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hatam_soferet) wrote2004-03-01 09:57 pm
hatam_soferet) wrote2004-03-01 09:57 pm
picky landlady
Just had email from old landlady. She's grousing about what a terrible state her flat is in.
Some of her complaints are legitimate. Apparently she paid someone to arrange her library before she left, and we didn't put the books back properly. If she had explained that beforehand, I would have been a lot more careful. So I do feel bad about that. And apparently we were supposed to dust inside her stereo, and clean the artwork (which was all completely hideous, by the way). Well, it doesn't occur to me to clean inside things I'm not using, so I didn't. Whatever. And the artwork was inside glass frames, which yes, it didn't occur to me to dust, but she says they're irreparably damaged, and apparently that's my fault, which I don't think is fair.
And she's also going on about a lot of stuff we never did. Apparently we broke the dishwasher, the tumble dryer, a fan, a roller blind, etc, etc...well, here's news - we didn't use any of those things, either because she'd said they were broken, or she said they were delicate. She says the rugs are water damaged and faded. Well, I wouldn't know, because she rolled them all up before she left and stored them in her spare room. We didn't use the bloody things. And apparently the vacuum cleaner is bust. Well, given that there weren't any rugs, we didn't use the cleaner, ergo we didn't break it, but that doesn't seem to be good enough. And she seems pissed off that the previous tenants stole her mezuzot - well, we didn't do it.
She also said we left the toilets crusted with shit. Me leave a toilet crusted with shit? I did NOT. And apparently the limescale buildup on everything was completely unacceptable. I descaled about once a month, it's news to me that you're supposed to do it every day. And she said "everything was sticky and dusty" - I cleaned! I bloody cleaned as if it was Pesach before we moved out, but apparently "I think it is important for you to comprehend the gap between what you considered as reasonable and what is the acceptable norm."
I'm torn between feeling horribly guilty that I failed so massively, and feeling pissed off (given that I've never had a comment like that from any other landlord).
...edited to add...and W got rejected for Wexner (prestigious well-paying scholarship). So on the whole I feel like crap and I need affection, and W is no good because he is too angry about all the above, and tells me to forget about it while maintaining this very, very scary veneer of cheerful calm over explosive rage. He doesn't hit me, but it's like trying to get affection from a bomb.
Some of her complaints are legitimate. Apparently she paid someone to arrange her library before she left, and we didn't put the books back properly. If she had explained that beforehand, I would have been a lot more careful. So I do feel bad about that. And apparently we were supposed to dust inside her stereo, and clean the artwork (which was all completely hideous, by the way). Well, it doesn't occur to me to clean inside things I'm not using, so I didn't. Whatever. And the artwork was inside glass frames, which yes, it didn't occur to me to dust, but she says they're irreparably damaged, and apparently that's my fault, which I don't think is fair.
And she's also going on about a lot of stuff we never did. Apparently we broke the dishwasher, the tumble dryer, a fan, a roller blind, etc, etc...well, here's news - we didn't use any of those things, either because she'd said they were broken, or she said they were delicate. She says the rugs are water damaged and faded. Well, I wouldn't know, because she rolled them all up before she left and stored them in her spare room. We didn't use the bloody things. And apparently the vacuum cleaner is bust. Well, given that there weren't any rugs, we didn't use the cleaner, ergo we didn't break it, but that doesn't seem to be good enough. And she seems pissed off that the previous tenants stole her mezuzot - well, we didn't do it.
She also said we left the toilets crusted with shit. Me leave a toilet crusted with shit? I did NOT. And apparently the limescale buildup on everything was completely unacceptable. I descaled about once a month, it's news to me that you're supposed to do it every day. And she said "everything was sticky and dusty" - I cleaned! I bloody cleaned as if it was Pesach before we moved out, but apparently "I think it is important for you to comprehend the gap between what you considered as reasonable and what is the acceptable norm."
I'm torn between feeling horribly guilty that I failed so massively, and feeling pissed off (given that I've never had a comment like that from any other landlord).
...edited to add...and W got rejected for Wexner (prestigious well-paying scholarship). So on the whole I feel like crap and I need affection, and W is no good because he is too angry about all the above, and tells me to forget about it while maintaining this very, very scary veneer of cheerful calm over explosive rage. He doesn't hit me, but it's like trying to get affection from a bomb.