Bitching pays off

[mbarrick]

Letter from the landlord

So after the incident with my upstairs neighbour I wrote a letter to the landlord. Things have been back to normal in terms of noise after I yelled at him and today I got this letter from the landlord. I love this building.

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the images invoked...

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

many congratualtions on your success- i lived under three frat boys and their successive rounds of girlfriends for over a year and you have my deepest understanding and sympathy.

however...

pondering the image of an irate michael pounding on someone's apartment door yelling at them to turn down the music (considering i can't image you angry in the first place) i can't help but 1.) savor the delicious irony of it all 2.) imageine a cane-wielding michael hollering "keep it down in there sonny!"

it could be worse however. my old next-door neighbors used to have sunday bible meetings where they would sing and play guitar. it's a difficult thing to wake up to after a late night of drinking at the club, but i could never say anything because of deep guilt and the fear that if i complain that may become my punishment in purgatory...

~elisabeth

Re: the images invoked...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I am definitely well on the way to the cane-weilding fogey. My apartment is my sanctuary.

But as to picturing me angry... heh. I don't often get angry but when I do, run and hide. I can think of 7 incidents of times I have been really angry in the last 15 years. Three of those times were tearing strips out of noisy neighbours; one was directed at a former landlord for not doing something about the junk another tennant was piling in the driveway (would you believe I actually picked the man up by his shoulders and put him down facing the junk?!); another was toward a former employer for trying to stiff me for $11,000; one was the day my ex-wife said she was leaving (I threw my coffee mug at the door behind her - in retrospect I should have thrown it at her - and proceeded to smash all the wedding pictures); and one was when a room-mate skipped on the rent (in that case I stomped a wooden chair into kindling).

So there it is. I'm averaging about one justified spaz every two years.

Re: the images invoked...

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

whoo! i am in awe of your righteous anger (suddenly has that quotation from 'Pulp Fiction' running through her head...). i don't really get angry, although there have been times that a little yelling and smashing could have been a very useful thing. :}

however, being of the cane-shaking sort myself (yes, i do have a cane- and actually needed it for walking for a time) there is quite a bit to recommend it: anyone who calls you geezer 'accidentally' gets tripped. ;}

~elisabeth, the meek

(and michael can attest to this since he met me cowering in the corner of a club last year... lol!)