hmm

[llywela]

So yesterday I went out after work to have a bite to eat before finally making it to the cinema to watch the new Star Wars film, Rogue One - which, I figured up front they'd all end up dead, so I didn't let myself get attached to anyone, which was just as well. But it was a rollicking good film in spite of killing off every single protagonist. So I didn't get home until almost 10pm, whereupon I was perturbed by a hissing sound coming from the cupboard under the stairs.

One of the water pipes had sprung a leak. In the cupboard. Which is a big cupboard, in which I store everything that needs to be stored out of sight. All of which is now soaked.

But I have a landlord, and the landlord has a maintenance guy and a plumber on retainer. So I contact the plumber. He informs me that he's off work sick and I need to contact the maintenance guy. I contact the maintenance guy. He's not answering. I leave a message. I go to bed. Except that my bedroom is right by the cupboard, so all I can hear is the hisssssssss of leaking water, so I can't sleep. So I take my pillow and quilt through to the lounge and sleep on the sofa instead.

Morning comes. Maintenance guy finally makes contact and promises to come look at the leak asap. I have to go to work, because there's an event on today that I organised and I have to be there for it, so I go to work and I go to the event. The food is great. Maintenance guy gets in touch to say he's fixed the leak.

But now. Now, I'm going to have to go home and face the dreaded mopping up, figure out what can be salvaged and what'll have to be chucked. My box of Christmas decorations is soaked! I just put them away! My fan heater, my little fibre optic Christmas tree, the strimmer - so much electrical stuff, now wet. Bah humbug.

Happy new year, eh.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, dear! Poor you! Glad it is at least fixed, but, yeah, clearing up won't be fun. :-/

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Um, thanks for the Rogue One spoilers? :/

Bummer about the leak and all your stuff getting ruined. :( Was there anything really irreplaceable like momentos, photos?

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

I put the spoilers behind a cut, explicitly labelled 'spoiler alert'! Don't want to read, don't click...

Having sifted through it, most of the actual stuff is salvageable, even if the boxes it was stored in are not. I have stuff spread all over the flat on towels, drying out - the carpet is going to take longest. No photos were harmed, thank goodness.

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Ah, well I only see posts by opening them up via email notifications (I would never see anything if I just relied on looking at a friends page), and that displays the full text. Sometimes if there is a major spoiler, I use spoiler-text to avoid that, since that doesn't display the same way. *shrug*

Glad most of your stuff was salvageable!