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Offline Pugnate

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I love my life.... I am lying.
« on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 12:13:38 AM »
Ever since Bhuttos Assasination, as you guys may know, there have been lots of riots. Well some of the rioters attacked a number of power lines, generators etc. So for the past few weeks there has been a massive shortage in power, and that has resulted in "load shedding". So every evening for a couple of hours, I lose power.

That fucking sucks. Nothing drops your spirits faster than realizing you will have to sit alone in the dark for two hours. It isn't about passing the time, as it is about time wasted.

If that wasn't enough, I've had no water since Saturday. Basically in this part of the world, tenants have no rights. You rent a home, and if something goes wrong, you fix it. Each house in this part of the world receives water in a basement reservoir daily. It is the duty of the inhabitants of that house to go out every morning, turn on the water pump motor for a couple of hours, and fill the distributing tank on top of the house.

It actually isn't that bad, and is just a routine.

What is bad is if something happens to the motor.

On Saturday, the motor wasn't pumping any water, so I called a plumber, who charged me an insane amount of money (Plumbers ripping people off is a universal concept), to look at the thing. He told me the motor was old, and that it needed servicing.

So I had it serviced and he brought it back Sunday evening, but it still wouldn't pump. He said there might be an issue in the reservoir, but he couldn't work as it was really dark. So the next day he came, and had a look, and told me that a pipe at the bottom of the reservoir needed changing, and that was the real issue.

So 24 hours later, he fixed that pipe, and charged more freakin' money. The result? The motor still wasn't pumping water.

So today the landlord entered the picture, and the plumber had a look at the pipe that connected the motor to the reservoir. He said that is what was cracked, and he'd have to basically break the floor of my garage to fix that pipe.

Fuck.



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Re: I love my life.... I am lying.
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 12:25:46 AM »
Jeez, man.  I feel your pain at least to a degree.  I've had to deal with paying for repairs before, it isn't fun.  I can scarcely imagine what they're charging you, though.  It would probably be enough to give me a heart attack right now.

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Re: I love my life.... I am lying.
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 12:31:36 AM »
geez.. well at least you have a house..

scheduled blackouts aren't too bad...  I remember having to go through that in the Philippines when I was a kid.
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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 12:48:26 AM »
Tenant rights should be universally recognized human rights.

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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 06:39:32 AM »
Man, that sucks. I know how you feel homey. Reminds me of the village I was living in Lebanon during Gulf War 1. We didn't have electricity, but we had the whole water reservoir thing where we needed to pump it. Losing that little luxury sucks. At least at the time I was a kid and didn't have to deal with it personally.

Inshallah it'll all be fixed soon man :)

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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 07:07:18 AM »
How did you pump without electricity?

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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 11:08:07 AM »
How did you pump without electricity?
With an ox man! What do you think we are? Savages? hehe No we had a miniature generator for the pump that operated on fuel.

That was also around the time we learned how to hook up a car battery to just about any appliance and make it work :D Hehe I still remember when I was 14 my uncle brought home an old black & white TV .. Around midnight we'd move the antenna around till we got the Israeli channel "Sigma" which was all porn :P Thinking back we were pretty perverted kids. It was that or shooting lizards.

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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 11:15:59 AM »
Generators are really noisy.

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« Reply #8 on: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 01:07:25 AM »
Generators are really noisy.
Yeah, it frickin' annoying man. Smokey too. So it made a good wake-up call everyday at 6 a.m. hehe :P

Any progress on your situation?