Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Chinese Gymnastics Team


Today they finally got around to fixing my lights and bathtub in maybe the most Chinese way possible. I don't know what exactly changed but Teddy showed up this morning with two guys to fix my lights and put in a new bathtub. Now in most places when going on a job that involves replacing lights on the ceiling you might think to bring a latter, especially if your maybe two inches short of five feet tall. But no, not in China, in China the better solution is clearly to stack three chairs into a pyramid on top of a hard hood floor. He didn't even think much about it either he just looked at the lights looked around and started stacking chairs. I bet if you give him six chairs he could replace any light in the whole building. They also finally came in and yanked out the old bathtub and put in a new one. Now before you go thinking their to professional or anything there were a couple of little oddities. For one thing there is a Chinese newspaper stuck halfway under the new tub which I think will be there till it disintegrate. For another thing there were four lights out in my room and for some reason they only managed to replace two of them. But the best part is what happened when they went to have a quick look at Brian's light. They again arranged three chairs to get up there and for some reason partially detached the whole big light fixture from the ceiling. They left it there for a while to go do something else and a minute or two later I here a huge crash down the hall as the whole, mostly glass, light fixture drops to the ground shattering. Now the real question is how long it will take before they get that fixed.

2 comments:

Mom said...

Geesh, that sounds dangerous. But at least you have more light now, and a bathtub that works.

bob davis said...

well, the chinese are known for their acrobats.