Sandbox Plumbing

I've now been living in my apartment for 10 days now. (Actually only 9 nights b/c one night we didn't have power so we stayed with some friends.) But anyways, we managed to make it through an entire week with no major plumbing issues...until Friday. It was pretty late and I was getting ready for bed when I noticed water streaming from underneath the toilet. Since it was Friday evening and no one works on Fridays, I just figured that there's a drain in the corner, if it floods, it floods. Well, thankfully, it did not flood, sometime in the night it stopped but I called my landlord the next morning anyways, who called the plumber who just happens to live upstairs.

Sidenote.....We actually have a history with this plumber, some would call it a friendship, I would call it a history. Before we moved in, he was in our apartment all day, every day for 8 days straight 'fixing' things. Since we've lived there, he's been back a few times to fix stuff, plus he's come down to borrow our iron (?!?) and he bought my roommate a coke down at the store on the corner, all of this while he speaks only Arabic and we speak only English.

Back to the story, after I called my landlord I went to 'get decent' but before I could even get dressed into a skirt and long sleeves the plumber was knocking on the door. (I guess sometimes it can be a good thing that the plumber lives upstairs). He goes into my bathroom, leaves to get tools, comes back and in 10 minutes tells me that he's finished and it's fixed. I didn't see any water running so I assumed that it was fixed and sent him on his way. The landlord called to make sure everything was fine and informed me that the plumber was leaving that afternoon and would be traveling for a few weeks so to be sure we had everything fixed before he left.

Once things were cleared up with the leak, I left for work and didn't come home that night until late...only to find that the water was turned off in my bathroom. That's right, the leak is fixed b/c he turned off the water!!! Who in their right mind would think that this was an adequate solution for a problem? I don't know. But since he's traveling for a while, I'm stuck with no water in my bathroom. Sometimes I just wonder how people can live with absolutely no logic?!?!?