Stella_Omega
No Gentleman
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I (with the help of two moving men) knocked the fire sprinkler nozzle off the ceiling in my boss's apartment. Hundreds of gallons of filthy water, a completely destroyed pergo floor, and six-month old silky wall-to-wall. One antique Chinese painting ruined, one antique Chinese Ancestor scroll in need of restoration, a leather sofa full of water, six carpets --Persian, Indian, native American, Chinese-- in dire need of cleaning-- and we had just gotten them back! one upholstered chair soaked, walls in need of repainting-- a computer keyboard drowned. The Mac might have made it through the deluge unscathed.
Outside the apartment; a fortyfoot by eight foot-wide hallway in up to three inches of standing water, seepage into other tenant's apartments, fire men and fire-alarms, a retirement home full of older folks who were variously amused or irritated by the events. The noise and bustle of a cleanup crew that has to demolish as much as they clean.
My boss is taking it all much better than I am. He's probably out of his apartment for four days to a week-- The small miracle is that, somehow, the bookcase did NOT get hit by the water, and his collection, including his own copies of his publications, are undamaged.
I am just heartsick.
ETA: I guess I need to make it clear that I don't think I, myself, knocked the damn thing off, but the three of us working together did it.
Outside the apartment; a fortyfoot by eight foot-wide hallway in up to three inches of standing water, seepage into other tenant's apartments, fire men and fire-alarms, a retirement home full of older folks who were variously amused or irritated by the events. The noise and bustle of a cleanup crew that has to demolish as much as they clean.
My boss is taking it all much better than I am. He's probably out of his apartment for four days to a week-- The small miracle is that, somehow, the bookcase did NOT get hit by the water, and his collection, including his own copies of his publications, are undamaged.
I am just heartsick.
ETA: I guess I need to make it clear that I don't think I, myself, knocked the damn thing off, but the three of us working together did it.
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