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so after much gnashing of the teeth, a number of vitriolic messages on the door and a week-long mexican standoff with the landlord, the metal gate got installed last night. the gate is supposed to protect us from repeated attempts to rob us (3 in 3 months, with a 33.3..% succesful breaking and entering rate, 33.3..% partial success, consisting of SAWING OUT the outside part of the lock in plain daylight rate and 33.3..% failure rate, on account of me, looking very mean, shooing away the man applying the wrench to our bottom lock) is such in its design that it is very easy to reach in through the bars from the outside and to just open the damn thing.
our landlord is so cheap and incompetent. his main strategies of interactions consist of telling us that he is going to kill himself and asking us to pay for various stuff cuz he is deeply in debt. yet the hippies next door get to live rent-free because he likes them and does not want to charge them rent. i was writing an email to my friend yesterday and pondering what might happen if our landlord was PoTUS:
"Hey, Saddam, if you don't abscond, I'm gonna kill myself."
"America, you guys, we don't need all those police and helicopters. I, with my screwdriver and plunger, will single-handedly protect you from the terrorists. they are a couple of 16-year olds on drugs, anyway, they don't want no real trouble."
"Uh, Saddam, the national debt is like really big now. We gotta give all this money to Turkey. Since we wouldn't be going to this war if it weren't for you, do you mind just paying for the war yourself?"
"Gol-lum."
our landlord is so cheap and incompetent. his main strategies of interactions consist of telling us that he is going to kill himself and asking us to pay for various stuff cuz he is deeply in debt. yet the hippies next door get to live rent-free because he likes them and does not want to charge them rent. i was writing an email to my friend yesterday and pondering what might happen if our landlord was PoTUS:
"Hey, Saddam, if you don't abscond, I'm gonna kill myself."
"America, you guys, we don't need all those police and helicopters. I, with my screwdriver and plunger, will single-handedly protect you from the terrorists. they are a couple of 16-year olds on drugs, anyway, they don't want no real trouble."
"Uh, Saddam, the national debt is like really big now. We gotta give all this money to Turkey. Since we wouldn't be going to this war if it weren't for you, do you mind just paying for the war yourself?"
"Gol-lum."
