A third-floor house with a steep rent in a compound that was both beautiful and uptight about its visitors and the agent found himself fumbling for words in front of me to apologize because the house that he had called me for to see at sharp 14:00 couldn't be seen.
Apparently, the renters who were inside the house due to leave by next week didn't want anyone coming inside for some reason and the agent couldn't get a word in sideways regarding the same.
I sat for almost an hour in their clubhouse. My driver gave the agent angry glares and told him how unprofessional he has been and the dishonour such tardiness and unprofessionalism brings to his profession and that too in front of a foreigner. How could he waste our time like this..so on and so forth. It was almost a heated argument when I intervened and politely told the agent that we needed to leave because the clubhouse coffee in that compound was rancid and because I didn't wish to sit and wait any longer, in fact, I have blacklisted that house and that compound from my viewing and I told the agent to not show me any more houses in that compound.
The agent was extremely apologetic and thought that he had somehow offended me. Of course, that's not true but he wouldn't believe me when I said so and he kept his head hung low as I left.
Anyway, that was my day and now home I have eaten a bit and feeling refreshed I'm ready for the day.
I don't wish to crib about this but Shanghai summers are so awfully humid and unbearable. Yes, we have come to that point of weather again when the heat becomes stifling because of the extreme humidity and all I can do is complain. Just sitting here makes me want to switch on all the aircons of this house.
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