Are You Kidding Me?

Running into The Baker yesterday, I asked if she knew the identity of the resident that tested positive.

She did not, but said management has been lying to us.

Management lying is nothing new. Especially lying liar Community Manager, who’s a coward who thinks the way to keep his job is to tell everyone what he thinks they want to hear, make up contradictory answers on the fly.

Evidently lying to us is what Corporate wants because he's the only Community Manager to not be fired by Corporate for some time.

At any rate, The Baker said the current lie is more an omission, in that we were never notified of two recent Covid deaths.

One woman who passed away from Covid lived at the end of the row where Apache’s unit is located. She caught it from her family.

The other is across the grassy knoll, in the building next to where The Seer and Handsome Man live. 

A long-time resident of some 20 years or more, she'd been in the hospital and caught it there.

All total, including the resident who passed away of Covid in August, that makes three Covid deaths that we know of — but management only told us about that first death, Head Maintenance Guy's testing positive, and that an unknown resident has recently tested positive.

If management hopes to keep secrets from us, give out partial information, good luck with that. The trusty Grape Vine will eventually work it's way around and spill the tea.

After catching up with The Baker, I then spotted Apache. He rushed over and the first thing out of his mouth was, “Don’t forget the get-together on Christmas Day”.

“Are you kidding me!”, says I. “We’ve got a resident testing positive that we don’t know who it is, who that person has been around, and I just learned of two Covid deaths”.

So, no more sparing Apache's feelings. This time it was an emphatic NO.

My big plan for Christmas Day (banking on having the laundry room all to myself) is to steam clean the bathroom while the three-piece bathroom rug set is in the laundry room wash.

With no need to go out today, except to check the mailbox — because we can’t leave mail overnight for fear of break-ins, today's plan was to make chicken tamales, eat some today, freeze others.

However, after receiving yet another Public Safety Power Shutoff notice from the power company last night, indicating an outage is scheduled for Wednesday (possibly sooner, due to heavy winds), that plan is also off the table, as there's no point adding anything to the freezer.

So, not only is there no Christmas this year, there’s also no tamales.

Hopefully there'll at least be power Christmas Day, so I can steam clean and do laundry.