| Fire and water |
[Dec. 18th, 2002|10:44 am] |
| [ | Feeling |
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| [ | Reading |
| | I dumped Gump in favour of a new(ish) John Grisham | ] |
First thing today, two heating engineers arrived. Of course, the heating works fine on Wednesdays - it's Mondays that are glacial. Sometime late on Tuesday the heating kicks in and by today there's no problem.
This meant that when the engineers arrived we had a real credibility problem. Their eyebrows arched and they sucked their teeth and they said "this the room where the heating's not supposed to be working?"
For reasons that I'm not terribly clear about, their first action after our protestations died down was to check behind my desk. They did this by kneeling on it, one on either side on my PC, and sticking their heads down the back of the desk. I fled to a safe distance and stared appalled at these two enormous backsides stuck in the air on either side of my computer like some awful multimedia device. Stereo ass speakers. What a great start to the day.
I don't know if they fixed it. I don't know if they were convinced there even was anything to fix. They said they'd come back Monday. I may ask for their autographs - they should have rarity value.
Meanwhile, the water cooler is leaking and the carpet by its plug socket is drenched. More engineers have been requested. The plot thickens... |
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