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Posted on February 6th, 2009

When it would rain during the years of the original downtown bakery our
landlord, Ron would arrive with plastic drop clothes and white buckets.
He would duck tape and nail one end of the plastic drop cloth to the end
of the center leaking beam in the retail section of the bakery and
gently drape it towards the other end. At the other end he would nail
two buckets to catch the water that ingeniously meandered down from the
one end of the drop into the buckets. It worked like a charm. The only
problem was that it was incredibly ugly. The bakery that I had so
painstakingly put together with the sweat of my whole family and many of
my friends was scared by this massive blue drop cloth, not to mention
the buckets. Ron would smile and pick up his tools and leave satisfied
with his ingenuity again. I begged Ron to fix the leak. This could not
be done. He had put concrete on the roof in case he wanted to make it
into a patio someday, there was no fixing it. Planning for someday was a
favorite pastime of Ron's. It was never enough to take care of what he
had. Ron always had big future plans. These plans kept what he already
had from being the best it could be. Ron Lau has made us better
landlords. If a tenant calls with a leak we fix it immediately. We
simply call a roofer.