Opened a pack of Albatross deodorizer for our Comfort Room today.
Thought of the apartment I grew up in Tabuc where the Comfort Room smells.
Something about the pipes made it so there was a pungent scent when you enter.
Squatter’s area- everyone was trying everything to save money (pipe hijacking) that it’s messing up how the pipes are supposed to work. There was a jolt of mild electric shock whenever we were bathing because the neighbors were also trying to ‘reverse polarity’ their electric circuits to trick the electric meters into registering lower Kilowatt consumption.
Mama would always buy loads of Albatross deodorizers so we can cope with such olfactory disaster.
When the electric shocks were too strong we would bath outside the front door.
Band-aid solutions.
When everything became too much to tolerate, Mama called in a few people who could fix both the pipes and the circuits.
She became public enemy number 1 in just a few hours because it means actually fixing the problem will mess with the systems in place.
The people of the system will always try to protect the existing system.
Try to break free and you become the enemy.
You can be silent and not do anything about your situation and be permanently semi-depressed and not have enemies.
Or you can powder your balls, salute the flag, prepare for war and actually nip problems from the source.
Happy Thursday, go get what’s yours.