espera de que venga este señor con la canilla a la tarde (Que no se cuanto me va a costar, espero que no sea mucho) para bajar el calentador y montar eso. Tambien va a sacarme una copia de la llave y asi quedara solucionado todo.
Estoy molido, porque con mi condicion de poca movilidad y mi enorme peso tuve que escurrir todo el agua anoche, me duelen los huesos...pero son cosas que pasan en la vida...yo ya no quiero mas pruebas, o al menos que si me van a mandar pruebas, reciba la ayuda de alguien que me tire una mano, alguien que me hubiese ayudado a escurrir todo el agua y no terminar con dolores como los tengo ahora.
Ademas llevo cerca de 9 dias sin dormir bien por una tos molesta que tengo y no se de que sera. no soy fumador desde hace muchos años. Y tengo una tos que es como cuando uno tiene flema pero no termina de salir, y toso una y otra vez pero no sale.
En fin, queria compartir este episodio para que quede en el registro de las aventuras de mi vida bizarra y curiosa.
Cambio y fuera.
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This is my black cat "manclar", this hive name account is to honor his dead (it happened years ago).
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