Plan for this past weekend was to take advantage of the perfect weather we’d had all week, head to the college, collect Pokéballs, log in some walking miles.
Plot Switch … a change in the weather, to cold and drizzly, put me into a coma. I slept the weekend away.
Waking up this morning, tuning into Court TV as I prepared for the day, I found the verdict was in on the Harvey Weinstein trial ─ guilty of two out of five counts.
Chickens have come home to roost, dude.
So there’s that, but I had no time to dawdle over news of the fallout this morning, because I had to get down to the Community Room by 10:00 for the Residents’/Management meet, prepared to duck out and head for the Pain Cave if not over by 11:20.
It wasn’t. So, I did not get to stay for everything discussed, but did bring up the smoke detector.
We’d had a service power outage, 1:00 am thru 3:00 a.m., Saturday.
Ordinarily, I’d have slept blissfully unaware of the outage, finding out about it only when I awoke that morning to find the microwave needed rebooting.
That ordinarily would have been the scenario, except the outage caused the smoke detector to begin beeping, and it beeped the entire two hours.
After looking at several YouTube howto videos since deciding I need to put in a new detector my own darn self, I’m not at all comfortable with touching the wires, afraid I’d electrocute myself. Instead, I brought it up in the meeting, said it was defective, requested a new one.
”We’ll look into that” repeated Community Manager for like the umpteenth time.
Assistant Community Manager chimed in. “Sometimes carbon monoxide builds up. It would help if you had your windows open”.
Help who … the burglars and rapists, thought I. But what I said was, “You want me, a single woman, to sleep with my windows open?”
“You live upstairs”, said she.
What's one floor up going to do? What's one floor up going to stop? All I can say is ....
Bless your heart. That fire alarm would be pissing me off. Things happen, we all understand that but your (multiple) management officials have just not done their duty. I wish I could think of something really good to do but I don't know anyone who has out-thought the authorities on this one.
ReplyDeleteIt appears no one does their job these days, as I was counting on the Fire Department’s smoke detector inspection to get management into a lot of hot water. The Fire Department guy did come onto the property, but he skipped his inspection of quite a few units, mine included. Probably lied on his form that he did them all. But oh well. This is a lesson in patience. Something will eventually come along re this issue that will give me the opportunity to put management in hot water. On the other hand, I could ask Handsome Man to do it for me, but I don’t want to. Long story. A story I'm still processing. Might share later, might not.
DeleteStupid people you can't fix... as comedian Ron White once said, stupid is forever! *WINKS* It reminds me of something the VA Disability Board said to The Man years ago about his Hearing Loss due to being a Sniper in his Marine Corps. Career and on the Flight Line during his Air Force Career. The Idiot Officer who'd clearly never been in a Combat situation asked him why didn't he wear ear plugs when he was a Sniper!? The Man calmly said, "Because I wanted to come Home Alive Sir." Special Forces Sniper, out in the Jungle surrounded by Enemies and needing to be highly alert... wearing Ear Plugs, it would have been hilarious as a Joke, but this Idiot was serious and Evaluating Disabled Veterans for their Disability Rating and Entitlement! OMG!
ReplyDeleteEar plugs probably wouldn't have made a difference, because I recall reading that the armed forces supplied their service members with inferior ear plugs and those service members are now experiencing hearing loss.
DeleteAm I going to have to come out there and take that noisy thing down and put up a battery powered one?! Actually that would probably be against code. I think all residences now have to have 120v powered alarms because "STUPID PEOPLE DON'T REPLACE DEAD BATTERIES"!
ReplyDeleteInteresting...our home was built with a wired-in smoke alarm but about 20 years were told that they were no longer permitted and we had to replace with battery operated detectors. When we had a new roof put on, the permit people would not sign off for the roof until we put similar detectors in each bedroom as well as carbon monoxide detector in a location near the floor. That detector is plugged into the electrical system.
DeleteWe plan to disconnect all four of the high ones on our cathedral ceilings as there is no way we could get up there again if they went off. We will replace with battery powered ones at a lower height. In all there are 11 smoke detectors in this house so I am not worried even if a few are disconnected. When we sell we would have to have all according to code.
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