While I was at work last Friday, a man from the water board came round and disconnected all the water to the property because of unpaid bills. On my return home, Hardwick (guard, gardener, fixer of things and good person to have around) told me, very gravely, what had happened but then with a cheeky grin told me that he’d reconnected the supply using his special tool – hooray for Hardwick!
To cut a long story short, its taken a week to get the bill, argue the toss with VSO to give me money to cover the unpaid amount the previous tenant left and get down to the Water Office to sort everything out – I expect it all could have been done much quicker had we not actually had any water and surviving on baby wipes alone but a week isn’t too bad I don’t think.
So, after paying a staggering 18,000 I asked Mr Cashier Man how long it might be before we had water supply again (official not illegal!) ‘Right now Madam’, came the reply as his friend Mr Reconnector, picked up the phone. I shot out of there and straight back to the house to tell Hardwick to disconnect everything again. Literally, as he twisted the last pipe, there was a ‘beep, beep’ outside – I’ve never known efficiency like it! Shoving his special stylised monkey wrench into his pocket, he opened the gate to the Water Truck, a picture of innocence. A little man hopped out with a proper wrench, sorted out my pipe, hopped back in truck and off they went – 2 minutes start to finish, incredible!
Hardwick’s face was fabulous – ‘Eee, chipongwe!’ he said, giggling. I did feel ‘naughty’, it was great!! As I left to get back to work, Hardwick fished out his special tool again and unlocked the other pipes...
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