Quick Fix

With an important delegation from the Japanese Ministry of Finance
(MoFED) coming to visit the water center today, everyone was hard at
work making sure the compound was in good condition. The head of the
center ordered that the cobblestone in front of the entrance to the main
building, which had shifted and become uneven due to heavy rains over
the years, be torn up and smoothed over. Since there was no time to get
masonry experts out to the center, a mechanic, a driver and one of the
guards set out with a couple shovels and a pick-ax to do the work. They
lifted the heavy stones and smoothed out the gravel below, then set the
stones back down and filled the space between with small pebbles and
gravel, occasionally testing if it was flat by laying a 2x4 across the
ground. After about an hour I came back out to see how everything was
going and they had finished, the cobblestone now level and hopefully
suitable for the VIP from MoFED to step across.