Friday Observation. Plumbers
Without removing their boots, they walked around the non-heating radiator, felt it, struggling to detect even a trace of warmth - but nothing. After a certain failure, having tried to argue that everything here was wrong and that the valve could be replaced (preferably paid in cash), they arrived at the conclusion that the connecting joint could be replaced.
The latest Friday observation :)
In connection with heating disruptions, the building manager sent two plumbers. Both Russians. One of them - Rūdis - a man in his prime, evidently having fallen out of the circuit during the crisis years, made no secret of his dissatisfaction with his current position, yet inspired a degree of hope. This illusion quickly crumbled at the moment when he proposed solving the problem invasively - i.e. taking it apart and having a look. The other one, whose name I never did learn - a smallish man of pre-retirement age who did not even understand Latvian - was, unlike the first, satisfied with life.
Without removing their boots, they walked around the non-heating radiator, felt it, struggling to detect even a trace of warmth - but nothing. After a certain failure, having tried to argue that everything here was wrong and that the valve could be replaced (preferably paid in cash), they arrived at the conclusion that the connecting joint could be replaced. Making the excuse that today probably wasn't a good day and that the day would soon be over, they set off at a brisk pace. For some time afterwards these two could still be spotted cheerfully chattering with a lean man beside an aging Audi with the bonnet open. The clock showed 11:30.
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