Barbara’s Bulletin #10: Ominous Robo Calls & The Sprinkler Saga Part 2

Last Friday at around 1:30 I was sitting at work just trying to power through the rest of my day when I got a call from the school. Luckily I was alone in the office so I answered it. I was worried that it was the school nurse calling to tell me that Adam was hurt or sick and needed to be picked up from school. I definitely was not expecting a robo call directing all parents to check their email for an important correspondence regarding a confirmed positive Covid case at the elementary school.

            I called Bob right away before I had a chance to check my email and awkwardly tried to explain what the call said. Bob seemed a little confused. We decided that the next best step would be to read the email and try to wrap our minds around the situation.

            Apparently all of the students who were in the same group as the Covid positive student were already instructed to quarantine for two weeks. The news was still hard to hear. I told Bob that I was upset about the way we were informed. He agreed and added that he didn’t like how vague they were in the information they did give us. I wished that the news didn’t have to come in the middle of the day while I was dealing with work and Bob was dealing with the workmen.

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            As for the sprinkler drama, I don’t even know where to begin. The blueprints of the house that they were working off of were an absolute joke and they needed to go into our neighbor’s apartment to run pipes, which involved drilling through floors and walls. On one day the men had to stop early because they didn’t have the right tool to drill through our floor into our downstairs neighbor’s apartment. Then the following day they needed to get into our other neighbor’s apartment (a woman who has the other half of the second floor) to run a pipe through her apartment into our apartment and she wasn’t home. Joe the landlord came by and tried to call her but she wasn’t home and wasn’t coming back anytime soon so the workmen had to leave early once again.

            We were promised the work would be finished on a Friday but when they left that Friday afternoon they were only halfway done. Bob told me that they would just be back the following Monday to finish the rest and that they assured him there wasn’t much left to do. I’m thankful that I was at work when all the drama went down because I don’t think I would have been able to handle it without going off on everyone.

            Then Saturday morning rolled around. While I was leaving to go, unexcitedly, to a gender reveal party with Lydia in tow, our second floor neighbor stopped me. She asked me if they finished with the sprinklers in my apartment and I told her that they were about halfway done. Then she told me that she had never agreed to be home on Friday to let the workmen in her house and she didn’t understand why Joe was giving her an attitude. I told her that once they realized they weren’t getting into her apartment that they just stopped for the day and didn’t really make any progress on the third floor. We both agreed that the situation was completely mishandled and downright stupid. The icing on the cake was when she told me that Monday wouldn’t work for her so I just shrugged my shoulders and walked away.

Bob was still of the belief that the workmen will finish everything up on Monday but i was skeptical. I’ll let you guess who ended up being right. The saga ends or continues next time.

Xoxoxoxoxo Babs