Mishaps
Last year, the house started leaking. My daughter's wall and ceiling stained brown from a leaking pipe and it took a plumber at exorbitant rates to find the leak, and then fix it, which as any gullible punter knows costs double and requires at least 5 visits to numerous hardware shops on behalf of the plumber.
This year, it's the lights. My boyfriend and I decided to rewire our dimmer switches and 'pop!' the lights went. I sit here waiting for an emergency electrician to arrive. I tried calling 8 all of which were 'busy' over Christmas. I was asked to wait until the 2nd of January and with no downstair lights at all, that would be a bit of a hardship.
Pathetic really isn't it? We look at videos of Africa and starving children every year. The pictures of floods in Java with the Tsunami. These people have no electricity EVER and here am I complaining because someone can't get to me for an hour and a half. I have food on my table, hugs in my home and happy, contented healthy children.
I am blessed.
(But I do wish that electrician would hurry up!)
Minerva
3 comments:
Oh Minerva
What an good attitude you have!
You are right though.
I know I that it for granted too until the hydro goes out
I don't really know how important it is, but it is only natural that we take it for granted. I know when we were kids and we were fussy as to what we had to eat and then Mom would say about the starving kids who had nothing to eat and we should be thankful.
Well out of sight... out of mind that still didn't help when we had to eat some awful vegetable or we wouldn't get dessert!
I hope your hydro is on on now Minerva....
I am glad that it didn't happen on Christmas and I am glad that your boyfriend is there to help you..Love Terry
I hope that electrician has been now - of course, without lights you could always go medieval and fill your house with the warmth of candlelight......
well, that or chivvy the electrician again!!
cq
Indeed, it is scary the dependence we have on facilities that we take for granted.
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