Extracts from a recent exchange of e-mails between me and my buddy K. on my own sad hopes and dreams about the bathroom being finished at last(I've rearranged the order for your reading pleasure):



----- Original Message -----

From: "Francis Strand"

To: "K."

Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:42 AM

Subject: RE: it's friday



Tell her I said "hej" and have fun!



(The tiles and mirror are now in the WC, and the toilet and lights are

supposed to be in when I get home... it looks fanfuckingtastic!)



-----Original Message-----

From: K.

Sent: den 14 December 2001 17:50

To: Francis Strand

Subject: Re: it's friday





I just had to laugh. and laugh and laugh and laugh at your "the toilet and

lights are supposed to be in when I get home."



Poor Francis. So trusting. So innocent.



Well, you just go ahead and enjoy that toilet and those lights this weekend!



-----Original Message-----

From: Francis Strand

Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:45 AM

To: K.

Subject: Re: it's friday





Oh, shite. I AM such a pathetic idiot, aren't I.



Addendum added at 11.26 p.m.: Sadly, K. was all too right to laugh. Lights, yes; toilet, no. The contractor wins this round, yet again.



- by Francis S.