I’ve had no water (again!) since last night, so I was just a tad grouchy this morning. Over brekkie, I read this post about someone having a really shitty day, which helped to put things into perspective somewhat.
Shortly after, and still in a huff, I trudged out to buy some groceries, and it occurred to me that this situation can’t be much fun for the owner of the vintage clothes shop tucked away in that corner:
On the way back, loaded up with broccoli, carrots and oyster mushrooms, I treated myself to a coffee and a sliver of cake for €1.20. And when I got home, the water was back on, HURRRAAAAH! Life’s OK again now 😉
Lady Of The Cakes 
Yes, cake is always the answer for you of course.
Oh no, poor clothes shop owner, must be ruining her trade! (Has she got nice stuff in there? I love poking around little shops like that… ) 🙂
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Yes, she does have nice stuff in there!
My accountant is right opposite (you can’t see the door on that pic), and they had a moan at me last week about the dirt and the noise.
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I noticed a bit of a leak last week outside our house and was wondering if i ought to call someone when the waterboard came, dug out the pipe, sorted it and then recobbled the road! Brilliant! Things CAN happen quickly here….
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Sounds like a miracle! I think you should erect a shrine in the very spot, dedicated to La Virgen Fontanera.
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Are you sure it was only a sliver of cake?! 😉
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It was a very abstemious piece, I assure you 😉
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Actually, at that price it must have been!
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We have some great “breakfast” offers round here. I love going out for brekkie – you can get the whole shebang for €2.50.
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Sometimes a little self-imposed time out (with cake) is just what’s needed. Glad to hear your water is back.
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Cake fixes everything 🙂
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You won’t get any arguments from me on that one.
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Having no water = the worst. Glad you got it back on! And that picture is too funny… it just gave me a flashback to living in Prague and walking out the door one morning to almost fall in a hole. Thanks for the notice on the sidewalk replacement, City of Praha!
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I have a ranking system (least worst to worstest): No hot water, no water, no internet, no electricity.
All of this happens at regular intervals, sometimes simultaneously… sigh.
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Eek. That’s one way to keep people from moving to Spain. 🙂
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It’s more a problem here in the old town rather than a country-wide thing. Another good reason to move!
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El bizcocho salva el día!
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Si, el bizcocho mola 😉
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When we were travelling I got used to having no water, no toilet, no shower, no electricity and no internet, This was why McDonald’s became heaven – it had all of them, and for about 50c (the price of a cup of coffee!) Glad it’s all better now.
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We have one… maybe I should move in there!
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That might be going a step too far (they don’t do good cakes), but keep them in mind for when the power and/or wifi are gone!
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You should send a sliver of magic cake to Pecora – maybe Telecom Italia will show up 😉
Glad your water’s back – at least you still had wifi though. Losing both at the same time would be cataclysmic 😉
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…and just as I was thinking… so far, nothing’s gone wrong (with the flat/building) this October!
PN is beyond help 😦
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Poor dude. I’d be at their offices with a machete by now 😉 They must not have anyone monitoring online activity that contains their name – most big companies do. You’d think a Telecomms company would! He’s written a few posts on this and nothing!
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They probably have a firewall that screens out complaints.
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At least they have one thing that works 😉
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No water is the worst! Glad it’s back on now.
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No water would make me grumpy beyond the power of cake to correct.
My sense of humour and adventure can only stretch so far. Glad you have survived 🙂
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The annoying thing is that they don’t give you any advance warning, even if it’s planned repair works. A few hours without water are of very little inconvenience, if you’re prepared.
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I agree about the notice. I remember one incident in my home town when they were planning to shut down the power grid in the entire town for 7 hours starting at 8 am.
Needless to say, everyone prepared their activities around an 8 am shutdown. The bastards turned off the grid at 7:45. What bright-light decided that would be a good idea?!!!!!
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Aw, what a fuckwit… in the mornings, 15 minutes matter a great deal!
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Exactly!!! I was standing in the shower when the lights went out 😦
Not only did I have to finish my shower in the dark, I couldn’t dry my hair or put on makeup. The Horror!
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Oh, the indignity…!
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The poor shop owner! Glad you got your water back too!
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Not a good time for that shop owner, I suspect. I hope that dig gets cleaned up quickly. She’s probably not getting much business over those makeshift wooden planks.
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They’ve already been digging for two weeks, it’ll be at least another ten days it’s all done, I suspect… but we are used to that kind of thing here, sigh.
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What kind of cake? This post is much too short and missing important detail.
Is it brekkie or brekker? We used to call it “brekker” when I lived in just-post-colonial India.
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I don’t know what it was… it never touched the sides 😉
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Sometimes even just a bit of food or a cup of coffee can make the difference between feeling like crap and feeling ok…on such things hang happiness…. How do the Spaniards react to the water (etc) shutdowns?
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It definitely does make a big difference to one’s mental state 🙂
Indignation all around!
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Glad it has settled down for the time being!
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For the time being… that’s the operative phrase 😉
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I’d be rather grumpy too… especially if deprived of morning coffee.
We keep a small tank of drinking water plus lots of bottles filled so I’m never deprived of my morning cappuccino… no matter what happens!
Even have the stove top option to use on the gas stove if electricity goes. Yeah… an addict ALWAYS has a way to get her fix! 😉
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I can see you’re prepared, lol! But then again, you’re in a third world country, while I’m supposed to be residing in the “first world”…
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It is all relative 😉 India is such a funny place where 1st to 3rd world coexist
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Yes… I was just thinking that… you can probably find a soy latte without too much of a problem 😉
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No challenge at all! Walk out or door… stumble along the broken sidewalks and voila! Soy latte
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I would have been more sympathetic if it hadn’t been for the “(again)” Sheesh!
You know the old Chinese saying, “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me’ Once you know the water might go off, store some!
Happy birthday to pool boy – Nancy’s kindness was a really great b’day present that will warm him for the rest of his life. A bit of hardship makes the rest of life extra sweet.
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Yes, that poor pool boy! He’d be in bed with pneumonia now if it hadn’t been for Nancy, I’m convinced.
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I listen to a story just the other day on the podcast, The Moth. The writer said his mantra was something like, May I feel like I feel when I’m about to eat cake.
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YESSSSS! It’s all in the anticipation 😉
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Cake makes everything better. I can’t imagine what it’d be like to have no water, but at least it seems like they’re expeditious about it.
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If only… Last month, we were without hot water for an entire week. Grrrr! Luckily, it was still very hot, so cold showers didn’t kill us.
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Yikes! That’s a really long time…If I didn’t have hot water now, I’d freeze! The heat’s not yet been turned on, so I have hot showers to warm myself up!
I’m curious about what you cooked with those ingredients 🙂
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I’m about to have one of those (hot showers).
Stir fry 🙂
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Share share that’s fair!
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OMG, I would be terribly grumpy in that situation. Anything that affects the, ahem, sanitary facilities is anathema to me. That is why I do NOT go camping. My cures for grumpiness are orange juice, chardonnay, potato chips and Ciarán Hinds. Not necessarily in that order 🙂
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I hate camping! Another thing we’ve got in common 😉
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Brutal…
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I know, such inconveniences do not scare any datcha-dwelling Russian!
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I hope it stays on for the weekend! 🙂 🙂
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It will, if the leaflet’s anything to go by 😉
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Yes, there is always cake! And, in my case, Digestive Biscuits. Just landed in London and took care of the priorities: a curry and digestives, to make sure my day ends great, even if the beginning was not great.
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Why, what happened??? Are the storm warnings wreaking havoc on the flight schedules?
Plain, Milk Choc, Dark Choc or Caramel…?
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No no all is well here…just a mess going to the airport, massive headaches, generally unhappy…
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Aw, I hope you can shake it and enjoy the weekend in lovely London. I so miss it…!
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oh plain…I am true to my roots. I do stray into dark chocolate on occasion.
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I love them all. Especially dark choc and also caramel 🙂
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