Comments on: Completely surrounded by no water at all http://www.oriste.com/2004/05/19/completely-surrounded-by-no-water-at-all Yvonne and Luc in Wonderland Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:29:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: luc http://www.oriste.com/2004/05/19/completely-surrounded-by-no-water-at-all/comment-page-1#comment-105 luc Thu, 20 May 2004 17:53:03 +0000 http://www.oriste.com/2004/05/19/completely-surrounded-by-no-water-at-all/#comment-105 You moved to Amsterdam? When did that happen? You moved to Amsterdam? When did that happen?

]]> By: Tom http://www.oriste.com/2004/05/19/completely-surrounded-by-no-water-at-all/comment-page-1#comment-106 Tom Thu, 20 May 2004 01:58:54 +0000 http://www.oriste.com/2004/05/19/completely-surrounded-by-no-water-at-all/#comment-106 I was living in a Third World building in the late 1980s. It's within spitting distance of my current residence, also a Third World establishment. We always had plenty of water, though it was often unheated. The heat was also often unheated. In my current residence, the water only fails to run about once every three months and, then, only for about five or six hours and we are given 12 hours' notice. Still, as you have pointed out, there are certain bodily exigencies that require water or a wooded area nearby. Luckily, we have the latter. One of the elevators is not running at the moment and for all the moments over the past six days and the lobby door to the stairs is locked to be certain that riff-raff burglars, rapists, and muggers use the elevator, or simply conduct their business in the alcoves of the lobby. There is no security guard. With respect to the elevators, I've taken to paraphrasing a famous sexistAmerican expression comparing women and buses while standing with the surly crowd waiting in the lobby to get to their various floors: "Elevators are like women. Another one comes along every 15 minutes." Nobody laughs. Go figure. Would you believe that I live in the Capital of the Capital of the Most Developed, Freeest country in the Universe? Tom I was living in a Third World building in the late 1980s. It’s within spitting distance of my current residence, also a Third World establishment.

We always had plenty of water, though it was often unheated. The heat was also often unheated.

In my current residence, the water only fails to run about once every three months and, then, only for about five or six hours and we are given 12 hours’ notice.

Still, as you have pointed out, there are certain bodily exigencies that require water or a wooded area nearby. Luckily, we have the latter.

One of the elevators is not running at the moment and for all the moments over the past six days and the lobby door to the stairs is locked to be certain that riff-raff burglars, rapists, and muggers use the elevator, or simply conduct their business in the alcoves of the lobby. There is no security guard.

With respect to the elevators, I’ve taken to paraphrasing a famous sexistAmerican expression comparing women and buses while standing with the surly crowd waiting in the lobby to get to their various floors: “Elevators are like women. Another one comes along every 15 minutes.”

Nobody laughs.

Go figure.

Would you believe that I live in the Capital of the Capital of the Most Developed, Freeest country in the Universe?

Tom

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