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I have a story from an old apartment I lived in: It was a new building and I was the first tenant to live in the apartment. Shortly after moving in, I started hearing a high-pitched beeping sound. My immediate thought was that a smoke detector was running out of batteries, but none of the smoke detectors I could find were making the sound. I checked my apartment, the garage next to me, the neighbor's apartment. Nothing. I complained to the landlord and got no action. Eventually I just stopped hearing it. Whenever I would have company over they would immediately ask about the beeping and I'd briefly become conscious of it and tell them I had no idea what it was. A few people refused this explanation and tried to find it themselves, but ultimately none did. When I decided to move out and into another place with my then-girlfriend, the landlord came over to give an inspection. His first question: what's that beeping? I nearly lost my temper and explained that it was the sound I had complained about several times but could never find. He walked up to a wall and turned around with a smile. "I know what it is." Apparently, when they were building the building, they had to meet some sort of code requirement and had to place a second stairway in the house. As soon as the inspection was done, they walled up the stairway. That new wall was part of my apartment. In that walled off stairway was a smoke detector they had left inside. They were going to have to knock down a wall in order to get that smoke detector. Assholes. Total Party Kill fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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Bad Munki posted:Seriously, that seems like the kind of thing you should report. Maybe I'll look into it. It was a long time ago.
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