Charlene Ada Bugg

A Boy Plumber

I was stationed at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey 1983 -1985, and lived in Adana, Turkey, and in 1984, this was my second apartment. It was on the 6th floor and my 4 yr old daughter lived with me. In order to have hot water, I had to hire a plumber because there was no hot water in any of these apartments in the six story building. A friend of mine, Turgut, a Turkish man, in his late twenties, who I had taught some English, translated for me. Turgut said if I wanted hot water, I had to pay for the new hot water pipes and all the hot water for everyone in the apartment building. Since it was so cheap, I agreed to it, even though I was kind of leery of how much I might be charged but they assured me it was very minimal and my first bill wouldn't be there for three or four months.