The building next door is being completely rebuilt, minus the front facade. Today they have decided to do .. SOMETHING .. on the side that adjoins our building and right on our level. Jackhammers galore and they sound like they are going to come through the wall.
I promise never to complain about the stupid drummer on the other side again.
Update 1 (15:10): Well, they DID come through the wall. A brick came through anyway. I took pictures. I'll post them when I get home. Ah, at least it's quiet now.
Update 2 (15:33): Noooo.....they just started up again. :(
Update 3:
Here's the photos of the wall breakthrough. It was really funny how I found out that it'd been broke through. The colleague who sits facing this wall all of a sudden yelled out "Mahlzeit!". That's not so odd - it was lunch time and that's what you say at lunch time. It's like a very informal "Enjoy your meal." It's also sometimes used as a greeting. And the fact that he was yelling it wasn't so odd either - we had to yell to hear each other two feet away. So, I yelled back "Mahlzeit!". :) Then he yelled it again and said "Noch ein stuck bitte! Ja, dankeschoen! Mahlzeit!" ("Another piece please! Thank you! Mahlzeit!") Okay, that was weird. So I went to go see what was going on, and this is what I saw. In the third picture you can almost make out the head of a construction worker looking back at me. :)
Did the break hit anyone? Why can't you go home?
Posted by: Mom at May 25, 2004 06:20 PMNope, the brick didn't hit anybody, but it did land next to a colleague. As for going home, it was in the middle of the work day. Geht nicht. In any case, they stopped shortly after they started back up and now they're home. They were being much more careful too after they started back up. Still sounded like they were going to come through again.
Posted by: Anna at May 25, 2004 06:24 PMSo who are the other people in the pictures, besides the construction worker? He was probably afraid that you were going to sue him for damages or lunch - LOL!
Posted by: Mom at May 26, 2004 01:36 AMThe guy in the first photo is Andreas - the one who was yelling "Mahlzeit!" and in the last photo, that's one of my boss's - Lynn - gesturing to the hole.
Posted by: Anna at May 26, 2004 08:00 AM