Kami Tak Ada Air!

For some reason we have been without water for three days this week.  The first day we actually called a plumber who came and then left without doing anything except charging me $60.  This made all my neighbors mad since it was about 10 times too much.  

Now that actually made me feel good because where we lived before it was even hard for us to get our "friends" to tell us what a fair price was for something.  It was like they had a deeper commitment to fellow countrymen that they did not know than to us.  They would just say stuff like, "I dunno how much that should cost.  I don't usually buy it." Or something like that.  Then they'd stand by and watch you get taken.  

The Plumber Day was only for one day though.  Now, we have been without for two days (Friday and Saturday).  Finally the neighbors got the water company to bring by a truck for people to fill up buckets and stuff.  This was the scene this afternoon.  The first photo is really blurry but I posted it so you could see my friend waving.  He was thinking, "You take pictures of the oddest things."

Below is a somewhat clearer version of the same photo with the water guy actually filling a bucket.

These are my waving friend's buckets: that is a bunch in my opinion.
But these things led to an interesting exchange between Angie and her language tutor.  You see everyone, I mean EVERYONE, has a bucket like this in their bathroom.  It gets filled with water and used for various bathroom purposes.  Like taking a quick splash bath since sweat soaked your shirt though for the fifth time.

Well, it turns out we don't have a bucket like this.  So, as they were studying household vocabulary they came to this kind of bucket and the lady was explaining it like that: "the kind of bucket you have in your bathroom".  Then Angie told her we didn't have one.  "What?  You don't have a bucket in your bathroom?"  "No."

"In your bathroom.  You don't have a bucket?" "No."  Then back and forth a few times while the incredulity grew and it sank in.  We do not have a bucket in our bathroom.  We are obviously crazy, weird people.  Who have no bucket and are forced to take a shower all the time.  Sad.

Well, it turns out that those buckets are good for more than just your bathroom since our neighbors all have about 10 times the water that we got from the truck.  Here is our one bucket (we use it for mopping ... well we don't use it for mopping but it is for mopping).

We also had one five gallon jug that we filled.  Since we cannot drink the tap water, we buy filtered water (which Randy still wouldn't drink--only Diet Coke was safe enough for him).  The filtered water comes in these jugs and we just got five new ones today and so we had only one empty jug. 

By the way, the title above means "We don't have water!"  Air = water and is pronounced "Eye-Ear".   And we ain't got none.