You wouldn’t suspect it from looking at her. She’s pretty old, in her early fifties at least and inflicted with a constant need to shift eyes, lips and hands. She comes across as harried, constantly on the brink of a major breakdown and pretty lost; I don’t blame her, having seen and spoken to some of her clients/tenants. Maybe it’s a typically asian trait, but the tenants I’ve seen think nothing of harassing the management, as if paying rent has made the right to be an ass inherent and divine. You could see, however, that she had been beautiful in her youth (I wonder why I made that observation).
“So, if I hire contractor A to do maintenance, and in the course of doing work for somebody else in my building, contractor A fouls up, aren’t I vicariously responsible since, if the cause of the damage was due to a blockage, and I hire contractor A to do my maintenance, shouldn’t contractor A be held liable for incompetence?” she fires the whole salvo at me.
I blinked, my jaws tried to work and I saw her in a completely new light.
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