Dear Apt. Bldg Management,
Hello. I hope this letter finds you well. Are you enjoying the extra money coming from the increase in my rent this past year? I’d like to assume you are using that extra money to better the apartment building with say, dryers in the laundry room that actually work. Or clean floors. Or a cockroach-free living environment. Or hot water. But I know that this not the case. For this evening I found yet another sign posted on the front door of the building informing us that there will be no hot water tomorrow from 6 a.m. until “later in the afternoon.” Whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean. Oh, and thanks so much for “apologizing for this inconvenience” but since this seems to happen about once a month, your apology has lost its sincerity.
I don’t have to wake up until 6:15 tomorrow morning. But now, because you need to do some mysterious “maintenance” work that requires the hot water to be turned off half of the day, beginning at 6 a.m., which is rush hour for us 9-6ers, I have to lose sleep. And because my hair is curly and I need it to be wet in order to do anything with it in the morning, I don’t have the luxury of showering tonight instead. Nooooo, I’m going to have to wake up at 5:30 in the damn morning in order to shower before I lose hot water for the rest of the morning because I cannot shower in cold water (I tried it once and it was horrible. I stood in the shower and cried). Do you have any idea how important those 45 minutes of sleep are??? I’M ALWAYS SO DAMNED TIRED!! Those are crucial minutes.
So, I guess what I’m really trying to say is that I hate you. All you have managed to accomplish this year is to take more of my money and, in return, provide me with even crappier service. I deserve some type of refund.
How do you sleep at night?
Forever yours,
Subway Gal
Apt. 2
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October 29th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Those bastards! I’d be so pissed. I need every precious extra minute of sleep in the morning or my entire day is a bust.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Ugh cold showers are AWFUL. Nothing but. However, I never used to eat breakfast, but I feel so much better now that I do. I get up 3 hours before needing to be at work, just to give myself time to wake up and watch the news in my bathrobe, and to have coffee. However, we are usually in bed by 9 or 9:30, and I’m not sure what time you usually make it to bed.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I get to bed way too late, Abe. I try to hang on to the evening as long as possible before having to wake up early and do it all over again
And get this little gem, guys - Boyfriend got in the shower around 8:30 and the water was still hot! DAMN YOU BUILDING MANAGEMENT, DAMN YOU!
October 29th, 2009 at 11:58 am
oh, see…now I’d be tackling someone. that’s total bullshit!
October 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
You have to use the splash technique next time you don’t to wake up early for this military shower. Stand out of the water and splash all the key areas to apply and rinse off the soap.. your jaw will only chatter for like 20min after the shower.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
sue for mental damages!
October 30th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
That’s actually a good idea, Rob, but I don’t think I could do it because I wouldn’t feel like I was completely clean, ya know? I’m strange like that.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
or how about when your 6 pound doggie is shivering b/c there’s no heat? that’s another great perk of the free heat and hot water. you don’t get any.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Awww poor puppy!! In my building, there is no heat at night, so you’re freezing, and then they blast it in the morning, so you wake up sweating. Awesome.