Nearly There, Not Long To Go...
We went down to our new house for the first time today, to meet a 'snagger' lady to give the place a quick once-over and see what's broken before we stump up the vast wad of cash and call it 'ours'. The place didn't look too bad really, the odd nick and dent and bit of trim out of place, but everything looked pretty fine and dandy.
I did notice one thing though. The living room is supposed to be 'pre-wired for surround sound', but although I can see where the wires come out of the walls, there are several problems:
- I can't see where the wires go into the walls
- There are only three wires coming out of the walls, and
- They are in totally the wrong places.
This irks me somewhat, but it's nothing a bit of drilling and hammering can't fix.
The other thing was, when we were leaving, two painters came in (they appeared to be eastern European, but that's not important). One of them was smoking a fag in our house. Seeing as the house is actually still a 'building site', and therefore a 'workplace', this is totally illegal, and could incur a hefty fine for the building contractor. Therein lies the dilemma.
Should I inform the relevant authorities, therefore guaranteeing that the aforementioned painters will almost certainly do something bad to my shiny new pad, or should I do 'the Irish thing', and not complain, in the vein of 'ah sure, it's grand'?
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Hmmm....in the interests of keeping our shiny new pad looking shiny and new...I settled instead for one of my vicious dirty looks as we were coming down the stairs.
You probably didnt notice as you were behind me but be assured it would scare the living shite out of the hardest of men.
Did you not hear him quake in his boots as we left.....No?
I really need to work on those dirty looks.
Posted by: NKL | May 24, 2006 2:22 PM
Oh I've seen you're dirty looks, but the ones I get very rarely have any genuine malice or intent in them. I kinda like them actually, they're a different kind of 'dirty'. :-P
I didn't look at them with the most friendly expression on my face either, I must admit. I should've grabbed the fag from his mouth, put it out in his eye, and yelled 'there's NO FUCKING SMOKING IN MY HOUSE, OKAY?', while stamping on his foot and punching him in the whatchamacallits. But I'm far too nice.
Posted by: Matt | May 24, 2006 2:27 PM
All this coming from the SMOKER!
Can I quote you on that ("NO FUCKING SMOKING IN MY HOUSE, OKAY?") in ohhh a months time?!
Posted by: NKL | May 24, 2006 2:33 PM
No. I was making a point, in a very roundabout fashion.
Posted by: Matt | May 24, 2006 2:36 PM
I don't think that you should say anything, the dudes may get sacked, and that wouldn't be nice! Just say that there is a "smell of smoke" in there, don't single anyone out perhaps.
Nikki I think that you need to practice giving dirty looks more, I can show you my now infamous "The Sarah Look" which has been captured on camera a few times, it could literally kill. So there!
Posted by: Babs | May 24, 2006 3:38 PM
Expecting a builder not to smoke is site is like expecting me not to check out norks.
Just not going to happen.
Posted by: Adrian | May 24, 2006 4:45 PM
That's true, but smoking in a workplace is ILLEGAL in Ireland. If checking out norks was illegal, you'd either not be doing it, or you'd be very poor, or you'd be in jail, comprende?
Posted by: Matt | May 24, 2006 5:16 PM
Smoking dope is also ILLEGAL in Ireland ...
Posted by: Adrian | May 24, 2006 9:37 PM
Ha-ha! Norks!!
Posted by: Babs | May 25, 2006 8:37 AM