i think my landlady is a retard.

she`s a very nice lady, and very easy to deal with, but she`s either so distracted that she can`t process the written word (menopause maybe; she`s about the right age) or she`s just a moron.

she has told me repeatedly that the best way to communicate is via email.  cool, works for me.  but she regularly ignores, misunderstands, or just doesn`t get stuff.  she doesn`t answer questions, and she doesn`t know things that i`ve told her clearly (and sometimes repeatedly).

this morning i emailed her to ask if she could hold my rent cheque until the first friday of the month, july 3, as that`s when payroll is deposited.  i asked her to do this for the next two months; after that, i think i`ll have enough in reserve to cover the rent on the first, regardless of when payday falls.

that`s clear enough, isn`t itÉ (sorry. my question mark has gone berserk again). 

so i get home from my walk and picking up a few things and get her response: she thinks iève (my appostrophe has gone berserk, too) asked her to hold july and augustès cheques until september.  not only that, sheès going to think about it until monday.

christ on a cross.  what a friggen moron.

Original Post by bagga:

oh starrysea, i haz me some wisers smuggled in from a Canadian friend.

One wisers and coke comin' right up!

 

And no one was the wiser!

Well, forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but it would seem to me that the whole issue could have been avoided by either renting an apartment you could afford or by exercising sufficient budgetary restraint to cover the cheques you knowingly wrote and dated.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're asking your landlady to do you a favour that she's in no way obligated to do, and you're calling her names? 

At least that how it reads to me.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

oh - that was a funny?  sorry

the word "retard" (or 'tard) has a special place in my heart.  i'm not giving it up.

Hi...I'm really hesitant to say anything, especially because I've never posted here before.  I do enjoy reading these forums, though, and I couldn't help noticing this post.

I'm really sorry to hear of your problems with your landlord, pgeorgian.  It sounds pretty frustrating. 

I would like to ask you, however, to please consider your use of the word "retard," especially in such a public place.  I have every confidence that you don't mean anything by it other than to express your frustration with your landlord, but it can be a very hurtful word.  No matter how benign one's intentions are, using "retard" as an insult reinforces negative ideas about mental retardation and people with cognitive disabilities.  Since the word is often used as an insult specifically directed at people who actual mental retardation, even its general use can really hurt people's feelings.  Especially in a forum like this, where you never know who is reading.

Again, I really hope my saying this isn't seen as too annoying or anything...I just really felt like that needed to be said.  Thank you for listening.

You are all missing the point.  One is supposed to pay one's rent on time.  It is not the landlady who is the retard. 

With all due respect turtletot, read post #82

Excuse me posters #83 and #84, why in the heck didn't you read at least most of the first page of the posts before enlightening us with your opinions.

Poster #82 is a troublemaker of grand proportions and I love him.

Yup - sticky situation alright.  I get why Pg want the landlady to hold the check for a couple of days.  I get paid once a month myself and if a bill is due the day I get paid the billing company often does not register the payment until the day after it is due.

Afordability is not the issue - timing is and it is very frustrating to know you can pay the bill - but to get dinged for it anyway.

Frankly the landlady sounds as though she may indeed have some difficulty with simple logic.  I call this "brain compression".  a similar thing happens when you are pregnant  lol

Pay the rent late pg - after the first couple of months you will be paying on time.  No harm, no foul and you never have to ask her a thing!  But keep all of your emails "just in case"

Original Post by jblarghp:

I hate that word

and using smiley faces to portray how I feel.

I still can't figure it out...

Something that rhymes with brass roll that's below the waist? I can't figure it out!

Let me help you with it. A $  $  whole.

Oh so I did have it. I wasn't sure because there were only 4 asterisks... I got confused by that.

Ok then, ignore me! (thanks mooni!)

Original Post by alleggy:

Original Post by pgeorgian:

oh - that was a funny?  sorry

the word "retard" (or 'tard) has a special place in my heart.  i'm not giving it up.

Hi...I'm really hesitant to say anything, especially because I've never posted here before.  I do enjoy reading these forums, though, and I couldn't help noticing this post.

I'm really sorry to hear of your problems with your landlord, pgeorgian.  It sounds pretty frustrating. 

I would like to ask you, however, to please consider your use of the word "retard," especially in such a public place.  I have every confidence that you don't mean anything by it other than to express your frustration with your landlord, but it can be a very hurtful word.  No matter how benign one's intentions are, using "retard" as an insult reinforces negative ideas about mental retardation and people with cognitive disabilities.  Since the word is often used as an insult specifically directed at people who actual mental retardation, even its general use can really hurt people's feelings.  Especially in a forum like this, where you never know who is reading.

Again, I really hope my saying this isn't seen as too annoying or anything...I just really felt like that needed to be said.  Thank you for listening.

Wow. I didn't realise anyone was still offended by the word retard. How quaint.

jesus.  who comes into a thread on page-freaking-five to lecture without even reading page-freaking-one?

i'm so misunderstood.

I agree with #82 but still think most of you are missing the point besides,

Some doctor on the TV this morning said that the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started.  

So I looked around my house to see things I'd started and hadn't finished and before leaving the house this
morning, I finished off a bottle of 101 Wild Turkey, a bottle of shhhardonay, a bodle of Baileys, abutle of vocka,  

a pockage of Pringlies, tha mainder of a botl Prozic and Valum sscriptins, the res of the Chesescke an a box a
chocolets.  

Yu haf no idr who frekin gud I fel.
 
Peas sen dis orn to anyy yu fee ar in ned ov inr pece.  And there goes your diet, to hell with the rent.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

jesus.  who comes into a thread on page-freaking-five to lecture without even reading page-freaking-one?

i'm so misunderstood.

jesus pg youre such a drama queen.

an efficient time manager?

someone who couldn't care less?

is that a rule that you have to read every damn page and all the stupid comments therein before you can comment on the stupid comments and therefore making the entire thread even more retarded?

who wants to read 5 pages about your rent payment?

did you just call me a retard?

i dont think i could read more than a post or 2 even if it was about my own damn rent!

put the hag face back up pg, its more intimidating.

Original Post by turtletot:

I agree with #82 but still think most of you are missing the point besides,

i agree with post #82 as well.  but since i've been in grad school for the last three years and just started my new job on june 18th, and since moving money into my chequing account would have required going to a credit union, having them call my branch (which is a branch of a regional credit union in another region) to confirm that i have the funds and release the cash, walk the cash down the street to a branch of the bank where i do my everyday banking, and deposit it, it was a little more convenient to ask my landlady to wait until the 3rd (when i get paid for my first six days of work, which will cover the rent - thanks).

and if you'd read even the first page (or even my first post), i think you'd have got that.  but thanks for calling me a deadbeat loser.

Original Post by splitrail:

Well, forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but it would seem to me that the whole issue could have been avoided by either renting an apartment you could afford or by exercising sufficient budgetary restraint to cover the cheques you knowingly wrote and dated.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're asking your landlady to do you a favour that she's in no way obligated to do, and you're calling her names? 

At least that how it reads to me.

your reading ability sucks.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

Original Post by splitrail:

Well, forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but it would seem to me that the whole issue could have been avoided by either renting an apartment you could afford or by exercising sufficient budgetary restraint to cover the cheques you knowingly wrote and dated.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're asking your landlady to do you a favour that she's in no way obligated to do, and you're calling her names? 

At least that how it reads to me.

your reading ability sucks.

 Perhaps I'm a retard?

split, i haven't seen any evidence of that until now.

Original Post by turtletot:

Some doctor on the TV this morning said that the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started.  

So I looked around my house to see things I'd started and hadn't finished and before leaving the house this
morning, I finished off a bottle of 101 Wild Turkey, a bottle of shhhardonay, a bodle of Baileys, abutle of vocka,  

a pockage of Pringlies, tha mainder of a botl Prozic and Valum sscriptins, the res of the Chesescke an a box a
chocolets.  

Yu haf no idr who frekin gud I fel.
 
Peas sen dis orn to anyy yu fee ar in ned ov inr pece.  And there goes your diet, to hell with the rent.

lol

Original Post by splitrail:

 Perhaps I'm a retard?

 only if you dress like this split

i am definitely a retard, my daughter tells me that all the time. its just her way of showing affection...thats how i know she loves me.