We don't usually come out for that....
I don't think I've ever blogged twice in one day, let alone hours after my last blog. I need to do a little venting.
As I write, in the background at a rate of about once every 35 seconds one of our smoke detectors lets out an ungodly beep...or is that bleep? No, the bleep comes from me. It started late last night - by late, I mean about 10 p.m. By the time I had everything settled down and attempted to silence the dumb thing it was about 10:45. My 5'3" frame just can't reach these 10" ceilings - I don't have a ladder and besides, I pay pretty big bucks for our apartment so somebody else can take care of these pesky things.
I called the maintenance person on call for "emergencies" but didn't get a call back. That was my first indication of who is on call this week-end. This morning I called back at about 8:45. The first question was whether I have a chair to get up and disengage the detector. I related my delemna - too short on one end to do the job. Last night I'd tried the "broom stick" routine he'd recommended before but when I attempted it the thing let out it's ghastly screetch and I was lucky I could calm it down to it's bleeping beep. His response to me was..."we don't usually come out for beeping smoke detectors"... my response to him was that I will just call the office when they open.
Now, I sure as the world wish I could have scheduled the malfunction of the little gem sometime between 8 and 4 Monday through Friday - but somehow the little irritations of life don't arrive on our schedule. Did I say I pay a pretty hefty price for a place somebody else owns, in exchange for a guarantee they will handle all these little irritants I understand I'd have to take care of if it was mine?
Venting....such a wonderful thing. I loved George's post about the 93% - but then there is that 7%, and for me, right now - a bleeping, screetching, beeping smoke detector falls flat in the middle of the 7%.
Oh - and another thing...Right in the middle of this post the electricity went off, I had to reboot the cable connection and fiddle with the printer that wanted to rebel about being disconnected so rudely.
AHHHH.......HMMMM......I'm grateful the electricity came back on, that I don't really have smoke that needs detecting, that I have the ability to analyze and repair little computer glitches......and that we have a roof over our heads because I think it's going to rain today. :blush:
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