The stupidity and insanity of the day started early… like, right at the beginning.  My mom is coming to visit for the weekend, so I called a cleaning service to clean my apartment since my mom is allergic to just about everything, and I wanted the place in a condition where she’d be able to stay for a few days without any issues.  You know, a state in which she wouldn’t think I was living in squalor.  I scheduled the cleaning service to come in at 8am.  At 8:15am, the phone rings.

Cleaning service: The cleaning crew is there, but they can’t get past the callbox, can you let them in?
Me: Uhh… I don’t have a callbox, I think they’re at the wrong building.
Cleaning service: Hang on. 
[Puts me on hold]
Cleaning service: Okay, someone let them in, they’re coming down to your apartment.
Me: I seriously think they’re at the wrong building.  I don’t have a callbox, and I’m standing in front of my apartment, looking down at the street, and there’s no one coming down the path. 
Cleaning service: You’re at [address]?
Me: Yes, but I don’t have a callbox, I can see straight out to the street, and there’s no one here. 
Cleaning service: Okay, well, someone let them in and if they’re not there in 10 minutes, call us back. 
He hangs up on me.  10 minutes passes… and I call them back.

Me: The cleaning crew is at the wrong building.  They were talking about a callbox, which I don’t have, and the last guy I talked to said they were here 10 minutes ago.  I’m sitting in my apartment, there’s no one here, and no one’s even walking down the short path from the street to my place.
Cleaning service: Hang on, we’ll call them… [puts me on hold] Okay, so someone let them in, they’re already set up and cleaning.
Me: I’m sorry, what?  How could they be cleaning already?  They haven’t even gotten to my apartment!
Cleaning service: You mean they’re not there?
Me: Yes, I’ve been saying that for the past 10 minutes!  [Here’s where I start wondering not only how bright the people of the service are, but also what idiot allowed an unexpected cleaning crew into their apartment.]
Cleaning service: Okay, we’ll call them again.

As it turns out, they did go to the wrong building; the woman told me that they went to the building behind me.  Then the day started going seriously downhill from there, but it’s not amusing like this episode was.  Tomorrow, Mom arrives.