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apartment weirdnesses
Aug. 2nd, 2004 07:40 amWell the couch that I saw being carried at 1 am Sunday morning apparently made it as far as the bit of lawn in front of the building where there was a piece of paper saying 'Free' on it. I think it probably came from an upstairs apt, but not the one directly over me, and that they were carrying it out then to try to avoid people knowing where it came from.
The staircase in daylight has not only a shattered bottom step, but several of the lower steps are split right in the middle. Definitely not a good idea to walk on those, hence the tape blocking top and bottom.
The landlady (who lives out in Contra Costa County) knocks on my door last night to ask about the stove by the dumpsters. She wanted to know if it was the one that had been in my apartment... um no, my stove was replaced back in April and I hadn't seen it since. The guy who installed the new one took the old one away with him. Besides that, my old one was that size, but a different color.
She starts asking other people about and someone says they think it came from the apartment above me.
I'm tempted to develop a fantasy that the furniture moving I'd been hearing from up there was actually her dragging the stove around. That the thumps were because she was trying to carry it and sometimes dropped it. Then on Saturday she took the stove out for some reason, perhaps it needed airing out, and accidentally dropped it down the stairs. Or perhaps she was angry with it for not fitting properly into her living room or bedroom decor and for only working when actually attached to a gas line and threw it down the stairs in a fit of pique.
These stories are bolstered by a crack in the top of the stove. However they are completely ruled out, because that stove has been out there for a couple of weeks. Just before it arrived out there, there was a different stove sitting at the base of the staircase for several days. This one was VERY different, it was a model with a second oven up above.
Hmm, I'm thinking there are variations to this story that could fit the observed facts. The stairs in question are cement and brick tile, I think it would probably take either an earthquake or something heavy and firm with the weight well concentrated to cause this sort of damage.
Maybe the previous thunks were indeed from sloppily dropping barbells that she was using to prepare for carrying that stove upstairs. But then she only got it part way up and dropped it and that broke the stairs.
This doesn't explain the double oven and has nothing to do with that uproar Thursday night. By the way, the something that was nailed over the holes in the door was the lid of a pizza box. I also saw her outside barbecuing earlier in the week. It *might* be that she doesn't have a working stove up there.
Anyone else have a fun theory about what's going on up there?
Perhaps she's been managing to quietly carry it up every night and push it around the apartment and then take it back down before morning. Then Saturday because her boyfriend wasn't around after Thursday's fiasco, she tried to do it by herself and dropped it on the stairs?
By the way, next time I went outside, the stove had disappeared. I assumed the landlady took it away. Nope, I opened the dumpster to get rid of some trash, and there it was filling nearly half of it. At a house in San Jose absolutely no way would the garbage company take a stove that was put with the regular trash. I guess we'll see how different the Santa Clara garbage co is about stoves, or not.
The staircase in daylight has not only a shattered bottom step, but several of the lower steps are split right in the middle. Definitely not a good idea to walk on those, hence the tape blocking top and bottom.
The landlady (who lives out in Contra Costa County) knocks on my door last night to ask about the stove by the dumpsters. She wanted to know if it was the one that had been in my apartment... um no, my stove was replaced back in April and I hadn't seen it since. The guy who installed the new one took the old one away with him. Besides that, my old one was that size, but a different color.
She starts asking other people about and someone says they think it came from the apartment above me.
I'm tempted to develop a fantasy that the furniture moving I'd been hearing from up there was actually her dragging the stove around. That the thumps were because she was trying to carry it and sometimes dropped it. Then on Saturday she took the stove out for some reason, perhaps it needed airing out, and accidentally dropped it down the stairs. Or perhaps she was angry with it for not fitting properly into her living room or bedroom decor and for only working when actually attached to a gas line and threw it down the stairs in a fit of pique.
These stories are bolstered by a crack in the top of the stove. However they are completely ruled out, because that stove has been out there for a couple of weeks. Just before it arrived out there, there was a different stove sitting at the base of the staircase for several days. This one was VERY different, it was a model with a second oven up above.
Hmm, I'm thinking there are variations to this story that could fit the observed facts. The stairs in question are cement and brick tile, I think it would probably take either an earthquake or something heavy and firm with the weight well concentrated to cause this sort of damage.
Maybe the previous thunks were indeed from sloppily dropping barbells that she was using to prepare for carrying that stove upstairs. But then she only got it part way up and dropped it and that broke the stairs.
This doesn't explain the double oven and has nothing to do with that uproar Thursday night. By the way, the something that was nailed over the holes in the door was the lid of a pizza box. I also saw her outside barbecuing earlier in the week. It *might* be that she doesn't have a working stove up there.
Anyone else have a fun theory about what's going on up there?
Perhaps she's been managing to quietly carry it up every night and push it around the apartment and then take it back down before morning. Then Saturday because her boyfriend wasn't around after Thursday's fiasco, she tried to do it by herself and dropped it on the stairs?
By the way, next time I went outside, the stove had disappeared. I assumed the landlady took it away. Nope, I opened the dumpster to get rid of some trash, and there it was filling nearly half of it. At a house in San Jose absolutely no way would the garbage company take a stove that was put with the regular trash. I guess we'll see how different the Santa Clara garbage co is about stoves, or not.
