THE LONGEST DAY ON MY WORK LIFE by Carlos

                             

The longest day  on my work life was when a coworker and I had to leave to Formigal to unclog a pipe in a restaurant which was placed at 2,000 metres above sea level.

My coworker and I arranged to meet at five o'clock in the morning at work.

We prepared the vehicle with all the tools and we headed to Formigal.

I  remember we arrived at Formigal at about eight o'clock.  First thing we did was to have a coffee.

It was winter and it was very cold, there were a lot of snow and it wasn't sunny at all.

When we finished the coffee, we went to the ski resort.  There,  some workers from Aramon were waiting for us,  and we were talking about how we were going to do the job.

I must explain to you, we usually for these types of work we use special cars equipped with water pumps and a hose to introduce into the pipes.  However in that ocassion it would not be possible because we couldn't go with this vehicle up to 2,000 meters in the mountain.

So, in that ocassion we had to climb just with a portable machine to unclog the pipes.

Can you wonder it???? How on earth were we going to climb to the top of mountain carrying a portable machine????

Well, we carried the portable machine tied to a chair lift and my coworker and I next to it.

IT WAS A CRAZY!!!!!!! But  we arrived to the restaurant on the mountain without any problem.

Once there we went to the restaurant and we started our work. Unfortunately for us the restaurant had closed after its construction all the pipe registers, I mean  there wasn't any valve box pipes, so we could just disassemble a toilet to put the hose through the toilet but it wasn't possible. We needed the help of a mason. He would have to perforate the floor of the restaurant to find one register.

And here, we arose out of another problem. The  boss of the restaurant said to us he wouldn't let us perforate the floor before they had finished serving all the meals.  He said that would be possible at about five o'clock p.m or so.

Until then we didn't make anything.  Thus my coworker and I went to the village.  It was approximately eleven o'clock so we went for a walk around the village and after, we went to have lunch. After eating, we decided to return to the restaurant where we were working again to see how the matter was.  It was half past four.

We got on the chair lift again. When we arrived up, the worker of the chair lift said to us that he was going to finish his work at six o'clock, so we would have to hurry up but everything was going very slowly.  

When we arrived at the restaurant, the mason was still perforating the floor, once he finished we started our work.  However to unclog that pipe was very hard and it took a long time but at the end we did it.

When we looked at the time  uffffffff!!!!!!!!!!  It was six o'clock. We picked up everything hastily and we quickly went to the chair lift but the worker of the chair lift didn't want to go down with us.

We made a phone call to the Aramon's workers but they said to us we would have to wait for the machine that carries the food supplies to the restaurant at night.  IT WAS INCREDIBLE, I SAID TO MYSELF!!!!!!!

Thus we had to wait until ten at night when the machine arrived. It was very cold on the journey in that machine. We reached to the village at half past eleven p.m and then we headed to Zaragoza. 

We arrived  at  Zaragoza  at two o'clock and I arrived home at quarter past two. 

WITHOUT A DOUBT,  IT WAS THE LONGEST DAY ON MY WORK LIFE.

How many hours was I away from home that day??? Do you know it????