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Comment on Search Engine Results: A glimpse of this websites audience. by e-dawg

e-dawg — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:22:05 +0000

I like this one: “if my shower faucet handle comes off will water go everywhere”

Comment on The Dangers of Sleep Medications by enforcer

enforcer — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:47:19 +0000

Those are some great stories!

I remember one night I was sleeping over at a friends house and his brother came stumbling down the hall and opened a closet. He just stood there staring into it… Silent…

We asked him what he was doing and he said: “I’m looking for the instructions to the carpet” He then turned around and headed back to his room.

We asked him about it the next day and he thought we were making it all up!

Comment on The Dangers of Sleep Medications by adnrobin

adnrobin — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:34:56 +0000

When my step-daughter was younger she was a frequent sleepwalker.

If we were awake when she did it, we would just try to gently herd her back into bed…she had a propensity for taking strange objects and hiding them under her bed and that was usually great entertainment for us!

One time, her dad and I were sound asleep and she came and woke us up around 3am, she was fully dressed and her hair was done and she informed us she was ready for school. She never got ready that well when she was fully awake!!!

However, a tenant who almost burns his apartment up under the influence of sleeping meds is not so funny….and kind of scary!

Comment on The Dangers of Sleep Medications by e-dawg

e-dawg — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:12:57 +0000

Dude… My brother. All the friggin’ time. When we were younger, I was hanging out in the family room, and my brother came walking out of his bedroom, bumping into walls and stuff. He went into the living room and stood in front of the fireplace. I was watching him wondering what the heck he was doing… It was then that I heard a continuous stream of liquid hitting a burnt up old log in the fireplace; he thought the fireplace was a toilet. I yelled at him to wake the “eff” up and clean that up, and he just stared at me blankly… For a long time. Real eerie stuff, like he was a zombie. It really freaked me out, and it still does to this day. He has no recollection of it at all. I swear it wasn’t him in that body. It was someone borrowing his physical being. I’m getting shivers now. WOW!!!

Nice graphic BTW.

Comment on Just a drip… by enforcer

enforcer — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:18:08 +0000

Thanks Graham.
I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who has made this mistake. Its amazing how much water can come out of a half inch pipe in just a few minutes!

I’ve thought a lot about it since it happened and I think if I had to do it again and was thinking more clearly, I probably would have tried to grab some vice grips out of my tool bucket and secure one of the towels to the pipe so that it would just deflect all the water down into the tub (Instead of letting it spray in a stream that was splashing everywhere.) That would have allowed me to go shut off the buildings water temporarily.

ha ha… but when something like this is happening, sometimes its impossible to think clearly and you just panic!!

Thanks for visiting Graham! I’ve got a ton of crazy stories from being an apartment manager! I’ll try to add some more really soon!

Comment on Just a drip… by Graham

Graham — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:41:49 +0000

A great story well told.

You’ll be happy to know that you’re not alone in this. I pulled the exact same stunt earlier this week (although my response was to run downstairs and seek help from the superintendent). The real laugh is that it turned out the shut-off valve was in the apartment under the bathroom sink. Unfortunately, by the time this was brought to my attention, there was a healthy pool of water covering about 1/4 of the unit. I can’t quite explain why I allowed myself to believe that the valve could be fixed without shutting the water off. As you said, rookie mistake, I suppose.

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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:20:16 +0000

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Comment on Introduction of a new topic: Quick Tips, quick fixes to maitenance problems. by aksupafly

aksupafly — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:16:06 +0000

Any wooden drawer smoothly sliding in and out of a wooden desk would impress me! You now have an impressed friend with a dirty mind…

Comment on Snow removal in Alaska… always a wonderful experience! by enforcer

enforcer — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:31:03 +0000

Wow Jim, If I’m reading this right, it looks like your neighbors snow blower broke your window.

Did he know he did it? Has he done anything to fix it?

Its march 12 and we just got another 3 inches of snow here in Alaska… When will spring arrive!?

Comment on Snow removal in Alaska… always a wonderful experience! by Jim

Jim — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:12:09 +0000

We got dumped on, 12″+ of snow. My neighbor has a snow blower, I have a broken window, arghhhh. I am going to buy the biggest snow blower I can afford heh heh! Let it snow, let it snow , let it snow…..