No water, what would you do?
By Toni
@toniganzon (72532)
Philippines
August 16, 2023 6:28pm CST
My French friend who has been living in Malaysia for 6 years now sent me a message yesterday: no water in their condo.
No water in a condominium in KL City? I was surprised. A maintenance is being done (on weekdays?!) and there wouldn't be water from Wednesday until the afternoon of Thursday. So he had to fetch water from a water refilling station and bring it up to their unit!
Told him if it had happened here, we would have slept at a hotel. So this morning, I got a message from him how uncomfortable it was and if there's still no water, he and his wife will move to a hotel.
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13 responses
@kaylachan (71918)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Aug 23
Life happens. I know a few families displaced due to electrical issues and flooding. It isn't that strange, it happens. Even in well-developed countries.
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Aug 23
A terrible thing to carry your own bucket going up to your condo unit though.
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Aug 23
This has happened in your hometown? I have never experienced it at all.
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@flapiz (23153)
• United Kingdom
23 Aug 23
@toniganzon Yeah we used to get this a lot back when I was in elementary.
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Aug 23
That should have been done. That's why I couldn't understand. And maintenance on a weekday, where people go to work and students go to school? Couldn't they have done it on a weekend instead?
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Aug 23
@LadyDuck Right. But my friend told me that in Kuala Lumpur, they just do that on a whim without proper planning.
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@LadyDuck (472087)
• Switzerland
22 Aug 23
@toniganzon Exactly! They could manage to do the maintenance during the weekend. People could have planned a short two days vacation and there were no problems.
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@LindaOHio (181931)
• United States
17 Aug 23
I would hate to have to do without water. We would be unable to haul water. Enjoy your day.
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Aug 23
Right and I can just imagine going to the toilet and not having enough water to flash the dirt down. Ugh!
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
23 Aug 23
@LindaOHio Exactly why it is such a big inconvenience.
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@LindaOHio (181931)
• United States
22 Aug 23
@toniganzon That's gross for sure!
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@RebeccasFarm (90481)
• Arvada, Colorado
17 Aug 23
I wonder why there is no water in the first place..that is terrible Toni.
Well if I could afford to go to a hotel I might.
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Aug 23
It did. Nevertheless, it was a terrible thing to experience.
@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Aug 23
Imagine going to the toilet and having no water to flash it! I can't simply stay even just for a day in a place with no water.
@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Aug 23
Still it is still such an inconvenience. I would have gone to a hotel.
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@JESSY3236 (20039)
• United States
22 Aug 23
Many years ago I was living in a trailer park and sometimes we had no water because debris in the well or once they put a new well. When the power would go out, I wouldn't have any water. Sometimes when that happened, I had to come to my uncle's house.
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
23 Aug 23
At least you have an uncle's house to go to. Not having water is such an inconvenience.
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