But who can let go of awesome fodder for writing? So here goes another incident in the happening life of yours truly.
Sunday was going on fine. It was
relatively hectic where K and Chiyaa went for a karate class and I had to keep
Pumpki entertained at home for close to 5 hours. The weather did not allow us
to step outside. Managing her with the week’s prep of cooking is hard work. K
and Chiyaa also came back pretty exhausted from a 3 hour long class. All of us
were a bit here and there once we got together around 3 in the afternoon.
To add to the melee, I had ordered some plants online and
they got delivered on Friday. I wanted to plant them since I was sure there
would be no time in the weekdays. But to plant them, I needed K’s help with digging
a biggish hole. He is not a keen gardener. He is the one to get pretty annoyed
with my constant wish to buy plants, pots, to do composting, saving kitchen
water and the whole 9 yards. Well, in this case, it was he who wanted a “tree”
and I had gotten a tree. Well its more a
little plant now, it will eventually grow into a tree :D
K being the unaware gardener thought tree needs big hole, I
dig big hole! (Even though it is a small plant, it does need a big hole for its
root system to establish). He started digging. The problem is there was
something in his way! It was a green pipe. Now we never figured out what this
green pipe was for, but its went across the patch. We planted stuff around it.
One of our neighbours casually mentioned that it might be a cable wire. We do
not watch cable since we stick to online streaming, so the wire wouldn’t matter
to us. But we never got around to doing anything about it. I always thought,
what if I get electrocuted!In fact, I bought extra soil to add and cover the wire.
Sunday evening, K had to dig the hole and this wire was
coming in the way. And he decided to take action. He has all sorts of tools and
being the true bred engineer, he got to work to cut the wire off. As I came
outside to monitor the progress of the hole digging, I noticed that the wire
cutting was nearing completion.
I asked aghast “Why did you cut the wire?”
“Because it kept coming in the way!”
“But are you sure it will not impact anything?”
“See it is a co-axial wire,
must be for tv”
To be honest, I was pretty impressed he knew what a co-axial
cable was and could identify one! My engineer hubby :D
“But are you sure it
will not impact anything?” - I asked
again
“We will soon find out”
K said that with ultimate “K” coolness.
We did find out soon. “Daddddddddddddddddddddy
the TV is not working”. We had the world’s best “We have messed up” look. Notice I say “we”. I am all for team spirit ;)
But if I had even scratched a co-axial cable K’s rant would have made me feel
like turn back time and undo my actions. Being the good Indian wife, I chose to
stand by the husband :D We did some more investigation and found out that the
humble co-axial cable also brought the internet connection home. We have fiber
connection, but its only the “last-leg” that has the funky fiber optics cable.
Those are well hidden. (thank God) Tain tain tainnnnnnnn!!!!
What followed was
frantic calls to the internet provider. Worry over the cost of re-establishment
of internet. Concern over how to get approval from work for a day’s leave in
such short notice. There was close to one hour’s chaos and confusion. All the
while the kids went about moaning, fighting, crying, demanding our attention
and being at their worst behaviour which is typical when there is an emergency
;)
So day after tom from
12-4 the “engineers” will come and hopefully our house will be back on the
world wide web :D :D That was some Sunday action I had not anticipated :D
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