The Heat Is Not On

So I forgot to tell you that last weekend when I cooked the veggie pizza crust, I had to do it in my friend's oven because mine is not working. Twenty minutes after it's turned on to 425, it SHOULD be so hot that one cannot grab the rack and hold it without burning oneself.

I could. Hence, I needed a different oven.

I used his and it baked up fine, but the broken oven will need to be fixed. Cue yesterday morning when I called up to get maintenance to fix it.

So I call, and it says on the answering thing that they will CALL you back. They didn't. I went to work and left my phone on vibrate so that if they did I would catch it. Nope. No call.

So I get home last night. There's a note on my counter that maintenance did come in, but the note only says: "Oven not working. Use on-off switch to get oven to work." I initially assume that the note is meant to insult my intelligence and tell me to use the on-off switch (that part actually works. It's the heating bit that doesn't.) Then I notice a little group of numbers that include 11 and today's date.

Due to the vagueness of the note, I assume that those numbers correspond to a time and date when maintenance will return to my place to fix the damn stove.

SO we come to this morning, 11 AM. Nothing. No call, no person. I call at 11:30, getting slightly steamed about this whole business.

She says she'll send out maintenance right away. OK! Progress...

OR NOT. At 1:30, I have to call them AGAIN, asking why no one has turned up from maintenance to fix the stove.

Turns out that they have ordered parts for the stove and will be back soon to fix it for good.

That's great. Wonderful. Peachy. But WHY did it take TWO phone calls to get someone to tell me this? Don't they think this all could have been saved by the original maintenance guy writing a CLEAR note saying HAVE ORDERED PARTS? Three little words! Not so hard!

Or calling? That would have been nice. I gave them my phone number. Not so hard, either.

Likely (as I've stated to other people) the fumigators that do the cupboards and the stove guys will turn up at the same time and both want the space. It's not that big of a kitchen. Someone may have to wait their turn.

Ah, Murphy. Your damn law never fails to come around and try to flip my life like a pancake. All I can do is laugh sometimes.

I will try and update you on the Great Oven Fix and Cupboard Fumigation when they all come rushing in my place to do things to it. Let's hope no one shorts out the electricity (unless they're gonna zap the roaches.)

Ta,
Bec