The bathroom’s ceiling paint randomly rained down flakes.
She decided to open up the hatch to its false ceiling and check for damp and leakage.
She anticipated solidified mineral deposits hanging down like “icicles” from pipes in the ceiling.
Surprisingly, there were none – the only dangling foreign object was a gourd.
How on earth?
The previous tenant may have hung it there for “Feng Shui”, or geomancy to attract good luck.
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Hmmm. I never heard of gourd hanging as related to feng shui so you have piqued my interest on this and I will have to go look it up.
That does seem like a strange object to hang from the ceiling. Perhaps he was also trying to dry it.
hence the saying, ‘You’re out of your gourd!”
I’d certainly be surprised to find something like this!
A Gourdian Knot to untangle, for sure!