Yet another Taiwan WTF moment

Bill had a rough night. Kai pulled a Jacky Chen and high-kicked him in
the upper back in the middle of the night. Apparently I almost nudged
him off the bed at one point. Then we were woken up by a 5.1
earthquake. When Kai finally got us out of bed at 7 in the morning,
Bill wanted to go back to sleep for another hour.

Kai and I played, had breakfast, and we started wrapping dishes in
bubble-wrap so we can pack them up later. Bill woke up and went to the
kitchen to check his email. Then two cigarette-smoking, betelnut-
chewing workers walked onto our patio and started moving our patio
furniture!! We were in our underwear and PJs!! I hurried into the
bedroom to put a top on and went out to ask why they were here. The
first one I talked to took one quick look at me, grabbed a chair, and
walked away without making a sound. The other one answered matter-of-
factly, in that "I can't believe you're asking me this question" tone,
"We're hired by your landlord to fix the leak on the sixth floor. In
order to do that, we'll have to jackhammer the entire patio up to look
for leaks. Now where would you like us to put your stuff?"

"Hell no, you're not!" I thought. I told them not to do or touch
anything until I talk to the landlord.

So they lit up a cigarette right outside our patio door (Nope, they
didn't ask if it was okay. They didn't care. It's Taiwan. Worker dudes
like them all smoke, and they didn't need to ask a chick for
permission). I called the landlord:

Me: "There are two workers here mow saying that they're gonna
jackhammer the pato."

LL: "Yes. I hired them to fix the leak."

Me: "And what do you expect us to do? We're moving out in a couple of
weeks. Can't you wait until then?"

LL: "Kate, I'm sorry, but you should see the bathroom on the 6th
floor. You'll feel bad for the family on the 6th floor, too if you've
seen it. We have to fix it now. They have to do it today."

Me: "I know it's been leaking downstairs, but you could've called..."

LL: "Hello? Hello? .... I can't hear you. Hello?"

And she hung up.

I called her and she called me, but both times she played the "bad
connectioon" trick.

So I took Kai to my mom's today while Bill held down the fort. The
workers stopped at noon claiming they couldn't continue working
because it would rain soon (well, it didn't have a cloud in the sky
then). Bill suspected it was because they turned up the side of the
patio where the neighbor's bathroom is and couldn't find the leaks.

They'll be back at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, and the next day, and
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