Discussed the delivery time with the furniture factory in the morning. Told the gal and later a guy that I have to be away from 345pm to 430pm (picking Kristine from her bus stop, and sending her to piano practice). Guess what time the bed arrived?
340pm.
These guys drove from Changzhou, about 90 mins away from Beijing, and they had other deliveries to make after that. It would be very cruel to make them wait 45mins. Out of desperation, I asked the general cleaning lady for help, giving her the home keys so she can let the delivery guys enter and assemble the beds. She speaks with an accent that I cannot understand most of the time, but we got alone just fine. She even asked me if I needed flower pots other tenants left behind. We gave her some excess mooncakes several weeks ago and she obviously appreciates our gesture.
The beds, known to Kimberley as 'the Up and Down bedroom', is their playground too, with the upper bunk the most popular. I am encouraging Kristine and Kimberley to practise climbing up and down the bunks this evening. Kristine, adopting the upper bunk is the one who may need to climb down during the middle of night to pee. Kimberley is occupying the bottom bunk. My guess is even if she needs to pee during the night, she won't bother getting up. She will just pee in the bed.
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