Today morning my previous roommate called me and spoke to me about the West State Street house. She told me that she was remembering an incident that happened in that house. I was telling her that I was also remembering the West State Street House last night. We were so amused that we both had similar thoughts :-)
After I wrote about all my nostalgia about Carriage Hill Drive ... I have to write about the place where I lived after Carriage Hill Drive. My two roommates and I decided not to obligate ourselves with a year long lease at Carriage Hill Drive ... We moved to a house in the West State Street. Knowing little about the experiences we were going to go through, we moved in with all the feeling of newness and change. The day we moved in, we even boiled milk as per our Indian tradition :-)
When I think about that house now, I feel how can anyone live in a house that had so many problems. Everyday we wold have some peculiar unexpected problem at home. The problems we went through were so so strange, I will describe one such event in this post.
One evening when I came home after hanging out with my friends, I had dinner and opned the tap to wash my hands and I found that the flow of water was slowing down and I felt that it will stop shortly. When I looked out of the window, the landlord was going out somewhere. I quickly called him and told about the problem. He stopped by and it was almost 12 in the night when he figured out that the hot water supply pipe had cracked and it was continuously flowing out. He told us that he will stop the water supply for the night and get someone to mend it by morning. We did not want to think too much about next morning before we slept because it would just be unnecessary strain as we knew that its anyway going to be an awful experience. One roommate of mine had to leave by 8 in the morning the next day so she managed a face wash and left the house early.
After I wrote about all my nostalgia about Carriage Hill Drive ... I have to write about the place where I lived after Carriage Hill Drive. My two roommates and I decided not to obligate ourselves with a year long lease at Carriage Hill Drive ... We moved to a house in the West State Street. Knowing little about the experiences we were going to go through, we moved in with all the feeling of newness and change. The day we moved in, we even boiled milk as per our Indian tradition :-)
When I think about that house now, I feel how can anyone live in a house that had so many problems. Everyday we wold have some peculiar unexpected problem at home. The problems we went through were so so strange, I will describe one such event in this post.
One evening when I came home after hanging out with my friends, I had dinner and opned the tap to wash my hands and I found that the flow of water was slowing down and I felt that it will stop shortly. When I looked out of the window, the landlord was going out somewhere. I quickly called him and told about the problem. He stopped by and it was almost 12 in the night when he figured out that the hot water supply pipe had cracked and it was continuously flowing out. He told us that he will stop the water supply for the night and get someone to mend it by morning. We did not want to think too much about next morning before we slept because it would just be unnecessary strain as we knew that its anyway going to be an awful experience. One roommate of mine had to leave by 8 in the morning the next day so she managed a face wash and left the house early.
Now it was time for me and my kiddo roomie to leave home. There was not even a drop of water supply at home. We being people who often think silly and creative ;-) ... we remembered that there was a university building right opposite to our house. She told me ... "Thank god our house is so close to the campus that we have some univ building right opposite to our house". With the sleepy faces, we quickly changed into jeans and presentable tee-shirts. We armed ourselves with toothpaste, toothbrushes, tongue cleaners and face wash. We looked at each as if we questioned each other, " do we need anything else?"
We walked to the building with our flip flops and we saw a young girl in the reception. She was in a bright orange top and greeted us with a pleasant smile and said " Good morning!! .... How are you guys doing?" My roomie replied with a gorgeous and childish smile .."Good morningggg!!"
We were not feeling comfortable with the feeling of entering this building just because there was no water at our house. We slipped from there as if we were just too busy with something and ran inside the restroom so that the receptionist does not see out tooth brushes, tooth paste etc etc ... . The restroom was soo very well maintained. With all flower vases and neatly maintained wash basins etc ... We were pleasantly surprised with the look of the place.
There were nobody around, so we both started talking and cracking some silly pjs and giggling. We were talking pretty loudly ... and then suddenly we saw a lady walk out of one of the restrooms. Me and my roommate froze after seeing her. She had such a surprised look on her face which almost asked the question ... " Are these girls from any jungle? Why are they brushing their teeth here? Are they homeless?" We both put a sudden stop to the conversation and we were looking at each other in the mirror with the toothbrush in mouth, all so embarrassed to be there. We never wanted to be seen by anyone for all the silly plans we had made to get to college with a decent look. The lady did not talk a word, we did not talk a word. She almost ran out of the restroom as if we were some unsafe people to be among :-P
My roommate and I burst into laughter after she left :-)
This was just one funny incident that happened in that house. Everyday we had to await one new problem and think about solving it. More to come in the next part ...
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