The moment your Lagos landlord becomes an engineer overnight

My landlord called me yesterday at 7pm. He say the toilet is making noise and I should come and check it. Bros, I am a tech consultant. I write code for a living. The only pipe I know is the one I smoke data through.

I get there and he is standing with a spanner and a torch, wearing slippers and a singlet. He has already watched two YouTube videos. Now he is explaining to me that the problem is the 'flapper valve' and we need to 'dislodge the sediment'. I am just looking at my toilet like it's a server rack.

Thirty minutes later, water is everywhere. He says 'the video lied to us.' I am standing in water, holding his phone, trying to rewind a plumbing tutorial at 9pm on a Wednesday. In this economy, I am now a plumber's apprentice with no salary.