Dripping in the Night
There are people in the next room. They have been here for over three weeks. I do not want to be a nuisance and make a noise and disturb what must be their idyllic spot. I heard a dripping in the night. The fridge makes a dripping sound when switched on - I had switched the fridge off for the night.
I found that the tap in the wash basin was dripping - turned off properly but dripping. But that was not the noise that I heard.
The kitchen sink tap is not dripping. The sound is from outside. I did not think of rain - my first thought was of water dripping from the air conditioning, even though I had not used the air conditioning. I quietly opened the door. The dripping noise came from near the air conditioner - but it was rain, dripping onto a flat surface at the junction of a waste pipe.
An extract from my book about Greece, "Kalo Taxidi".
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