Hurry up and wait
Apr. 13th, 2011 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregular"Greek time", they call it. Not quite the same sort of philosophy as "time is relative, lunch-time doubly so", but sometimes it can be more than a bit annoying. Get called into a meeting which is announced as not taking more than fifteen or twenty minutes, still stuck there an hour later. Cabinet-maker says he'll be there with bells on, and a week later, no sign of him, leaving painters and other workers hanging because they're waiting on the guy who's blown off the job.
Sometimes, though, it's just that fate intervenes. Like the workers who were supposed to be fixing the leak in my apartment. The timing was "as soon as we get finished with this other job", only the other job got more complicated, and they had to rent scaffolding or something, paying for it by the day, so they can't leave it in the middle to come over to my place to fix my walls. And naturally we can't call in the flooring people to put in new wood to patch the three-by-four-foot hole that got ripped in my parquet until the leak's plugged and the walls are patched.
Some of the people around me are hopeful that the flooring will shrink back to normal once the dry season gets into gear. I'm not so optimistic - and I'm worried that a good third of my living-room parquet may need replacing.
Minor problems, all things considered, I know.
Sometimes, though, it's just that fate intervenes. Like the workers who were supposed to be fixing the leak in my apartment. The timing was "as soon as we get finished with this other job", only the other job got more complicated, and they had to rent scaffolding or something, paying for it by the day, so they can't leave it in the middle to come over to my place to fix my walls. And naturally we can't call in the flooring people to put in new wood to patch the three-by-four-foot hole that got ripped in my parquet until the leak's plugged and the walls are patched.
Some of the people around me are hopeful that the flooring will shrink back to normal once the dry season gets into gear. I'm not so optimistic - and I'm worried that a good third of my living-room parquet may need replacing.
Minor problems, all things considered, I know.
