hooray for maintenance!

So today at my regularly scheduled spring maintenance appointment, turns out my water heater was leaking. So, flash forward to this afternoon, an hour before I need to leave to get to campus and hopefully get a parking spot, the maintenance guy STARTS replacing my water heater. At some point, I hear him say 'I'll be right back' and he runs out of my apartment. Why is it that before he left, I never heard the water gushing?!? So I go back to the water heater closet (its in my bathroom) and there is GALLONS OF WATER leaking all over the closet floor! And he is nowhere to be found. About 10 minutes later, as I am trying to figure out if I should get out some towels to clean up all the water (which was brown and gross), he pulls up in his pickup truck. And slowly walks back to my apartment and then takes the old water heater out to the patio and lets it empty pretty much all over my carpet from the bathroom to the front door. It proceeds to empty the rest of the way down through the slats in my patio floor. Good luck to the neighbor who lives below me. I swear there was at least 10 gallons of water that 'somehow' emptied itself from the floor of the cabinet. I checked of course after he left. Apparently, all is fixed...although the water in the kitchen is spouting at me and spraying everywhere. Oh the joys of apartment living! All I can say is 'thank God for spring maintenance checks'. What if they didn't check? I would have NEVER found the leak, that's for sure. So, that's my drama for the day...oh, and I did make it to campus in 15 minutes flat AND got a parking spot within the first 2 minutes of circling the lot. Phew.