Monday, 8 September 2008

Dealings with my pipol (Vol 2 – An Update)

Monday 8TH September 2008

CONTAINER
Our container finally came on Saturday after the extortionate agent had taken an additional 330 pounds off me and wanted to take even more. We had a nice verbal exchange of words where I told him I was fed up paying for their incompetence and so on and so forth…

COOKER
Today is the day that the house of Park n’ Shop shall fall like a pack of cards, BANZAI/SHINTOOOO!!!

HOUSE
The flip side of the hassle of workmen is that they are unbelievably in-expensive compared to the UK. We got in our own carpenter who planed down the doors and they open nicely now, an electrician put in light bulbs in all the lights (fancy paying for an electrician in the UK to replace light bulbs) and we have a new house help who is helping Madam unpack. Not a bad result.

DSTV GUY
DSTV guy showed up at last but the DSTV did not work until Sunday when I was fiddling with it and realized that it was due to the new fangled set top box being on pause or slo mo or something…

we are getting there, step by step...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

you will,with time.

Anonymous said...

Hey,

I haven't been here in a while, glad to see you're keeping up with the blogging.

Man I feel your pain regarding the container etc. I know how irritating that must have been. Did every thing arrive intact? What about stealing? Anything missing?

Keep your head up.
regards
Ai

Anonymous said...

don't forget to buy health insurance for the family! most likely you'll make tons of trips to the doctor in the next year (personal experience).

Unknown said...

Drax...anxiously awaiting what happened to Park n’ Shop!!!

Dami said...

you paid someone to put up light bulbs??? nahh you didnt!


with all the bad customer service in naija, I'd expect people to be using Molotov cocktails to get their own back! then spray 'bad customer service' on the building afterwards!