That? Me, after getting a phone call from Chebbar (the poor bugger). The exterminator came today to take care of the ants (who haven't made an appearance since Sunday - go figure), so Chebbar had gone around removing stuff from near the exterior walls - I guess what she does is drill tiny holes in the baseboards and fill 'em with a water-based vapour to kill the ants. She had originally told him that she'd only be doing the exterior wall, so he didn't move anything on any of the other walls. When he got home (he had to vacate the premises - oh, did you know that if you spray so much as Raid in your house, you're supposed to get out for a couple of hours until the chemicals settle/clear? Yeah, I didn't when I ATE MY BREAKFAST after drowning the little suckers last week!), he found stuff moved on all the perimeter walls (even though they're inside the building, not outside).
I have a metal stand with a big, glass bowl that I got a hundred years ago at a Candle Lite-type party that housed a sizeable aloe plant, that sits in the corner between the fireplace and the chair. The fireplace "hearth" is made up of those pebbled paving stones (don't ask: they were there when I bought the place). There was also a... decorative
According to Chebbar, he moved the chair back into place without first moving the plant stand because, "like an idiot," he didn't think it would be in the way.
Well, he was wrong.
He ended up knocking the plant stand with the chair. The plant stand fell over on top of the angel. One of the angel's arms busted off and the pedestal was obliterated. The edge of the glass bowl then made contact with the hearth and exploded. The plant fell on the floor, loosening a bunch of the... fronds (?).
In one fell swoop, he UNdecorated half my living room by "removing" stuff I don't have a snowball's chance in hell of replacing.
The poor guy was quietly apologizing on repeat while I sat there going "Oh my god! Oh my god!" I think I shocked him when I started laughing - he thought for sure I'd be upset. Don't get me wrong: I liked both those pieces or else they wouldn't be on display in my home, but I don't have a connection to them: it's not like he took a sledge hammer to my collection of tea cups and saucers from my Great Grannie. All I could do was laugh because this is SO something that would happen to me - a domino effect of death and destruction to someone else's stuff.
I think this is gonna get me some guilt points in the bank. Hehe*
(She's crying cuz her pedestal's all busted to shit.)
*I'm totally joking, for the record. We don't operate that way.
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