.jpg "This was taken to show our property manager, so it's low quality and sideways via phone photography. Just, tilt your head to the left or your device to the right. Or, if you like, do neither and pretend my entire home is sideways.")
<\/div>Come to find out that our property company just had every single maintenance man quit at the same time. Don’t tell anyone but I’m a bit relieved to find this out. Our head maintenance guy was just..so very, very sexist. Just, one of those brands of people that you’re not even sure how they’re still around. Like, are they bussed in from 1910? What are you even doing here, man?<\/span> This means we have to wait for an external company to come to check it out, which is fine, I guess. The ceiling sags more and more, but like, we did what we could in reporting the issue, I don’t own the place, so, whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n Well, by the time they show up I am in the full swing of a case of the flu. My phone has been updating unsuccessfully for two days so I don’t get the call they are on their way. And I feel like crap.<\/p>\n Fine, at least it’ll get fixed.<\/p>\n They go upstairs to over top of where the damage is and do the same song and dance we did when we first noticed the issue; poke the floor. Is it wet? No? Huh, weird.<\/p>\n They determine they need to cut a hole in the ceiling to find the problem, which I expected, but like…Oh man, goody! All I wanted for Christmas was a view of support beams! Yay!<\/p>\n Whatever, let’s do this. We move our shelves and books out of the way to make room, and they get to work.<\/p>\n They slice out this sizable gash with a box cutter, which immediately begins spewing water all over the floor. The insulation is wet, the floor is wet, the table beneath it is wet, it’s a mess. I am half-asleep in my recliner at this point, but I am brought fully to the realm of the living by both the maintenance man and my husband saying “What…the fuck?”. Now, Elliot curses, but he is a fully born-and-raised west Texas boy, so he doesn’t typically or really ever do so in front of company.<\/p>\n This brings me to my favorite thing about this. No matter how clever or realistic I’m being in my little Sims build, I will never beat reality. No matter how much human nature I think up, no matter how many little quirks I give the place, there is no accounting for full human stupidity.<\/p>\n What was in my ceiling? Fully sealed up there behind a full previous repair and fresh plaster?<\/p>\n A dog bowl. A dog bowl full of water.<\/p>\n Evidently, our air conditioner has been leaking for years, and rather than repair it, some maintenance man of old decided to seal in a dog bowl to catch the leak.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Happy holidays, don’t forget to drip your faucets and check your ceilings for dog bowls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week’s post will be a little on the shorter side, I’m recovering from the flu and Christmas is in just a couple of days. The observant of you will notice that means I’m writing this the same day it goes up, to which I say; snitches get stitches. Jokes aside, I don’t usually write […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[618,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epilogue","category-personal","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55056"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55067,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55056\/revisions\/55067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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