more boring mundane stuff

So, like I mentioned before, it's been almost a year since I moved into this apartment. And, apparently, it was high time for a major plumbing disaster.:/ Yesterday, around noon, as I came out of the tub, there was water all over the bathroom floor. And while I was mopping it up, wondering where the hell it came from, I heard loud banging on my front door. I barely had time to throw on a flimsy nightie and a robe before the plumber guy from the rental company used his key and came in. It turned out that my downstairs neighbor had called him, because the water was leaking through his ceiling (and I never heard the neighbor knocking on the door, because I was in the bath - not that I would have gotten out to answer the door, anyway). So, after assesing the situation, the plumber had to bring in some massive vacuum-like machine and clean out the mess. He said that this type of drain clean-up should be done routinely about once a year, to prevent leaks - but nobody told me that when I moved in. I also found out that his previous anonymous visit had originally nothing to do with my dripping kitchen tap. He had come here to check the kitchen radiator, which, according to my downstairs neighbor, was leaking through his ceiling as well (which I had no slightest clue about). And while he was doing that, he noticed the dripping tap - so he came back the next day to fix it too. Well... that certainly explains why my garbage bin was moved out of its usual place that day. *headshake* As well as tells me that no one reads the emails people send to the rental office. Well... I guess I'm sort of lucky that I live on the top floor, then - the poor guy downstairs (who I'm sure must hate me now) is the first to know about my plumbing issues, and by the time I find out about them, they are already being (or have been) fixed.:P

( And that only proves, once again, that it's much better to live on your own than to share. )