Things could not get any worse.
Or you have seen it all......
Life always has funny ways to shock you.
Including our building manager who told us we would be sharing an apartment with some stranger (her brother's friend).
Robert and I have been sleeping in an empty apartment for the past few nights due to the lack of extra beds that could be placed in our living room (because his parents were visiting).
Everything went ok except for last night when the building manager whom I am sure happened to see us downstairs, casually mentioned that a man would be sleeping outside in the living room.
She even very coolly told us that there is nothing to worry. We will be in the room and he would be in the living room and we can lock the room door and they will be keeping the keys to the room.
I go toilet how? The toilet is common in the living area lor.
That's besides the point.
I had thought it was extremely rude and disrespectful.
In fact when she told us, she had already let the guy into the apartment.
And we had the keys to the apartment too, ready to pop in there to sleep any moment.
To cut the long story short, of course I had to be the bad person and told her
"Of course not. Would YOU sleep with a stranger in your living room?"
Of course she tried to explain how come he was there.... the other room was not vacated as expected therefore she put him in the apartment given to us. She meant to tell us (but it was 9.30pm and she was walking out of the apartment with her bag and keys when she saw us. Hmmmmmmmm........).... all kinds of excuses lah.
Robert asked her "why don't you ask him to sleep in the living room of unit 2A then?" (the apartment that was supposed to be vacated for him but was not.)
To which she had no reply.
In the end she asked him to leave.
I was really pissed....... Even though Robert was quite right that they do not owe us an extra bed but I felt that it was rude to just let someone into an apartment you gave to us to sleep in and expect us to be ok with it. At least we should have been informed earlier and something could be worked out nicely.
Is this a difference in culture?
Or just plain disrespect and lack of courtesy?
I don't know....
In fact, they didn't even inform us about the extra bed situation till the night before when we could not do anything.
I asked curtly if the guy slept on the bed and she said no.
It would be rather yuck if he slept there and the sheets and pillow cases were not changed.
But even then, I slept there last night and I really wouldn't know.
Oh. And her apology, was not even apologetic!
I am still shocked thinking about it!
I kept wondering..... What if she didn't happen to see us outside the building and didn't inform us.
What are we going to do when we go into the apartment to find a total stranger there?
Can I kick him out?
What if he refuses to leave?
Although it didn't happen but it really could have.
Amazing things do happen!