Yay! An actual plumber came by
and fixed all sort of ailing pipe things we had been jury-rigging in the apartment both bathroom and kitchen, since we moved in.
Even though the plumber (Trinidadian) was a very nice, very religious man who cheerfully sang hymns as he worked, ever time he saw something new, kept muttering under his breath that whoever had originally put them in was obvioulsly an incompetent idiot. LOL!
It was all done by a locally well-know but somewhat misnamed (Guyanese) "handyman", who while he is a man is not all that handy when it comes to the Construction Trades.
One of his greatest claims to fame around here was that he gave one of the ladies he was seeing on the side (his wife is perfectly well aware and just rolls her eyes as he is in other respects a good husband, provider and father) a "Social Disease".
The lady in question, (said to be American or Jamaican) being previously unaware that she was just one among so many, took revenge up on him by making up a flyer denouncing him as a two-timing (or possibly three or four timing) cad who was passing around the "gift that keeps on giving". She went down to Kinkos and had stacks of them made up which she placed all over the neighborhood as thought she was announcing a church jumble-sale. Even going so far as to leave neat stacks of them on the benches at our two local subway stops.
Other than vast amusement, neighborhood opinion seems to be that perhaps the lady should have stayed away from another woman's husband as well as the obvious "hasn't the foolish woman ever heard of Condoms?" thing.
Even though the plumber (Trinidadian) was a very nice, very religious man who cheerfully sang hymns as he worked, ever time he saw something new, kept muttering under his breath that whoever had originally put them in was obvioulsly an incompetent idiot. LOL!
It was all done by a locally well-know but somewhat misnamed (Guyanese) "handyman", who while he is a man is not all that handy when it comes to the Construction Trades.
One of his greatest claims to fame around here was that he gave one of the ladies he was seeing on the side (his wife is perfectly well aware and just rolls her eyes as he is in other respects a good husband, provider and father) a "Social Disease".
The lady in question, (said to be American or Jamaican) being previously unaware that she was just one among so many, took revenge up on him by making up a flyer denouncing him as a two-timing (or possibly three or four timing) cad who was passing around the "gift that keeps on giving". She went down to Kinkos and had stacks of them made up which she placed all over the neighborhood as thought she was announcing a church jumble-sale. Even going so far as to leave neat stacks of them on the benches at our two local subway stops.
Other than vast amusement, neighborhood opinion seems to be that perhaps the lady should have stayed away from another woman's husband as well as the obvious "hasn't the foolish woman ever heard of Condoms?" thing.