I'm moving.

We've decided that we can't stay in this house anymore. Granted, its roughly the 12th time we've decided it, but we're halfway out already so I'm sure this is the final one.

Our landlord is a glib politician slumlord. The type that makes promises but never keeps them. Namely, promises to fix the place up. It sure as hell could use some fixing up.

The roof over the back porn is slowly caving in. It got extrememly bad back in May and June, when the rain was bad. Parts of the ceiling began falling out.

Our downstairs bathroom doesn't flush unless we take the top off the tank and pull the chain, because the handle is broken.

There's a hole in our living room ceiling from where a plumber had to fix a pipe. Our landlord never paid him so he never fixed the hole. It's been there for a few years now.

There's a curve in the roof of our garage, where its starting to fall inward.

When we moved here in 1993, there was no door to my bedroom. Our first landlord said he would try and get one. I never got one when he was landlord, but he wasn't a slumlord; he just fixed other parts of the house and never got a chance to start upstairs.

I've worked in two houses for our new landlord, cleaning out shit-encrusted furniture and old trash that the tenants left behind. I was supposed to receive a door and a refrigerator in payment for the first house. I haven't gotten them, and I finished the house 4 months ago.

I just recently finished the second house, working with my brother and one of his friends. I worked seventeen hours and got paid $20. My brother went through the house finding reasons to not work and got paid $40. While the landlord was handing out money, I inquired about my door.

so marv, what's the story on my door?
door?
the door for my bedroom.
*insert most shocked look in the world on his face*
You don't have it yet?
nope
god damn it ive made the deal half a dozen times already why hasnt he put it in hold on

Landlord walks over to our friendly neighborhood crackhead, whose been employed for numerous odd jobs because his slogan is quite simply "I work for food". He comes back and says "All right tobe, deal is done. He'll find a door and get it in their within a few days. He just needs the measurements and $10 to install it."

I become furious. "$10? You're the one whose supposed to be paying for this. I've held up my end of the bargain. I'm only getting $20 and half of that is going to pay for a door that you are supposed to pay for!"

whoa calm down!
no! you paid my brother more than me, and he was in pennsylvania almost the entire time!
well I only employed you guys because I thought you would have been cheaper than the crackhead, he said he'd do the entire house for $70
you should have gotten him

End of story. The quarrel I had feels kind of juvenile but I'm sticking to my guns. Also it sucks to stick your hand in the toilet tank after you're done taking a shit.

Luckily, our lesbian neighbors are moving out in a few weeks. We've talked to their landlady and we're pretty much shoe-ins for the house. All of the rooms there have doors installed already, and are roach free. The landlady even likes Fluffy, so we're going to take him too. There will be a few problems, moving shit, but some of thats already sorted out. I mentioned to tek and ghost that i was probably going to have to leave my big 200lbs computer desk behind and they said "no way, we can move it."

It's going to suck moving though. Before we moved into this house, we hopped around at various houses, some good, some extremely bad, before stopping here. This was our first real home.

good luck with that

Posted by arioch from 10.0.0.100 @ 08/20/2003 11:20 AM CST

eeep it took out everything that was

Posted by tobester from 65.28.250.8 @ 08/20/2003 02:23 PM CST

everything that was..?

Posted by ryan from 24.68.187.165 @ 08/21/2003 05:23 PM CST

"The roof over the back porn is slowly caving in."

dude don't let the roof cave into the back porn!!

seriously tho, good luck...

and get your ass out of ohio!

Posted by Cyb from 208.58.89.233 @ 08/21/2003 10:46 PM CST

heh

man i must have my mind in other places when I type here

and i cant leave ohio yet

well i probably can but im not gonna

Posted by tobester from 65.28.250.8 @ 08/25/2003 01:35 PM CST