No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Volans - Jul 14, 2008 7:12:15 am PDT #6923 of 10001
move out and draw fire

Hi everybody. Sympathy, compassion, and chainsaws if needed to connie and ND.

We moved this weekend. We didn't mean to, but Thursday night the realtor who's been showing our rental TH rang our doorbell in a flat panic. Seems she'd found new renters, who had signed the lease and paid their deposit on June 27, and were going to be arriving with a truck full of stuff from New York on Monday.

Nobody had bothered to tell us.

I can't decide if our property managers are just that dumb, or just that criminal. They were honestly surprised that we were staying through the end of the month. We said, "But you cashed our rent check for the full month...on July 5."

They might have been trying to get double rent for half the month, who knows.

We explained that we still had over 10,000 lbs of stuff in the TH, and with 48 hours notice we could not move out and meet the terms of the lease, which include a professional cleaning.

No answer. So we put out the call for friends to help us move, and maybe to help us move bodies.

I'll skip the rest of the weekend's hell, but we got totally moved out of the TH, and the PMs decided they couldn't waive the terms of the lease, so we have the TH until the end of the month. I can only hope they are losing major money regarding the new tenants.


Tom Scola - Jul 14, 2008 7:14:49 am PDT #6924 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Holy shit, Raq, that's insane.


SuziQ - Jul 14, 2008 7:15:12 am PDT #6925 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Yikes, Raq! What a firedrill.


DavidS - Jul 14, 2008 7:17:40 am PDT #6926 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Poor Raq. You are so frequently being bedeviled. And you don't deserve it, no!


JZ - Jul 14, 2008 7:24:28 am PDT #6927 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Holy fuck, Raq, that's awful. I can't even imagine how you got through the weekend without bloodshed.


Volans - Jul 14, 2008 7:25:37 am PDT #6928 of 10001
move out and draw fire

It's the Winchester Luck.

I'm glad we are moved, though. It's nice to see Mal running around in a yard.

I'm just having some culture shock: all of our neighbors have stopped by and introduced themselves at various times. And while we were off-loading the truck on Saturday, yet another set of neighbors brought over a cooler with drinks for us! My shit is officially freaked out.


SuziQ - Jul 14, 2008 7:28:09 am PDT #6929 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Freaky, but nice, Raq. I haven't met anyone else that lives in the apartments near us. I've seen people and nodded and such, but no actual conversations.


lisah - Jul 14, 2008 7:29:32 am PDT #6930 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

And while we were off-loading the truck on Saturday, yet another set of neighbors brought over a cooler with drinks for us!

That is a GREAT housewarming present. I'm going to keep that in mind.


sumi - Jul 14, 2008 7:32:09 am PDT #6931 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Raq, what a nightmare! I'm glad you guys are out of that place.


amych - Jul 14, 2008 7:32:12 am PDT #6932 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Scorecard:

Raq's last-minute move-helping friends: WIN

Raq's nice new neighbors: WIN

Raq's new place: WIN

Raq's shitty PMs at the old place: FAIL