Hola Amigos,
My friends from Austria arrived well back in Austria. It was a nice time but now I’m back in the daily life with my daily problems.
I told you in my last blog that I had problems with the hot water because there was no hot water at all. My friends have been in Panama from Saturday till Tuesday. The gas powered hot-water boiler didn’t work from Saturday morning. Everything was described in Spanish and frankly speaking I didn’t look at the instruction. Nevertheless I tried every position of the turn switch in front of the boiler but it didn’t work. So I had the pleasure to have a fresh shower every morning and you can imagine how my mood was. There was no chance to receive any help because it was the weekend so I was looking forward to Monday (normally it’s vice versa).
Monday in the office I went directly to my colleague and asked him if he can call a specialist to help me. He said that I’m too stupid to handle it by myself and I just thought that he doesn’t know what he is talking about. Nevertheless my colleague went after office together with me to my flat to fix the problem. We (he) read the description an we tried… push the button to light the flame for 20 sec…. 40 sec… 1 min… it didn’t work. So we followed the instruction but no success. We had to change the strategy and tried everything. We pushed every button, closed and opened the valve… changed everything. From one second to the other the gas boiler started to work normally and we didn’t know why. In that moment it was only important for me to come back from the stone age (cold water!!!) to the 21st century with warm water.
I enjoyed every shower with hot water. Unfortunately I had to make the experience that this pleasure (warm water) shouldn’t be common. Exactly 4 days after the successfully teamwork (between me and my colleague) ended the 21st century for me and I was back in the stone age with cold water. It was Friday morning (5 o’clock) and I was looking for a hot shower. No way!
When I came back from the office I tried to follow the instruction (as far as I understood) but it didn’t work again. Afterwards I tried to push every button again and it worked. Don’t know why!!!
Summarized I can tell you that I was a terribly grumpy in the morning but since I know what it means to have a bad morning (cold shower) I’m completely different now.
Saludos
Jürgen
