"When will I get my money?"
It's last Thursday evening. Christine and I were enjoying a DVD, when all of a sudden Christine's mobile bleeped, indicating that she had received an SMS. Oh dear, Nasty Little Nezio was after his money again. Hadn't he warned us that if he hadn't been paid by the end of December, he'd take "further steps"? Well, if "further steps" means sending us an angry SMS every once and a while... that's ok with us. :-D We're actually beginning to find it amusing. At first Christine thought it wise not to respond. But then she changed her mind and wrote:
"When you'll finally reply to our sollicitor's letter."
By doing so, she thought she could kill two birds with a single stone. One, to shut him up for good, and two, to have him put something on paper we could use against him. Ah... isn't she a genius?
"So... is this how you want to play it? I thought that Danilo and I had come to visit you in order to work something out!", he still replied.
But we left it at that. The DVD was far too exciting and his text message was only a bad joke. It hardly brought a grin to our face. "Work something out"... huh! Did he really mean that? He's even more daft than we imagined. And that was already very high on the fruitcake-scale! Besides, our funny friend Nezio still hasn't got a clue about what else we have in store for him. Our sollicitor had already contacted an expert to come to our house and have a look at the damages. About time too because the water problem is getting worse. The man was shocked by what he saw and didn't leave a shred of doubt that it is caused by bad or non-existent drainage.
"I'll come back within a couple of days with my wife, who also is a geometer, to take some pictures", he said and advised us: "Don't pay a single penny to anyone for now!"
Something which we weren't going to do anyway, so we liked his advice very much. He also asked us to make a hole behind the house so he and his wife could see actually how deep this so-called drainage was laid. I was about half a metre down when I found this:
You can see that I arrived at the gravel with which the "drainage" is covered. And with the gravel I found something which can rightly be called an underground lake. The more I removed the gravel by hand, the more standing water I found. Obviously this is the ground water level and when this level rises during moist days, it enters our foundations. When we've had a dry period such as the past two weeks, the level drops and our internal walls dry up again. Obviously, the "drainage" doesn't work at all! We have this Nasty Little... and Big Bad Danilo by the $ù=#(µ!!! The way things are looking now, it seems to become more likely that Danilo and co will have to pay us a lot more in damages than what they are still claiming from us.
When our sollicitor came to visit us with the expert, she even had more good news for us. The Rovigo judge has concurred with our argument that he isn't competent in this case and that it should be transferred to the court at the buyer's residence. He'll make his final verdict on... THE 12th OF DECEMBER!!! Well, err... if you must... :-D It's that 80-year old animal-mistreating bitch that's after her money, not us. We can wait... and wait... and wait... And so can little Flora! :-D
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