Did they or didn't they?

2 weeks on since the manhole incident, I would have thought that the manhole grate would have somehow been fixed, as since the last time I saw it, someone almost went into the hole.

Well...the good news is that I think it appeared to have been "fixed". The bad news is that from what I saw, they have only used a narrow piece of plank to cover the particular bits of the manhole!

Actually, I am not sure if it is fixed at all. Perhaps, on the hindsight, it has always been thar way, and it just happened that on that particular day, an unfortunate women had to unwittingly land herself there and got herself into a pickle.

Who knows!