Maybe it’s just me, but you know those times when your mind plays tricks on you making you see or hear something completely different from the truth? Maybe I need to change my glasses, or try to get more sleep. Either way, my mind definitely did a number on me recently. Heading to my apartment one night I read a notice which warned that on February 27 water would be shut off in the building from 9am until 12pm. So I anticipated that since I wasn’t home during those hours I had nothing to worry about. Guess what? The sign hadn’t said 12pm, hadn’t said noon, not even 12am. The notice had actually stated between “9am and midnight.” Bloody hell, midnight! Unfortunately, I only realised this on the same day of the occurrence, so despite “the advance notice”, I had seen the real warning too late to catch up some water. So I rocked my brain to see what kind of damage control I could do. I thought — ok I have a jug of drinking water so Jason is fine. And thank God for wipes and hand sanitizer if the water runs out. Although I didn’t want to have to resort to using wipes and hand sanitizer as if I was experiencing a national disaster. Then another troublesome thought was what if I need to do number 2? Oh crap! If I had just double checked the sign, or even asked the front desk to be sure.
Well I got through the first hour and a half quite fine since I only got home at 6pm. I figured the water I had should definitely last until around 8.30 or 9pm and then I would go off to sleep anyway. If push came to shove I could just go downstairs and buy a bottle of water. But how annoying would that be to be spending money on water when if I had just realized the correct time on the notice I would have filled Jason’s tub up with some water. I would have filled those two red bowls. I could have even filled up that water bottle on the table.
Well I hate to spoil the fun people; some story this could have been huh if I really had to go all the way until midnight without water, right? But unfortunately for you and fortunately for me the water was back by 7.30pm :-). THANK GOD!!!
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