FREE TROUBLE (8 july 2004)
In earlier weblogs (cllick, click, click) you could have read there's been a lot of noise below the apartment that I live in.
This has been going day after day for about nine months.
It's all quite easy to say that building work just has to be done -- especially if you don't have to endure the noise yourself.
I don't know if you have ever experienced the racket produced by hacking away four hundred square yards of concrete. But it's a volume of noise that nobody can stand for more than a few minutes. This went on for over three weeks!
So all I could do was leave my apartment during the day, just to avoid getting completely crazy.
But the residents of the apartments above the building work had been promised a three-month free ticket for the fitness hall that was being built downstairs -- not something I would profit from: I have always considered fitness a waste of time. So why start practising it because it's free?
Alright, the fitness hall is almost finished now.
But, you may wonder, did any of my neighbours get a free ticket?
No way! It turns out that the people who started the building work are not the same as those who finished it. So why compensate anybody?
Thanks, David Lloyd!
Now at least we know that not all Welshmen (click) are gentlemen.
