Today has been a curious thing that, in essence, put me in bad host to the rest of society.
I was so happy and content tinkering with the computer, surfing the Internet, pretending to occasionally looked somewhat the notes, and listening to music when I have bothered my parents.
"I called a man of an agency, in English"
Sure, I've thought reverie. Impossible for anyone to require me for anything in English in Toledo. Overall, after three or four "Come on, you can not let people" I woke up to see what the joke was. Turns out
I see a man at the door, dark-skinned (not black, but someone with brown skin, that is, roasted by the sun), which I greeted with some hesitation. Has begun to speak in English, and after a couple of seconds where you think "what the hell is this guy saying?" I realized that it was the downstairs neighbor, who was Egyptian, that did not work the gas, and if we knew something.
have changed the installation of gas outside the block, and Dimitri, the plumber in Eastern Europe and baptized by me that has made all the change, had to forget to give some key to this man.
Anyway, I came down to house, the man giving me all sorts of explanations, with an education Quite right, I must confess. In the end, when they finally figured that Dimitri had avoided that could live on that floor, as I explained that I had to do was call the landlord and the gas company and explain the situation. Immediately, my neighbor pleaded with her eyes as she said it helps not yet mastered English very well. Finally, I offer to help, call me and ask the landlord's number. To my surprise, it was a fixed (and I mean surprise, because for what you may need at home is a matter of urgency, and that's no doubt about the usefulness of mobile) que, para colmo de males, no daba señal. En fin, me propongo llamar a la compañía, llamando al 11822 para pedir el número. Operadores ocupados. Llamo al 11818, y me atiende un operador. Le solicito el número de urgencia de la compañía, y me da uno. Llamo, y no lo coge nadie. Vuelvo a llamar al casero, y por fin da tono de llamada, pero no hay nadie en casa y le dejo un mensaje en el contestador.
A todo esto, en la casa hacía un frío álgido. No sabéis la suerte que tenemos de poder contar con calefacción y tal... Decido llamar a emergencias, al 112, y tras mucho explicar la situación (“mire, señorita, es que el inquilino no habla español, y el dueño no está localizable, ..."), so I call a number I provided the company does appear to be an emergency. I call, I served a girl, and after much explanation, he says he has given a part of a fault, and perhaps with luck can go before eleven to fix the problem (it was a thing of nine when this happened.)
Anyway, I tell the neighbors as best I can all the vicissitudes of the theme, warning that it might come tonight to look at your problem. But fuck it, it was very cold in that house to spend the night as well, so I decide to go to my grandmother's house looking for a small heater of those already casi olvidados, y se lo comunico. Pilla cerca de casa y no he tardado más de diez minutos en volver. Se lo doy al vecino, diciéndole que puede usar el mísero trasto tanto tiempo como le sea necesario, que la compañía está avisada, y que seguiré intentando ponerme en contacto con el dueño del piso, y que si necesitaba de mi persona para hacerse entender, que no dudase en llamarme cuando viniesen los de la compañía, o cuado fuere. También he hecho gala de mis paupérrimos conocimientos de árabe, y al pobre hombre se le han iluminado los ojos. Se ha desecho en agradecimientos, y me ha regalado un papiro con motivos egipcios.
De vuelta al confort de mi hogar, lleno de radiadores operating gas and the atmosphere warmed to 22 degrees, I called back home. He has taken his father (even though the guy must be around the quarantine, if it passes ...) and he told me he had come. I explain to the man who I am and what I call, and I asked the owner's mobile phone to tell him in person: "Do not worry, we will notice me ..." So, being nearly ten, I had to abandon, confident that this man be notified as soon as possible of the status of its occupant.
Past eleven, to not have heard noise, I again call the company, making note that this person is spending the night in an unheated house, so that tomorrow you meet as soon as possible. I have been told they could not do anything and tonight, and tomorrow I would attend as soon as possible.
The overall situation has put me in bad milk. First, the landlord's misunderstanding about his tenant. Fuck me saying that nobody has given him a phone, because for emergencies, which is what you may need, you are given a mobile phone so that you can always have him located. Second, the ineffectiveness of Dimitri, or his boss, who have left home without gas supply in winter, in an area of Spain where exactly does heat. Third, for the case we have done the rest of overlooked this man, and it is curious that has finally fallen on the doors of my house and this is the diametric opposite of yours. And fourth, the general situation of this person, who is living alone in an unknown country where the language, and seeing themselves in a situation like this has become totally helpless.
Also, do not even want to imagine the saber that he has to put the home with the advantage that gives this man does not understand or dad what they say ...
The world is a mess ... could throw it away ...
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