I hate this apartment

[avram]

I hate this apartment, I hate this building, I hate the management company, I hate the gods-rotted super, and most of all I hate the goddamn incompetent electrician who wired this place up way back in the nineteenth goddamn century under the assumption that a family might, if they’re really cutting edge, own perhaps two small electrical appliances. Why?

Because at one o’ clock in the fucking morning I turned on my toaster oven (in the kitchen, on one circuit) while my air conditioner (in the bedroom, on a different circuit) was already on, and the power in my entire apartment went off. The circuit breakers in my apartment hadn’t tripped — I tried flipping them off and on to make sure — this was the breaker in the basement that only the super has access to. (The circuit breakers in my apartment have never, ever tripped; it’s always the main one in the basement. I think my apartment was wired by Nikola Tesla himself, working under the assumption that the advent of broadcast power was imminent.)

So, no lights, no clocks, no air conditioning, and it’s like a billion degrees out tonight. I call my super, and what does his wife tell me? He’s asleep now, (though I can hear him talking to her in the background) he’ll be there at five-thirty, you have to be patient. The words of someone who has air conditioning where she sleeps.

Hate. Hate, hate, hate, hate. Hate.

Comments

[mneme]

Ug -- my sympathies (and I'd be highly tempted to break into the basement at this point).

You may want to look into what rights you've got to file a grevance on this type of thing -- you -may- have some legal possibilities, I don't know.

OTOH...having a laptop is pretty cool, isn't it? :)

[avram]

Actually breaking in would require lockpick skills, the metal grillwork is too strong for me to just kick in as I probably could an ordinary wooden door. I think my best bet is convincing the landlord or super to give me a duplicate key.

Yeah, laptops rock. I don't know if "cool" is the word for a TiBook -- turns out titanium conducts heat real well.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your 19th century wiring. We've decided to run the laptop off batteries to minimize heat while we try to fix our air conditioner.

Too damn hot.