Edward Piercy

You Mean, We're Supposed to Pay Rent?

Sunday, 27. September 2009, 20:13:00

My mom happened to mention that our property
manager told her the other day that three tenants
-- one at our apartment building and two in another
one -- were going to be evicted because they weren't
paying their rent.

"You mean, we don't have to pay the rent?!" I said
to her. "Wow. Think of all the extra money I'll have!"

Which reminded me of an old episode of Mystery
Science Theater 3000 in which a movie had this old
skinny farmer crossing this field of dead cows and
they had him supposedly say, "You mean, we're
supposed to FEED the cattle?"

ROTF.

Worldwide Day of PlaySasha's 1st Anniversary

Comments

gdare # 27. September 2009, 21:18

I really do hope you will not be evicted

edwardpiercy # 27. September 2009, 21:40

Well I do have a back-up plan: me and Star are going to pack our swag and move to Australia. As soon as Sasha will go outdoors, of course, which she still will not do.

gdare # 27. September 2009, 21:47

Maybe she will change her mind when she hears about that Australia trip. You should talk to her....

Aqualion # 27. September 2009, 21:58

They have real strange animals down under. Like dingos. Perhaps if you dress Sasha up in a cork hat and snake skin boots, she'll be acknowledged as a real aussie. Of course, she'd have to eat vegemite sandwiches only and drink beer, and even worse, so would you.

Stardancer # 27. September 2009, 22:01

I'm tellin' ya', Edward, get that girl a hood. If she can't see that she's outside, she'll never know it.

edwardpiercy # 27. September 2009, 22:25

@ Darko

Oh I think Star is still up for it. Ore at least she was the last time we talked about it.

@ Martin

I think Sasha would make a very good dingo.

@ Star

Maybe I could get her a white hood and a cute matching white robe.

Uh, on second thought...

Stardancer # 27. September 2009, 22:56

Edward, you are a riot.

edwardpiercy # 27. September 2009, 23:11

Thank you very much Star. It might be my one good quality that hasn't rotted away of late.

ellinidata # 28. September 2009, 00:00

""You mean, we're
supposed to FEED the cattle?"

who would have thought !!!

my utilities alone are over a thousand dollars a month so I won't even get into the housing expenses .....

I hope your ideas do not give nightmares to Mrs Piercy

she is a true hero

edwardpiercy # 28. September 2009, 00:28

She was the one who brought the subject up. She's always telling me all of these stories about the apartment complex and our neighbors that I could care less about. I generally just mind my own business.

Nice cow picture!

Hope you are recuperating from work and feeling better!

edwardpiercy # 28. September 2009, 02:21

@ Angeliki

A) When are you coming back? Do you have an exact date yet? Please hurry.

B) Why is it called "cheesecake"??? You make it in a pie pan. It has filling like pie. It has crust kinda-sorta like pie. So why isn't it called "cheesepie"???

ellinidata # 28. September 2009, 02:40

A) 10/1/09

B) cream cheese makes cheese cakes, feta cheese makes cheese pies

Originally posted by edwardpiercy:

Please hurry.

typical man!

edwardpiercy # 28. September 2009, 02:49

ROTF. Typical man indeed!

As for the cheesepie thing, "more research needs to be done in this area" (the No. 1 used phrase in anthropology.

)

ellinidata # 28. September 2009, 03:03

hahaha try to forget all now,
AMC -----------------> MAD MEN starts right now!

edwardpiercy # 28. September 2009, 03:25

Watching the first installment of Ken Burns' national park series and then gotta see my Kathryn Morris and her tiny little butt on the season premier of Cold Case. I don't watch repeats over the summer, so it's been a good number of months since I've seen her.

ellinidata # 28. September 2009, 04:31

enjoy!

I am off tomorrow and schools are closed in NY *dances happy *

G/nite every body! *runs and hugs her bed! *

gdare # 28. September 2009, 04:55

Originally posted by edwardpiercy:

Oh I think Star is still up for it. Ore at least she was the last time we talked about it.

I know Star is up for it. I meant, you should talk with Sasha

edwardpiercy # 28. September 2009, 05:07

Oh.

Well, as for Sasha, I don't think she is much the world traveler.

gdare # 28. September 2009, 05:22

But if you explain the positive sides of it, maybe she will agree to go to Down Under

edwardpiercy # 28. September 2009, 05:29

Down Under the covers to hide, more like it.

gdare # 28. September 2009, 05:34

edwardpiercy # 28. September 2009, 11:30

BTW I want to mention that if the people can't pay their rent due to economic difficulties like losing their jobs then I hope that something can be worked out. I ran into some trouble myself back in Summer 2005 and had to get some help with things in order to not get evicted.

Luckily, I'm still here. And have been now for 10 years.

PainterWoman # 28. September 2009, 21:49

Getting evicted isn't fun for anyone, but I sure hope the three aren't elderly. I would hate to be in that situation.

Aqualion # 29. September 2009, 06:31

I got evicted too, back in '97, due to an administrative error. Lost all my furniture on that occasion, plus some fine pieces of art. That was when I decided modern life wasn't worth the effort and sort of dropped out and became homeless for four years. This can be done in Denmark, even though it gets cold in the winter. We have good homeless shelters, soup kitchens and such.

edwardpiercy # 29. September 2009, 17:10

Wow that's a new item. Sorry that it happened, Martin. An administrative error? That's ridiculous.

Aqualion # 29. September 2009, 17:47

You wouldn't believe the bureaucracy we have in Denmark. It's Kafka times 50. And the 'best' thing about it is, that nobody knows who's responsible when something gets messed up, because it's all smokescreened by papers. It's common procedure that papers just get lost. Important stuff too. You just get somebody on the phone who says, that accidently the paper got lost somewhere, and there's nothing you can do, but start all over. Everything takes forever. We just moved, and a few days later we discovered, that a prior tenant still figured as living in the apartment. We found out that he'd mooved seven - yes, seven years - ago. I phoned the city administration and was forwarded four times until I got to the responsible assistent. She told me, they were sorry and to get it fixed. I asked her how long it would take, and she said two to three weeks! I just put down the phone. It's like every piece of paper work has to pass through the hands of the entire World before it can be signed and the job's done.

My time as homeless was not that bad. I stayed with friends most of the time.

edwardpiercy # 29. September 2009, 18:07

That reminds me of the couple of Inspector Wallander mysteries I saw on television, always getting tied down in administrative bullshit.

Your instance sounds worse, though.