Thursday, July 29, 2010

Unpleasent experience

Hey everyone! This post is about an unpleasent experience I had about a week ago. I came home around 10:30 pm. I was on my bike, and I was coming from the Martinsons. I was about to enter the apartment building when the woman that lives below me, stuck her head out the window and started speaking to me in Latvian (she had been waiting on me, probably for hours.) I told her that I only spoke English and that I didn't understand, so she motioned for me to enter the building. Once I got inside she opened her apartment and motioned for me to come in. She showed me that her floor was wet and she opened her bathroom door showing me something about the toilet (I had been warned about this woman by Christina, and she told me before I came not to put anything in the toilet that shouldn't be there.) I kind of understood what she was getting at, but I called Martins to translate. I handed her the telephone and she yelled to him saying that I had flushed something down the toilet and it had flooded her apartment. So she handed me the phone and Martins explained this to me. I told him that I hadn't, so I handed her the phone back and she yelled a little bit more. Then she handed me the phone and Martins chuckled and said,"I can translate the last sentence. She says that if anything like this happens again she will rip your head off." Yeah I could tell that she was pretty upset. Anyway Martins was a huge help, providing both translation and encouragement. He assured me that every apartment building has an old lady like this one, and that she just wanted to blame someone. So with his encouragement that nothing was my fault, I went upstairs and shook it off. It was a real experience though! One that will be unforgettable!
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P.S. I found out the next day from Martins that she also told him I hadn't taken out the trash since I've been there. So apparently I've been under surveillance and I guess she thinks that I flush all of the trash down the toilet? I'm really not sure? This is definitely a first for me!

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