My wife's sister and her boyfriend are nice people but my patience has been wearing thin of late. You see they have bought the flat across the corridor from us.
Now that need not be too problematic as such ... or will that really be the case?
SIL - sister-in-law of course - seems to have been a virtual ever-present in our living-room with her 8-month old daughter in the past month. At least it seems that way. She has decided to sit on the builders and be ever-present whilst they renovate her new residence.
Two days ago I arrived home from work at 7pm. I stepped out of the lift to see an industrial electrical cable snaking its way from the new flat towards my front door and under it.
I immediately worked out what had happened.
I walked into my gaff and quipped to my better half, "So SIL has forgotten to open a contract with the electricity company?" She looked ashamed and said, "Yes, but I didn't want to bother you!" Seems that the workmen were racing against time on the refit - on our electricity bill!
I wasn't that bothered as such but SIL spent one entire afternoon in our living-room last week "designing" a cabinet to be built at some distant time in the future to house her TV and stereo. If she had spent as much time on the real priorities of engineering a move as she did on the silly details then I would not have had to trip over an electrical cable for the past two days.
Thankfully I received a knock on the door this afternoon and it was SIL's boyfriend to take the cable away.
Thank God! Now if only they would get their water connected!
Now that need not be too problematic as such ... or will that really be the case?
SIL - sister-in-law of course - seems to have been a virtual ever-present in our living-room with her 8-month old daughter in the past month. At least it seems that way. She has decided to sit on the builders and be ever-present whilst they renovate her new residence.
Two days ago I arrived home from work at 7pm. I stepped out of the lift to see an industrial electrical cable snaking its way from the new flat towards my front door and under it.
I immediately worked out what had happened.
I walked into my gaff and quipped to my better half, "So SIL has forgotten to open a contract with the electricity company?" She looked ashamed and said, "Yes, but I didn't want to bother you!" Seems that the workmen were racing against time on the refit - on our electricity bill!
I wasn't that bothered as such but SIL spent one entire afternoon in our living-room last week "designing" a cabinet to be built at some distant time in the future to house her TV and stereo. If she had spent as much time on the real priorities of engineering a move as she did on the silly details then I would not have had to trip over an electrical cable for the past two days.
Thankfully I received a knock on the door this afternoon and it was SIL's boyfriend to take the cable away.
Thank God! Now if only they would get their water connected!
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