Toilet Saga Continues

Plumber arrives at 9:30 this morning. Comes in with giant snake and reams toilet. Comes out of WC and says “Work good now, no more problem”. I thank him and walk him to the door. When I return to the WC I realize I’ll have to scrub and disinfect again and this time include scrubbing the walls. There are… um…things on the walls. So I scrub and clean and finish the job by cleaning the toilet bowl last and flushing it. Water pours from the pipe that comes out of the back of the toilet. Floor is once again flooded, but heck at least the bowl isn’t backed up, now the water just flows directly to the floor.

Keeping cool I ponder what to do next. Call landlord and explain that problem is not solved? The man speaks less than zero English. Call the plumber back? Think I have to go through landlord so he knows there’s still a problem. So I go on line, translate two short sentences, call the landlord and deliver my lines. Silence on the other end. Then he says, he’ll call the plumber. As I hang up I’m suddenly picturing how this call will go. I imagine the plumber will say he’s already been here and M Babec will assume he misunderstood me and that I must have just been calling to tell him the plumber had been here and let it go. I’ll wait until tomorrow and see if plumber shows up. Thank goodness there is another bathroom upstairs.

Another photo of a church courtyard in Avignonet-Lauragais.