Thoughts on Rain

When we moved into the new house a few weeks ago it was raining alot and everytime it rained my apartment would flood. It would come in through the doors and the windows, pretty much any and every hole in the cement walls would leak, along with the ceiling. One day the contractor was around and I asked him if anything could be done about this problem and his response was 'it only rains 1 or 2 times a year in the Sandbox. You can't worry about this'.

Ok, that's fine. It's not my house and, while I'm doing my best to keep it in good condition, I don't really care all that much if the walls are crumbling and the paint is peeling. I mean, I did my job and alerted them to the problem and they don't care.

The next week it rained 3 times and I had to strategically move my bed around the room to find a place so that the ceiling wouldn't leak on me. Yes, the 3 foot thick concrete ceiling is dripping water into my room...probably not a good thing, but again, what exactly am I supposed to do about it?

The next time the contractor was here I asked again if there was anything we could do and I got the same answer. 'It only rains 1 or 2 times. You can't worry'. And I replied 'Sir, it's rained 3 times in the past week.' You'd think I'd made a point, right? No, I just got this look like I was incredibly stupid. I'm not sure what the deal is, but apparently no matter how many times it rains, he's been told that it only rains 1 or 2 times and that's what he believes. Somehow, the fact that he has actually witnessed about 15 rains this year changes nothing.

This guy is a well educated, wealthy, very nice man. He's actually one of my favorite people in the Sandbox...I guess from now on I'll try to avoid the topic of rain.