As I looked through a big, ragged hole in the false ceiling at exposed pipes and heard my neighbour’s sewage gurgling, I asked myself whether I was stupid to have delayed fixing the lively leak which led to its collapse.
I postponed an appointment with a plumber when I got a sore throat because my first thought was to not risk making him sick. But would other people have gone ahead with it and thought I was stupid to take precautions?
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