Making Money with Hotel

See, I only stayed in one place with a permanent maintainance man. You can probably guess it was the place run by the Belgians in Kathmandu. He was fixing their toilet, their painting, fixing a chair that had broken.

In Pokhara, in one hotel, I broke the sink in my bathroom. Now, for sure, in this country i would not have been able to: we fix our sinks real well. However, my flip-flops caused me to slip on the floor. I grab the sink for support, the sink flies off the wall and lands on the floor, and smashes. Also, hits my toe, causing me to need to do clean a bleeding toe up and make sure i am not going to get infected if i walk around in sandals.

This was my fault, the sink was not hanging off the wall. However, in my hundrth of a second, I assume the sink will hold my weight and stop me from falling onto the floor. My sink at home would have! However, I could have chosen to grab the towel-rail. Mine at home would not have helped me. The one in nepal may well have. I tested it afterward- maybe would have done.

They got the sink replaced, and I payed them for the sink, not the labour. They had a friend who did the labour. I think I paid Rs2000 nepali, or not a lot of money for me. About what I get paid for an hour and a half of work.

Now, in the new room they gave me, the sink was much sturdier. Investigating the scene afterward, the broken sink was hald up by 2 bits of angle steel stuck intot he wall, and it balanced on top. One bit of steel had corroded seriously, and just snapped off. Because the pipe-work was plastic flexible tube, this did not steady the basin.

a hundred reasons why my sink at home is stronger. However, one main one: I would not allow my water to leak for so long that it corroded a peice of inch-inch angle steel.