Jedi Mind Tricks

Drinking water is one of the few resources you can't get for free on tap here in Poland. You can brush your teeth with it, but it is not potable. So, most people either buy bottled water at the market or they subscribe to a water service. We have had a water service i.e. water cooler since we arrived and I love it. I may even look into the option stateside.

This week, I requested that my water delivery be suspended because I have enough bottles to last until our departure. I needed the Embassy to cancel my regular delivery and set up a time 2 days before we leave to pick up the water cooler. A simple phone call right? Not in Warsaw! The Embassy made the phone call, but apparently no one at Dar Natury got that memo.

Usually, they deliver on Wednesdays in the evening. Tonight, I expected no delivery and I would not have been here anyway because I had a photography class to attend. So, I came home with the kids around 10pm and got my rugrats off to bed (their teachers are going to hate me tomorrow, but I will have great pictures to show for it) and went downstairs to unwind. My kitchen window was slightly open and it was cold so I went to close it and when I look outside there are two 5 gallon jugs of water at the gate. But here is the kicker: the bottles were inside my courtyard, not outside my gate. How I wish I had a surveillance to see how exactly they managed to get 10 gallons of water over my really tall gate! A Jedi mind trick perhaps?

So, now, I have 10 gallons of water that will in all likelihood be frozen by morning. Why not bring them inside? I have had a severe back spasms for months that started when I tried to change out one of those bottles. I am not about to lug two of them up the stairs to the storage area. So, one of two things will happen: The bottles will crack from the freezing cold or Dar Natury better get their truck back here tomorrow and pick them up. I may have them demonstrate their gate trick for me just for fun!