Trychydts in English

My office is on a straight corridor. The rooms open to the corridor, and also to the adjacent rooms — so you can hear quite well what’s going on at your neighbours. The room left to mine is empty. On the right, my neighbor is a young mother, who apparently comes to work to make her phone calls. If I am not downright busy, I simply cannot help overhearing her.

8.15 am. Her son calling. He doesn’t want to go to kindergarten. Twenty minutes chatting with the young man to convince him that kindergarten is fun.

10.23 am. She is calling Aunt Gizi, the sister of her recently died father. Aunt Gizi’s sister is obviously a bitch, since my neighbor (let’s call her Anita) complains about her at least fifteen minutes every time she calls Gizi. Making plans about Christmas. Anita’s husbad is also well. More complaints about Aunt Gizi’s sister. Hangs up after an approxiamtely 30 minutes talk.

12.30. Lunch break.

13.44. Time the call the waterworks. Anita calls them at least twice a week. Her water-meter is not working correctly, it needs to be fixed. She ordered it from the waterworks via fax, e-mail and phone and still nothing has happened since 3rd December. Some frustrated conversation with the customer service department.

14.08. Informing her husband about the proceeding with the waterworks.

14.32. Calling the bank. Wow, at least some new story. Unfortunately, it is a real nasty business. They had a 21-million forints mortgage at one of the largest bank in Hungary. The bank then unilaterally changed the costs of the mortgage, so they paid it back. Six month later the bank wrote them a letter humbly asking for 160.000 HUF because of miscalculating something. They even put some interest on it, at least six months passed and time is obviously money. They do not really care that is was not Anita’s and her husband’s fault. Serious shouting with the lady at the bank’s customer service department, promises that she (Anita) will even bring this case to God, but she will not pay. At least there are some results: they have some chance that after all they will not need to pay because of the bank’s fault.

15.07. Some hopeful conversation with her husband.

15.15. Calling her mother-in-law who looks after her son. After all, he went to the kindergarten, the lunch was O.K. and he is fine.

16.24. After a hard day’s work, leaving six minutes earlier.