We have all of the windows shut to keep the rain out and it’s so damn hot in here I’m about to have to go to take a long cold shower just to bring my core temperature back down under boiling. And yet, our roof leaks and water runs down the walls.
So, why are we leaving the windows shut?
Rain gets in anyway. Might as well be cool and soggy as opposed to hot and soggy.
Also, the Butcher blah-blah-blahed about me starting yet another afghan with even more yarn when I still had so much lying around. America, I swear to god, if I had not learned the skill of tuning everything out while I’m playing Age of Mythology, I might have had to stuff crayons up his nose until he was dead.
I have never once demanded he pick up his art crap. Not after he got wax on the couch in the name of art. Not after he got wax all over the carpet in the name of art. Not after all of the glasses he drinks out of while he’s making his art got covered in wax by his art and then he went around making grand proclaimations about how he doesn’t drink out of our glasses here at home because I don’t get them clean when the “clean” he wants means absent of his wax which he got on the glasses in the name of art in the name of art.
No, I respect that a person needs a creative outlet and that that might lead to color escaping its confines and smearing itself across the house.
Eh, well, fuck it. I’m not even that mad about it anymore because it’s too hot in here to think.
But here’s something I’ve been pondering.
The moved-out neighbors, when they left, turned off the power and the water. How did they get the water turned off? Were they paying a water bill which then allowed them to call up the water people and tell them to turn the water off because they would no longer be paying for it?
We’ve lived here, I guess, about six years, maybe seven, if I thought about it. No, I think six.
Anyway, over half a decade. I’ve never once paid a water bill. I’ve always assumed my landlord was paying it. And yet…
I don’t know. I’m afraid to ask too many questions.
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At least in Illinois and Iowa, landlords almost always pay the water bill. I never received a water/sewer/trash bill until I bought a house. I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
Well, all the bazillion places I lived in Middle Tennessee and the three I’ve lived in West Tennessee, I’ve never been so lucky to have water paid for. HOWEVER – always seems like everyone else I have ever known (especially in apts & condos) does have theirs paid for.
I’m pretty sure you’re OK.
I must de-lurk here to comment on how providential it was that I read this post when I did. It reminded me that I must pay my water bill by the 15th or risk shut off (just an oversight, the bill is quarterly, and got misplaced, mostly I’m better about keeping the wolf from the door). So thank you, Aunt B, for that.