Three
months have gone by and everyone is at home or at least those who can be at
home are at home trying to work from their computers while in quarantine. Many
people have to go to work to care for those who are battling against COVID-19, however
there are some people working who I am questioning whether or not they should
be.
This
morning around 8:00 AM you could hear a lot of banging from the apartment
upstairs. At least I thought it was from the apartment upstairs and later on
found out that it was like 10 floors above. The people there decided to have
their floors redone. Aren't we supposed to be keeping distant from other people?
Don't they realize that there are people working from home? Aren't they aware
that there are kids studying from home?
Sure,
there's a lot of external noise coming in but when it is inside an apartment
building it seems like it's 10 times worse than it really is. I feel sorry for
those people who have to work under these conditions, who are risking their
lives for vanity. What I mean by this is, these people do not have to redo
their floors because there's a leak or a pipe burst, in short, an emergency. They
are just having their floors done because they have decided to take a week off and
go off somewhere in the countryside, therefore; leaving these men in their
apartment to get the work done and not even caring about the other people in
the building.
2020
it's supposed to be a year of compassion, so I thought. The pandemic should
teach you to look around you and start thinking about others who share the
planet with you and not only look into your own little world not giving a hoot
towards others.
At
the beginning of the year, there was a pipe that burst in one of the upper
floors ruining all the apartments below, mine included. The building filed for
the insurance money and last week it was granted. The Superintendent of my building
called me up and said that he would be coming around with the workers to get
the job done, which meant three ceilings and one wall. I was so offended at the
request because I told him that I hadn't seen my family for three months and nobody
was visiting or entering my home but me. He insisted that we take advantage of
the time to get the job done or as he put it “to get it out of the way”. As I
said nothing to his excuse, he added that if I decided to go on a trip, I could
safely leave the men in my apartment working and they would get it done. Appalled,
I returned the question to him asking him where I would be traveling to exactly
since we were supposed to be home physically distancing ourselves from other
people. He laughed nervously for he noticed my irritation and said that if I
changed my mind just to get in touch. I asked him why the rush and he said
there was none. But being that a lot of people were home it would be easier
just to get the job done. I asked him to save my part of the money and when
this was all over, I would give him a call.
I'm
starting to wonder if the noise that we hear in the building is from a neighbor
who decided to get the job done.
Still hoping that people will come
out of this pandemic a wee bit better as humans.
Written: June 16, 2020
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