Apro nuovamente il sito delle meraviglie (GUMTREE.com) e stavolta imposto la scelta su Coventry...rimango anche in questo caso delusa dal numero scarso di proposte, ma una attira subito la mia attenzione...sarà stato il prezzo: appena £380 tutto incluso o il fatto che tutto sommato sembri una zona di Coventry abbastanza centrale...chissà, non mi resta che inviare una mail con i miei dati e la richiesta di un appuntamento...
Passano appena 10 min. e ricevo sul cellulare un sms...è il landlord (proprietario) dell'appartamento che mi dà subito disponibilità per un appuntamento il giorno stesso alle 19.30...
E' perfetto, penso, e non ci penso due volte ad accettare...
Da lì in poi inizia l'incubo....Inizia ad assalirmi una strana paura...avrò fatto bene a fissare questo appuntamento direttamente con il proprietario? Non c'è agenzia perciò potrebbe essere una truffa....
...Non ho mai parlato al telefono con questa persona, chi mi dice che sia veramente il proprietario?....Ma siamo sicuri che sia un appartamento in affitto e non una trappola per ricattare le persone?...Tutto sommato nessuno mi conosce qui, sono da sola, nessuno vieta a questa persona di attirarmi con una scusa nel suo appartamento ed abusare di me o addirittura uccidermi, giusto?????.....
Controllo sul sito e osservo con molta più attenzione della volta precedente e, con mia somma sorpresa, mi rendo conto che non ci sono foto dell'appartamento!!!!!!....
Mamma mia, allora le mie supposizioni sono vere!!!!
La paura mi assale...sono davvero nel panico...allora mi faccio violenza, e vado dal mio collega italiano...è l'unico che mi capisce (perchè parla nella mia lingua) e potrebbe accompagnarmi...non voglio un passaggio in macchina...non se ne parla assolutamente, voglio solo una persona di sesso maschile che aspetti fuori per 10 min. giusto per far capire al malintenzionato che non può nè stuprarmi nè uccidermi....
Mamma mia, allora le mie supposizioni sono vere!!!!
La paura mi assale...sono davvero nel panico...allora mi faccio violenza, e vado dal mio collega italiano...è l'unico che mi capisce (perchè parla nella mia lingua) e potrebbe accompagnarmi...non voglio un passaggio in macchina...non se ne parla assolutamente, voglio solo una persona di sesso maschile che aspetti fuori per 10 min. giusto per far capire al malintenzionato che non può nè stuprarmi nè uccidermi....
Vado da lui, gli spiego tutte le mie paranoie...le mie paure e alla fine gli chiedo se può ad un'ora convenuta farsi trovare fuori, solo per sicurezza!!!
Per tutta risposta....mi dice che alle 19.00 deve andare dal suo futuro proprietario per firmare il contratto di locazione di una stanza, perciò alle 19.30 non sarà sicuramente disponibile per aiutare me.....Rimango completamente basita ed a bocca aperta....non ho parole...per lui possono tranquillamente strangolarmi e mollarmi in un canale....
Bene, mi faccio forza e mi dico...che ce la devo fare, che sono tutte paranoie e che meglio da soli che mal accompagnati...dai colleghi italiani!!!!!
Circa un'ora e mezza prima dell'appuntamento mi preparo e, dopo la mia consueta chiacchierata con le persone alla reception dell'albergo che mi stampano la cartina di Coventry, mi dicono quale strada prendere, quale bus e che direzione imboccare per non sbagliare, parto per la mia avventura.
Ho avvisato mio padre e Luca di chiamarmi ad un'ora precisa per essere impegnata a parlare con qualcuno e per far finta che ci sia qualcuno che mi aspetta fuori...e inizio ad andare....
...Mi accorgo sin da subito che la casa è collocata molto ma molto lontano dal centro, cammino per quasi mezz'ora al freddo e in una zona deserta e poco illuminata....tutte le mie paure stanno prendendo forma e sono lì che mi dico...cosa stai facendo corri via corri via, ma proseguo e alla fine arrivo ad un compromesso con me stessa....decido di arrivare fino all'appartamento e di decidere, osservando l'esterno dell'abitazione, se è il caso di aspettare o scappare via....imbocco la via...anche questa completamente deserta e illuminata pochissimo....
Sarà il risparmio energetico...ma un paio di luci in più non guasterebbero....inizio a contare i civici...le case sono molto carine, diciamo che la strada è in una zona residenziale...il mio umore migliora un pò...arrivo in prossimità del numero dell'appartamento, ma lo supero senza capire come...torno indietro e mi accorgo che tra la schiera delle perfette casette inglesi, ad un certo punto c'è un buco...nel buco...incassato tra le costruzioni c'è un palazzo orribile, fatiscente ed orrendamente colorato di giallo...
Bene, la decisione è presa: corri più in fretta che puoi e torna in albergo, ma nel momento in cui sto per imboccare nuovamente la strada del ritorno e chiamare le persone in Italia che ho allertato...la porta del palazzo si apre...ed escono due uomini...uno sicuramente il Landlord e l'altro, molto probabilmente, una persona che, come me, è lì per vedere l'appartamento...sono fregata....ormai sono qui...
Si avvicinano, il proprietario si presenta e mi indica la porta per poter entrare....
Si avvicinano, il proprietario si presenta e mi indica la porta per poter entrare....
Ricordo molto poco della stanza che mi si è presentata...ricordo che non c'erano finestre...che la cucina era attaccata al letto e che il bagno era la cabina doccia: tutto il bagno fungeva da doccia....non posso descrivere oltre...era davvero orribile!!!!!! Il prezzo dell'affitto era stato ritoccato a £250, ma ugualmente non era il caso di rimanere lì oltre...mi dirigo verso la porta di quella "scatola" con la promessa di richiamare in un paio di giorni se interessata....nel mentre iniziano ad arrivare le telefonate all'ora convenuta...rincuoro tutti, descrivo la delusione e l'orribile posto che ho appena visto e mesta torno in albergo.....
Mai più case senza agenzia e definitivamente NO Coventry!!!!!
FIRST APARTMENT
I am very worried for my apartment, time is short (the company pays me only two weeks at the hotel) and appointments are at the end of the week ... I do not feel right to lose 5 days without seeing anything ... . then I pluck up courage and tell me do a couple of apartments in Coventry will not make me no harm, indeed, I can certainly start to get an idea of how the English houses are, and how are the rents ....
I open again the wonderland site (GUMTREE.com) and this time it imposed the choice of Coventry ... I stay here too disappointed by the limited number of proposals, but immediately attracts my attention ... it was the price: just £ 380 all inclusive, or the fact that basically looks like a fairly central area of Coventry ... who knows, I just have to send an email with my details and request an appointment ...
They spend only 10 min. and I receive a text message on mobile phone ... is the Landlord (owner) who gives me the apartment available immediately for an appointment the same day at 19.30 ...
It 's perfect, I think, and not think twice to accept ...
From then on, the nightmare begins .... He began to assail a strange fear ... May I have done well to secure this appointment directly with the owner? There is no agency so it might be a scam ....
I never talked on the phone with the guy, who tells me that is really the owner? .... Are we sure that it is a rented apartment and not a trap to blackmail people? ... None I know here I am alone, no one forbids that person with an excuse to draw me into his apartment and abuse me or even kill me, right??? .....
Control over the site and look much more carefully than last time and, to my great surprise, I realize that there are no pictures of!! ....
My mom, then my assumptions are true!
The fear comes over me ... I'm really panicking ... then I go by my Italian colleague ... is the only one who understands me (because he speaks my language) and could take me ... I do not want a ride ... is not spoken at all, I just want a male person to wait outside for 10 min. just to understand that the attacker can not kill me or rape me or ....
I go to him, I explain my paranoia ... all my fears and finally ask him if he agreed to an hour can be found out, only to safety!
In response .... He said that at 19.00 to go from his future Landlord to sign the lease of a room, so at 19.30 certainly will not be available to help me ..... I remain completely open-mouthed .... I have no words for him ...
Well, I do strength and I say ... that I must do, they are all paranoid and that better alone than badly accompanied by Italian colleagues ...!!
About an hour and half before the appointment I prepare myself, after my usual chat with people at the reception that print the map of Coventry, tell me which way to go, which bus and which direction to take to avoid mistakes , I leave for my adventure.
I have contacted my father and Luca to call at specific times to be busy talking with someone and pretend that there is someone waiting for me outside ... and I begin to go ....
Right now ... I realize that the house is located very, very far from downtown, walk for half an hour in the cold and into a dimly lit and deserted area .... all my fears are taking shape and I'm there and telling by myself: what are you doing? ... run away run away, but go ahead and eventually arrive at a compromise with myself .... I decide to come to the apartment and decide, by looking at the exterior of the dwelling, if is the case of waiting or running away .... well ... the street is completely deserted and not well illuminated ....
Will be saving energy ... but a couple of more lights not spoil .... I begin to count the civic ... the houses are very nice, the road is in a residential area ... my mood improves a little bit ... I got close to the apartment number, but not understanding how I overcome it ... I came back and I realize that among the ranks of the perfect English houses, to a certain point there is a hole in the ... gap between the buildings ... built a palace there is horrible colored yellow ...
Well, the decision is made: to run as fast as you can and return to the hotel, but when I am going to then take the road back and call people in Italy ... I alerted the palace gate opens: two men ... one definitely the Landlord and the other, most likely, a person who, like me, is there to see the apartment ... I'm here now ....
Approach, the owner shows up and shows me the door to enter ....
I remember a very small room ... remember that there were no windows ... the kitchen was attached to the bed and the bathroom was the shower: the entire bathroom was used as a toilet .... no, I cannot describe well ... it was horrible!! The price was adjusted to £250, but equally there was no need to stay there ... I head over to the door of that "box" and promised to call in a couple of days if interested ... . in the meanwhile the phone calls started to arrive at the agreed time ... everyone cheered, describe the disappointment and the horrible place I have just seen and sadly back to the hotel .....
No more homes without agency and NO COVENTRY definitely!!
FIRST APARTMENT
I am very worried for my apartment, time is short (the company pays me only two weeks at the hotel) and appointments are at the end of the week ... I do not feel right to lose 5 days without seeing anything ... . then I pluck up courage and tell me do a couple of apartments in Coventry will not make me no harm, indeed, I can certainly start to get an idea of how the English houses are, and how are the rents ....
I open again the wonderland site (GUMTREE.com) and this time it imposed the choice of Coventry ... I stay here too disappointed by the limited number of proposals, but immediately attracts my attention ... it was the price: just £ 380 all inclusive, or the fact that basically looks like a fairly central area of Coventry ... who knows, I just have to send an email with my details and request an appointment ...
They spend only 10 min. and I receive a text message on mobile phone ... is the Landlord (owner) who gives me the apartment available immediately for an appointment the same day at 19.30 ...
It 's perfect, I think, and not think twice to accept ...
From then on, the nightmare begins .... He began to assail a strange fear ... May I have done well to secure this appointment directly with the owner? There is no agency so it might be a scam ....
I never talked on the phone with the guy, who tells me that is really the owner? .... Are we sure that it is a rented apartment and not a trap to blackmail people? ... None I know here I am alone, no one forbids that person with an excuse to draw me into his apartment and abuse me or even kill me, right??? .....
Control over the site and look much more carefully than last time and, to my great surprise, I realize that there are no pictures of!! ....
My mom, then my assumptions are true!
The fear comes over me ... I'm really panicking ... then I go by my Italian colleague ... is the only one who understands me (because he speaks my language) and could take me ... I do not want a ride ... is not spoken at all, I just want a male person to wait outside for 10 min. just to understand that the attacker can not kill me or rape me or ....
I go to him, I explain my paranoia ... all my fears and finally ask him if he agreed to an hour can be found out, only to safety!
In response .... He said that at 19.00 to go from his future Landlord to sign the lease of a room, so at 19.30 certainly will not be available to help me ..... I remain completely open-mouthed .... I have no words for him ...
Well, I do strength and I say ... that I must do, they are all paranoid and that better alone than badly accompanied by Italian colleagues ...!!
About an hour and half before the appointment I prepare myself, after my usual chat with people at the reception that print the map of Coventry, tell me which way to go, which bus and which direction to take to avoid mistakes , I leave for my adventure.
I have contacted my father and Luca to call at specific times to be busy talking with someone and pretend that there is someone waiting for me outside ... and I begin to go ....
Right now ... I realize that the house is located very, very far from downtown, walk for half an hour in the cold and into a dimly lit and deserted area .... all my fears are taking shape and I'm there and telling by myself: what are you doing? ... run away run away, but go ahead and eventually arrive at a compromise with myself .... I decide to come to the apartment and decide, by looking at the exterior of the dwelling, if is the case of waiting or running away .... well ... the street is completely deserted and not well illuminated ....
Will be saving energy ... but a couple of more lights not spoil .... I begin to count the civic ... the houses are very nice, the road is in a residential area ... my mood improves a little bit ... I got close to the apartment number, but not understanding how I overcome it ... I came back and I realize that among the ranks of the perfect English houses, to a certain point there is a hole in the ... gap between the buildings ... built a palace there is horrible colored yellow ...
Well, the decision is made: to run as fast as you can and return to the hotel, but when I am going to then take the road back and call people in Italy ... I alerted the palace gate opens: two men ... one definitely the Landlord and the other, most likely, a person who, like me, is there to see the apartment ... I'm here now ....
Approach, the owner shows up and shows me the door to enter ....
I remember a very small room ... remember that there were no windows ... the kitchen was attached to the bed and the bathroom was the shower: the entire bathroom was used as a toilet .... no, I cannot describe well ... it was horrible!! The price was adjusted to £250, but equally there was no need to stay there ... I head over to the door of that "box" and promised to call in a couple of days if interested ... . in the meanwhile the phone calls started to arrive at the agreed time ... everyone cheered, describe the disappointment and the horrible place I have just seen and sadly back to the hotel .....
No more homes without agency and NO COVENTRY definitely!!
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