8:45am
Saar showed up 15 minutes late. Then his computer wouldn't connect to the server. 15 attempts, all failed. Rebooted the machine, no go. rebooted modem, no go. Then one fellow showed up with a cloth, dusted the plugs, disconnected and connected the keyboard, fiddle some more with the plug etc. Success around 9.10 or so!
Then the person before me (we had an interesting chat, by the way - his nephew had stolen the land where they had a common sump. What to do? Plus he was all praise for Amma for fixing the auto chaps.) took five minutes gathering together his Rs 347. Change in one fold of his veshti, tens in another, hundreds in a third etc.
Anyway I paid and got my receipt. Turns out I was lucky: the computer had been down the previous two weeks. Felt like some MAD magazine 'A day at the Metrowater payment counter'!
What a great country we live in!
Saar showed up 15 minutes late. Then his computer wouldn't connect to the server. 15 attempts, all failed. Rebooted the machine, no go. rebooted modem, no go. Then one fellow showed up with a cloth, dusted the plugs, disconnected and connected the keyboard, fiddle some more with the plug etc. Success around 9.10 or so!
Then the person before me (we had an interesting chat, by the way - his nephew had stolen the land where they had a common sump. What to do? Plus he was all praise for Amma for fixing the auto chaps.) took five minutes gathering together his Rs 347. Change in one fold of his veshti, tens in another, hundreds in a third etc.
Anyway I paid and got my receipt. Turns out I was lucky: the computer had been down the previous two weeks. Felt like some MAD magazine 'A day at the Metrowater payment counter'!
What a great country we live in!
