Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Nearly all apartment buildings are the same in that if there's a piece of paper in the middle of a hallway floor the tenants step over it for a month rather than pick it up & throw it away. It's a proprietary thing; if one doesn't own the building or rent the hallway, then don't bother. A basement smoke alarm has beeping here for weeks; it probably just needs a 9V backup battery. If I lived in a basement apartment I would replace the battery myself rather have to listen to it until the landlord decides to take care of it. Forget about anyone voluntarily disposing of the twenty plastic bags of weekly sales flyers that get dumped on the stoop every week. The owner of this building, like the owner of my previous abode, pays a guy to put out the garbage & pick up the litter. A building around the corner apparently has no such service; the street out front always has paper, empty cans, Burger King trash in it - & this stuff blows into the adjoining yards - that's an ugly half-block. If tenants are indifferent to their surroundings then they don't have to admit they'll always be renters, never owners.
This apartment is a little buggy around the sink, no surprise given the age & type of building, so I'll have to be a cleaner, neater person; no leaving the dishes unwashed overnight or not cleaning the counter after meals. You don't want them telling their friends & families. I'm already getting into that habit. Irving Street was unusual; professionally sprayed every month, rarely saw an insect that didn't fly in from outside. Had a bee next in the garage area underneath me, & during warm weather these nasty buzzers worked their way through the wall & into my place via the air conditioner, only one at a time, fortunately. My Linden apartment, a four family, had an occasional mouse & few creepy crawlies of the thbousand leg variety. The Music Studio on Milton Ave. in Rahway hosted the big roaches that come up from the basement - & that building had a Chinese take out & a convenience store in it, yuck. But people near fields & woods have it worse. My sister has chipmunks infesting patio & garden area, attracted by the many bird feeders. The population of these rodents grew so quickly that I surmised something in the syrrounding environment had changed, probably involving an absence of cats. Squirrels get in the ceiling. Ant colonies try to migrate into her kitchen. & deer ticks in the bushes; remember when it was safe to walk through the woods in shorts? What's Boy Scout camp like now?
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
This apartment is a little buggy around the sink, no surprise given the age & type of building, so I'll have to be a cleaner, neater person; no leaving the dishes unwashed overnight or not cleaning the counter after meals. You don't want them telling their friends & families. I'm already getting into that habit. Irving Street was unusual; professionally sprayed every month, rarely saw an insect that didn't fly in from outside. Had a bee next in the garage area underneath me, & during warm weather these nasty buzzers worked their way through the wall & into my place via the air conditioner, only one at a time, fortunately. My Linden apartment, a four family, had an occasional mouse & few creepy crawlies of the thbousand leg variety. The Music Studio on Milton Ave. in Rahway hosted the big roaches that come up from the basement - & that building had a Chinese take out & a convenience store in it, yuck. But people near fields & woods have it worse. My sister has chipmunks infesting patio & garden area, attracted by the many bird feeders. The population of these rodents grew so quickly that I surmised something in the syrrounding environment had changed, probably involving an absence of cats. Squirrels get in the ceiling. Ant colonies try to migrate into her kitchen. & deer ticks in the bushes; remember when it was safe to walk through the woods in shorts? What's Boy Scout camp like now?
The Small Print: Iraq Casualties 4/20/04 - 4/26/04: 19 deadAdd YOUR comments here
