Rainy Days and Monday and Apache

Waking up this morning, it once again looked like I was going to have to swim to today’s workout. Fortunately, when it came time to leave, the weather gods slowed the rain down, enabling me to get there and back.

Returning to the complex, I ran into my buddy Apache who said he’d just gotten back from the courthouse.

No surprise there, he’d said he was going to sue ─ take the corporation, and their attorneys to court for harassment.

The surprise was that he went to the courthouse and filed a restraining order … on the Community Manager because, in addition to everything else management and their attorneys have done to try to get him (Apache) out of here, the Community Manager recently put in writing, something to the effect “Your unit has been sold. The new owner wants you out.”

That’s laughable, because this complex is owned by a corporation. There can’t possibly be a new owner for only one unit, and how stupid to put something like that in writing.

All hell is going to break loose when Community Manager gets served … and I didn’t know anyone could take a restraining order out on what is essentially the landlord.

The Complex Manager doesn’t live here, but his office isn’t all that far away from Apache’s unit. So, it’s going to be interesting to see how manager is going to comply with however many feet he has to stay away, or maybe this is Apache’s way of stopping the threatening correspondence. Community Manager, once served, can send no more emails, post no further 3-day notices to Apache’s door.

The only other time I’ve seen anything like this — where a restraining order is placed on an individual in close proximity, was in 2005 at the agency I retired from — the klan place.

The Main Klansman (MK) manhandled the female Safety Officer (FSO) in a way that caused injury to her arm and shoulder.

She had bruises.

Pictures were taken.

And then the police arrived and served MK with a Temporary Restraining Order.

The two worked in the same area ... Not 15 steps from each other's office.

MK complied with the TRO by keeping his door closed most of the day, then took a sudden vacation.

The two eventually ended up in court, with her seeking a Permanent Restraining Order (PRO) because, not only did they work not 15 steps from each other, they lived in the same area and she was alleging stalking.

The klan members showed up at the court hearing in force to support MK and, according to FSO, all lied about what they witnessed day of the manhandling incident.

Consequently, the judge ruled against a PRO saying, MK had a clean record, had never been in that kind of trouble before, it would go on his record, ruin MK’s life and that what he had been doing (The incident in the office, following her in the neighborhood, showing up wherever she went) did not warrant having his life ruined.

MK kept his job, FSO was harassed out of the agency.

I don’t know if filing against Community Manager is genius or madness, but I’d sure like to see manager’s face when the cops show up and serve him.

I’ll leave you with Hillary’s summation — which I love so much, of Megan’s situation.

Preach, sista. Amen.