No one believes me

[trinityvixen]

Part of the continuing problem I have with our apartment's anything is that the super, the manager, and anyone they hire to work on the building never believes a word I say. It's worked out to a point where I, returning the favor, no longer believe anything they say.

This is why the super telling me "Oh, just five minutes, just five minutes" and then taking twenty to locate and three trips to the basement over another thirty to finish has left me more than a little irate from time to time. I must have called about our front gate being broken about every other week since OUR ROOMMATE WAS MUGGED, only to have nothing done. (It took a face-to-face with the manager to get anyone in to look at it. The key problem is mostly solved, but the door still gapes. Yay new round of phonecalls.)

Currently, they are replacing the gas lines. We've had no gas for three weeks and it might take another three before they finish and get Con Ed in to approve and restart our gas. We need to harass them about giving us a decent discount on our rent. But the real story about that is the people they've got doing this job. On Monday, our apartment row (meaning our apartment and the ones above and below) had its turn to be fixed up. They came banging at 8 am, waking up darkling1 to say they'd be there in half an hour. They came an hour and a half later.

This morning, more banging at 9:30 am, and I get up to answer. The construction guy wants some key back from me. I wake up at 9:30 on a good day if I'm lucky, since I usually roll out of bed, brush teeth, get dressed and start my walk to work in the span of 5 minutes and don't need to be at work until 10:00, so I'm a little fuzzy on this. I ask him what he means. They gave a key to a neighbor for some apartment they'r'e now working on (they had set up show at the column of apartments across the hall today), and he's sure it's us.

Now, I am never awake when anyone else is getting ready to leave, so maybe this is so. I ask which roommate he would have left this key with. I am, however, skeptical, because I'm sure I'd have heard from either darkling1 or feiran if this was the case. He says a white guy has it. I'm not sure how you'd confuse either of my roommates for a white guy, and upon further inquiry, I find out that it was a curly, blonde-haired white guy. Definitely not our apartment, I say.

"I'm sorry, no one of that description lives at this apartment" ought to be good enough for this guy--who doesn't really know which apartment he left this key with. Of course, it isn't. He wants me to be absolutely sure I haven't forgotten who I live with. I have lived with two white girls and two half-Asian folk. I have never lived with a curly, blonde dude. (I don't think I know any blonde guys with curly hair.) So, no, I haven't miscounted, misremembered, or misplaced and curly-haired blonde guys.

IT STILL TAKES THREE REPEATS TO GET HIM TO GO AWAY.

F'list, I ask you: do I have a lying face or something? I know I say a lot of stupid shit, but I don't lie very often. I'm actually not very good at it. So why doesn't anyone believe me when I tell them shit? Is it just because that's not what they want to hear?

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Great... I'm also absolutely certain I will never give them a key to the apartment.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

New York City has renters' rights laws

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No kidding: why would we trust this place that blames tenants when someone is mugged and hires people who can't remember who they've loaned keys to?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what they're doing illegally, really, just that it's annoying. To replace the gas being out, we were given portable, electric burners. I'm just going to have to make the case to them that this is not an acceptable month-and-a-half solution.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

Electric isn't as efficient. That costs you money in terms of your electric bill. It also (presumably) doesn't give you an oven.

There's also the issue of the front door. It should be secure if designed that way.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Technically? I think the best liars are the ones who appear to give themselves away on stuff that doesn't matter, so that people think they know when the person is lying.

But that's neither here nor there. Maybe it was too early for the English to have kicked in with this guy's brain.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

We're definitely calling them to complain and request a discount because we don't, in fact, have any sort of oven replacement. And the front door problem. It's just amazing how stupid they can be about this despite repeated warnings.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

But that's neither here nor there. Maybe it was too early for the English to have kicked in with this guy's brain.

Or he assumed it was too early for it to have gotten through to me, seeing as I was in a robe, bed-head and all.

(And you say I'm offensive? Hee!)

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

I still say that if they don't respond promptly this time, you should ask bigscary for a recommendation and talk to an appropriate lawyer. Make sure you let the landlord know you're doing that.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Hey, I have never claimed to be not-offensive. I just also don't give a crap if people think I am.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's it. You caught me. I'm trying to sabotage your absolutely adorable romance. I knew I was a good liar, but wow! I'm even better than I thought.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's why we love you.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Glad to have provided the opportunity. :)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, okay, now I'm confused...why is the bunny crying and who were those people in the other icon?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's much better!