Fix or Repair

I never thought about a difference between repairing something that's broken or merely fixing it. But I think a difference exists and I noticed it in Amman.

 There was, of course, the faucet fixing previously reported. (See Living Conditions.)

Maybe that was just that particular hotel and that particular room.  

But I am now in a new place (4th one in Amman) and we have a similar arrangement to stop the leak in the kitchen faucet.  It doesn't.

At school the door to the classroom was impossible to open without jiggling the handle and banging/shoving the door.  

First idea, tape the latch so it wouldn't engage with the plate.  That didn't work. Then go back to jiggling/banging/shoving. Then jam a wad of paper into the latch hole so it wouldn't engage.  That worked.  The door knob mechanism, which was the problem, was not replaced.

  Here's a solution to a water drippage problem.

  


The hotel was missing its portico for all of our  two month visit.

And here it sits, off to the side of  the building - waiting.

 
This bit of fixing occurred right next to our hotel.  




 There was slight hole in the driveway into the parking lot (AKA party central) next door.

After the hole was fixed, it was marked off by bricks and the cement bag

and then the "gate" was closed and flagged by something or other.

Here's the big picture.

And now it's fixed!

Sidewalk's next.