I hate to do this because I don't want to get in the habit of writing about the mundane annoyances in my life - or continue the habit, I should say - but I have to share a quick story about some minor structural damage to our condo and the surrealness of working with building contractors.
Last fall we noticed during a storm that water was coming in through the top of our door and one of our windows (while you're reading this, please keep in mind how far removed we now are from last fall). After a lot of complaining, wading through red tape, and sitting in on home owner association meetings (which I can now cross off of my "Things To Do Before I Die" list), the manager of our condo's maintenance company finally agreed back in April to fix the problem. The only thing that was holding him up, he said, was all the rain we were getting.
Please feel free to read back over that last paragraph if you missed the irony in the maintenance manager's comment. For those of you who are short on time - the company who receives my $106 check every month for the purposes of exterior upkeep and repairs preferred to wait until it stopped raining before fixing the LEAK over our door.
Now I admit that our situation isn't exactly similar, but after thinking on this a moment, I couldn't help but ask, "Do you think Noah ever said to God 'Look, I'll be happy to build an ark. It's not the time or the materials that bother me. I'm just waiting for all this rain to let up. I mean, have you looked outside lately? Jesus it's really coming down!'"
I don't think he got it. Or maybe he got it and just didn't appreciate my sarcasm. Either way, the leak still isn't fixed.
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As someone who just switched careers and had to schedule things like that for a property management company, I've gotta take your side. It makes sense if he says he's waiting for the problem to dry out (cause that's actually true) but waiting till it stops raining (and not like "stop raining today," but instead "stop raining this season") is ridiculous. My guess is he's too lazy to schedule it, or his contractors are semi flaky and he doesn't want to corner himself into a 2-3 day period where he'd have to actually make sure it got done before rain restarted. You may want to check a 7-10 day forecast and bug him about it the next time it looks like a period of sun. That should cut down on his opportunity for that excuse
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