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The bathroom has no electrical plugs.

The drains are constantly clogged.

We have to water these hideous looking plants in the front part of our yard. If they die our landlord calls us and yells at us. They've died 3x!

90% of our electrical sockets are two prongs. Almost everything that isn't a lamp is 3 prongs! We need to buy 3 prong adapters in order to use them!

The rugs are dirtier than a priest!

All the windows are sliding windows making for it to be impossible to put a regular air conditioner in the windows!

The walls are thinly insulated. It's shivering cold in the winter and sweaty hot in the summer.

We have no closets for things like vacuums, brooms, towels, etc.

The ceiling in the living room leaks if it rains too hard.

The kitchen is tiny like a closet that we don't have for vacuums, brooms, towels, etc...

Our neighbors on one side party like college kids. On the other side the father and son smoke weed and scream at each other at the top of their lungs "DID YOU TAKE ALL MY WEED?!?!?!"

What sucks about the place you live in?

gso

Labels: Home, List, Pissed Off

This Sunday night was a tad different than most of my Sunday Nights. First off, Emily had a dinner date with some of her friends downtown. Usually on Sundays Emily & I sit around the fireplace roasting marshmallows & telling each other secrets. Emily was out of the house at 5:30 pm and that's when the fun began!

After playing video games for an hour I decided to be productive and finally clean the bathroom! First though I needed to feed Herbie. So I grabbed Herbie's bowls and saw that they were dirtier than some of the language I use on my blog and decided to clean them. I finished cleaning his bowls and proceeded to turn off the water when I hear "SNAP" not "Oh Snap!" like the brotha's like to use but more in the sense of "uh oh something just broke". I mess with the faucet and the damn thing won't turn off and it's shooting water in the air and running very fast into the sick. I'm really lucky the drain wasn't clogged or otherwise I would've been bucketing water from the sink to outside. My apartment is so old and crappy that there were no turn off switches underneath the sink in the kitchen. So like the woman I am I call my girlfriend "ring, ring, ring" ok now answer. "Hey Em, the faucet is broken and won't turn off. I'm just wondering if you know how to fix it?" I must be the biggest waste of a man since Clay Aiken. I decide to call the landlord's emergency contact phone number. I get a hold of them and tell them the situation. She says she will send a handyman out my way. The handyman gets here at 7:30 pm to save my life from certain drowning and gives us a new faucet.

I think the moral of the story for me is to NOT use the faucet when I'm home alone, nor try being productive because it will just get me into trouble. Either that or maybe I should go take one of those handyman courses at like a community college. If it weren't for my witty banter and adult developed motor skills people might just think I'm slow!?!?

gso

Labels: Dangerous, Home, Me