Toilet Troubles Part Deux

Well the plumber did indeed come back and boy did he stay for a while! He ended up arriving at 10am and staying until 7pm! I felt like I was in In House Suspension (without a bathroom break!) We still had the same problem of me not speaking any French and him not speaking any English, so I was pretty much in silence for the entire day (which you all know is something I don't like :). The landlady told us he was a plumber, but after his fifth trip to the hardware store to get yet another part, I started to wonder. At one point he just left with his tools and all (and not saying anything to me.) After 30 min. I started to wonder if he was coming back and after an hour I called the landlady, who called him, and reassured me that indeed he was coming back...it just turned out to mean 2 and a half hours later. After that little break he managed to make water come flooding out of one of the toilets--so much so that I had to give him one of our towels to soak it up, and the towel was never to be seen again.

During all of this time, I couldn't use the bathrooms (obviously). After waiting for a few hours, I finally had to resort to leaving the plumber in the apartment alone and calling on a favor from one of my few friends here. I was so thankful that I am a 'local' at Dukes and had to run down and ask Guiseppe if I could use his restroom. Thankfully he at least seemed to recognize me and didn't seem to mind.

Finally, the plumber seemed to be finished at 7pm, but he still hadn't fixed the facucet in the kitchen that runs for a little bit after you turn it off. I pointed this out to him and he seemed to motion a lot in French. Finally I got out my French translation book and pointed for him to look up the word he was trying to say and point it out to me. He ended up pointing to the word neuf that meas the number nine in English. I am totally guessing here, but I think he was trying to say that the faucet is new so he can't fix it...or something like that. Kyle thought he was saying that he would be back the next day at nine to fix it. So the next day we got up and were ready for him, but he never showed up, so we have resorted to assuming he meant that it was new and he can't fix it. Oh well!