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Thursday, August 6, 2015

It's Only a Fire

The thirty-five year old boy ran down the outside stairs and banged on my shop door...."Hey, Stephen, help, help."

Needless to say yesterday wasn't a fun day. This building dates to 1949, it's solid construction of concrete block and timber and has withstood the test of time. Well, it had until this man-child moved in upstairs.

Above my shop are two apartments - a very large two bedroom, and a nice studio unit. The boy lives in the studio. He's thirty-five with the maturity of a sixteen year old child.

He continually pisses me off.

And, yesterday he damn near brought this building down with his reckless and slothful ways. He explained he'd crawled from his bed to find water under the closet door - the location of the hot water unit, he then heard 'weird sounds.' He smelled smoke. So, he went back to bed.

Him, "I thought it would clear up and go away..."

Really, he said those exact words.

As he dozed, the water heater went - snap, crackle, pop.

The last pop was the safety valve saving this boy's life. Its design worked very well. It also woke the kid. That's when he ran downstairs to fetch me. I asked was there a problem.

I swear to all that's holy he said, "It's only a fire." I ran upstairs to find a nice mess, and the thermostat on fire. Put it out. Flipped the breaker. Ran back downstairs and closed the water valve to his unit.

The small studio apartment, of course, was flooded. The Boy, "Man, this sure is a mess, who's gonna clean it?"

Certain gene pools should be issued expiration dates.

Stephen


 

25 comments:

  1. Do you own the building or are you both renting from the same place?

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  2. and they breed far too often and worse still, vote.

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  3. If you own the building, you can evict him immediately, although I cannot imagine why you would rent to him in the first place. If you don't own the building you can tell him how stupid he is and not be afraid of him suing you for calling him names. (these stupid dolts are always the first to sue you). Remind him the mess is his to clean up. I am not tolerant of sloth and stupidity.

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  4. Yep, he's definitely past his "sell by" date. Out he should go.

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  5. The gene pool is becoming so yellow, it's starting to look like watered down mustard.

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  6. Oiy! Heck of a way to get your blood moving. Sounds like its time for a better tenant.

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  7. His brother lives next door to me. The one who put a frozen pizza in the oven and then drunkenly passed out to the lullabye of the smoke alarm. I wonder who ties their shoes for them in the morning. Glad you caught it before it became a problem for the fire department.

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  8. When I was a firefighter I met an awful lot of people like that. One of my "favorites" was the guy who was in car accident. Flipped out that his car was damaged. No concern about his heavily pregnant girlfriend -who was having issues.

    By the way, I've been to a gun shop fire and didn't like it.

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  9. Since he is not living at his parents place he is far, far less "whatever" than a large number of his cohort.

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  10. Luckily you were there. Don't even want to think of what could have happened. Sad that the man-boy didn't realize the danger. Perhaps his family can be notified.

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  11. Used to be, Darwin took care of these problems.

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  12. Used to be, Darwin took care of these problems.

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  13. Used to be, Darwin took care of these problems.

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  14. There's an old joke, "I'm not saying we should kill all the stupid people, I'm saying we remove all warning labels and let the problem work its self out." I suppose that that solution would require complete freedom to evict someone from your property on mere suspicion of being an f-tard.

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  15. I see you have met Pajama Boy from the ObummerCare ads.

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  16. Ouch... And glad he didn't burn the place down!

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  17. All I can say is...WOW. You lucked out, and still have your shop.

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  18. All I can say is...WOW. You lucked out, and still have your shop.

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  19. and to think someone somewhere out there conceived him.... scary.

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  20. Trump at least started a conversation in this country about what we were all thinking buy not saying. Illegal aliens are ruining this country, our politicians are stupid and on the take, the guy in the white house hates us. Who else of the so called politicians have even mentioned these things? Trump is waking us up; I don't care how he does it.

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  21. The really terrifying thing is that is exactly how most people are. No concept of any responsibility for themselves.

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  22. This is why we don't rent to anyone unless we have known them for awhile and then it is temporary.

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