Return of the Landlord (451 hits)
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Submitted by Mr. Awesome <steveisgreat.at.rock.com> (View user info) at 2004-09-20 15:56:37 EDT
As some of you may know, I have had a problem with my landlord for quite some time (see previous post). I suspect him of stealing, he dosen't really do anything useful, and he looks like a bum. Well, last week he infuriated me even more.
My house lies in such a wy that it is easier to enter through the back door (which the landlord has put a new lock on and has not given me a key to, leaving me prey to his whims) and the first thing I see is my room. Last Friday, I come home only to see that my bedroom door is wide open, and as I enter I see that the stuff that was in front of my window was pushed to the side. My father climbed through my window and left the door open when my room was dirty, to let me knoe that he knew. But my room had been cleaned alst night and he knew that, so who was it?
I called my dad, just to be sure. "It was the landlord," he said gruffly. I didn't ask how he knew. After I hung up, I sat for a few minutes and stewed. Then, I picked up the phone and called the local police station. I told them what happened, and said a cruiser would be sent over. Thee landlord was parked outside. Our roommate (I told him I had called the cops) was talking to him. The landlord quickly drove off in his shitty van. Pussy.
The cops came, but they said there wasn't anything they could do. I kinda knew that, but it was better that I called the cops, and not take it like a bitch. At least he knew that I wasn't scared because he was the big, bad landlord.
It occured to me to ask how my dad knew who it was. I called him. "He showed up and made Patricia (my uncle's girlfriend)let him in." he informed me. That means that he made it look like he climbed in to piss me off? I still don't know. He asked why I needed to know. When I told my dad about the incident, he was suprisingly laidback about the whole thing. It dawned on me that although he didn't want to start trouble, he hated the landlord as much as every other tenant who had lived there with us (about 4 over the years) and he didn't plan to stop me if I started trouble with the landlord now that we are going to move before the year is through.
That night, Patricia asked me if I really called the cops oh him. I answered in the affirmitave. "Good," she said, "he was talking shit the whole time he was here."
Later, as I brought things to Patricia's car to leave for the weekend, the landlord gets out of his van that had been parked in the parking olt across the street, runs up to me, and yells "You left the front door open! You're gonna let bugs in! Go close it!"
If he has spoken with a modicum of respect for a person who is at least a foot taller than him, I would have gone and shut it. However, he was a dick, so all I said was "I don't care. I don't care." He stared with bug eyes at me as Patricia drove off, laughing. I waved bye. Now he knows beyond beyond a shadow of a doubt that I won't put up with his bullshit.
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Submitted by HelloMello (user info) at 2004-09-25 21:24:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Ha ha
Submitted by xenon (user info) at 2004-09-20 16:43:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Man, you must live in a SERIOUS rat-hole. Get out!
Submitted by Spider-Man (user info) at 2004-09-20 16:25:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2004-09-20 16:05:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Do you live in HUD?
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-09-20 16:03:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
You missed the perfect opportunity for the line, "If you don't shut your mouth, I'll shut it for you."