Whew!

[Sojourner]

So I'm sitting in my living room, laptop on my lap, and all of a sudden I start hearing banging noises coming from the other side of the house. (I live in a duplex). No one is living there now, so there should be no noise AT ALL coming from there.

After I assured myself that there were indeed rhythmic noises coming from next door, I thought to myself, "Is someone over there stealing all the new appliances?" So I decided to go check.

Lo and behold ... it was my landlord. Whew! He renovated our half of the duplex earlier this year, and has been here on and off working on the other side, and apparently randomly decided to come here from Ohio on a Tuesday night.

My heart has now returned to its normal healthy rate.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Sep 20 2005, 08:23 PM']So I'm sitting in my living room, laptop on my lap, and all of a sudden I start hearing banging noises coming from the other side of the house. (I live in a duplex). No one is living there now, so there should be no noise AT ALL coming from there.

After I assured myself that there were indeed rhythmic noises coming from next door, I thought to myself, "Is someone over there stealing all the new appliances?" So I decided to go check.

Lo and behold ... it was my landlord. Whew! He renovated our half of the duplex earlier this year, and has been here on and off working on the other side, and apparently randomly decided to come here from Ohio on a Tuesday night. 

My heart has now returned to its normal healthy rate. 
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Your landlord is burying corpses in the basement. You should call the police.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Sep 20 2005, 07:25 PM']Your landlord is burying corpses in the basement.  You should call the police.
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I don't think he is. I think he's sawing things. And not holes in concrete so he can bury bodies.



Now I'm all creeped out again. That's not a nice thing to do to a woman at home alone.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Sep 20 2005, 08:37 PM']I don't think he is. I think he's sawing things. And not holes in concrete so he can bury bodies.



Now I'm all creeped out again. That's not a nice thing to do to a woman at home alone.
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They're probably the last tenants. Lock your doors.





I'm just playing...honestly, what's the likelihood?

[Sojourner]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Sep 20 2005, 07:44 PM']They're probably the last tenants.  Lock your doors.
I'm just playing...honestly, what's the likelihood?
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Not much. My landlords are really great people. They prayed with us when we signed the lease and have been SO GOOD to us the whole time, taking care of each of our problems in a very timely fashion. Other places I've lived, I've waited months for repairs to be made, if they're ever made. I really love my landlords now.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Sep 20 2005, 09:01 PM']Not much. My landlords are really great people. They prayed with us when we signed the lease and have been SO GOOD to us the whole time, taking care of each of our problems in a very timely fashion. Other places I've lived, I've waited months for repairs to be made, if they're ever made. I really love my landlords now.
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Cool.

If I ever become a professor here, I'm going to buy a bunch of houses for students to use and be a nice landlord.

[homeschoolmom]

I had a landlord who contracted some painting to be done on the outside of our house (in college)... And they started scraping under my window at 6 AM!!! We didn't even have any warning. And my bed was right under the window... Um... Good morning??? What in the heck are you doing???

[Sojourner]

When I lived in Gas City (yes, that's the name of a real place) my landlord once decided to replace my working refrigerator with a new one the week I had mono. I was home sick, hardly able to talk or move, and they made me get up, empty out my entire refrigerator, and move stuff in my apartment so they could move the old one out and put the new one in. If I'd been well, I'd have been livid. As it was, I just went back to bed.

[homeschoolmom]

Ah, the joys of home ownership...

[Sojourner]

True, true. Of course, home ownership means you have to pay for all the repairs yourself, or learn how to be handy. Maybe in a few years ...

[homeschoolmom]

[quote]True, true. Of course, home ownership means you have to


pay for all the repairs yourself[/quote]




[quote] or learn how to be handy[/quote]

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Sep 20 2005, 09:17 PM']When I lived in Gas City (yes, that's the name of a real place)...
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Eh...I laugh more about Mingo, Iowa...

[b]Mingo[/b]-v. [i]Latin[/i]-I pee, urinate

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Sep 20 2005, 08:29 PM']Eh...I laugh more about Mingo, Iowa...

[b]Mingo[/b]-v.  [i]Latin[/i]-I pee, urinate
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[azaelia]

[quote name='Raphael' date='Sep 20 2005, 09:29 PM']Eh...I laugh more about Mingo, Iowa...

[b]Mingo[/b]-v.  [i]Latin[/i]-I pee, urinate
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[Sojourner]

We have a town like that -- Peru -- which the natives pronounce "pee-roo."

We Hoosiers mispronounce lots of place names.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

On the way to Birgitta's house, you pass the town of Kickapoo...hehehe...

[Sojourner]

I like Kissimee, Fla.

And I've always wanted to live in Wallawalla, Wash., or anywhere in Saskatchewan for a few months just to have that as my address.

[missionseeker]

Here we have the Pea river. It runs into the Yellow river.

In Alabama there's also
Cowpens
Choccolocco
Chunennegee
Chepultepec
Crudup and
Coffee County, Coffeville, Coffee Srings, and Coffeeville Landings. Bunches of places w/Indian names