now only dust mites inhabit my digs
Friday 3rd April
were i a lawyer i'd find ways of having T pay for all the phone calls & texts inwhich L has had to say: PAY YOUR RENT, deusch bag!! YOU'RE WEEKS OVERDUE!
After 18.00 sometime
Ring ring
Tenant: Hi.
LandLady: Hi, it’s LandLady.
T: Ramble ramble.
L: Hey, you still haven’t paid rent. When are you planning on doing it?
T: Ramble. My girlfriend was going to do it from work. I will call her now and have her do it. Ramble.
L: Okay. Bye.
T: Bye.
Click
No money is deposited into LandLady’s account.
A couple of hours later
Ring ring
T: Hello.
L: Your girlfriend still hasn’t paid rent.
T: Babble. I will ring her now and have her do it. Babble.
L: Okay. We also need to talk about when I can get the keys tomorrow.
T: Yeah, anytime really, we’ve got someone cleaning the flat right now. Babble.
L: Good, I will call you then tomorrow morning and we will arrange to meet soon after that.
T: Okay babble babble.
L: Okay, bye.
Click
No money is deposited into LandLady’s account.
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Saturday 4th April
10.45ish
Ring ring, no response on T’s end
12.13
LandLady’s phone goes Ring ring
L: Hello, Tenant.
T: Hello, rattle rattle.
L: When can I get my keys?
T: Anytime really, I am at work and you can get them here anytime.
L: Okay good. Your gf didn’t pay rent yesterday.
T: She didn’t have the authentication key (local bank security thingy) so she couldn’t. Payment will come. Soon. It’s right on its way.
L: You said you were going to pay before the week ended. The week has ended, the working week that is, yesterday.
L: Random talk. Payment will come, soon. Random talk.
L: I won’t come to get the keys immediately, but soon, alright? And I need to get paid NOW!
T: Payment is coming, I promise. Aimless talk.
L: Bye.
T: Bye.
Click
No money is deposited into LandLady’s account.
A few hours after
Ring ring
T: Hello?
the army of dustmites which greeted me at my flat.
L: Hi, it’s LandLady.
T: Blather blather.
L: You still haven’t paid your rent. What’s up with that?
T: I will get on it right away. I’ll call my gf. We were up til 2am cleaning the flat, it’s spick and span, ready for you to take over. Blather blather.
L: Alright. I will come soon for the keys. Pay, alright?
T: Okay, blather, see you.
L: Bye.
Click
No money is deposited into LandLady’s account.
17.30 same day
LandLady goes to Tenant’s place of work to find him gone. At last, LandLady loses her temper, for the first time for real during this Rentodrama. She tries to keep quiet but some words slip out in angry hues as she uses expletives in referring to T, the only proper way really, plus adding a few choice adjectives, and tells a friendly looking co-worker of T’s who appears out of nowhere that she feels for her having to work with him. The stunnded but helpful co-worker allows L to ring T.
T: Hello?
L: It’s LandLady …
T: Oh, hi … hey, can I call you in 2 minutes? I am busy …
L: NO!!! No, you will NOT call in me in 2 minutes. I am here at your place of work to get the keys. Where are you? Did it not occur to you to tell me when you’d be here when we talked earlier? I am here to get the keys, you know. Does it ever occur to you to keep me in the loop, as we talked about in earlier conversations?
T: Something came up, I had to go. The keys I left with my co-worker.
Co-worker produces keys after hearing L mention them. Later L discovers that T has only returned one set of keys. Unfuckingbelievable. Or is it?
L loses it for real and raises her voice: That is all well and good. I came her to talk to you. You still haven’t paid rent. You have told me 4 times since yesterday that rent was just around the corner. What is wrong with you? There is no way I can believe a word you say anymore.
T: The rent is coming. We will have to see abt that (in reference to L believing him). My gf couldn’t pay, she couldn’t access a computer and the internet.
L: Are you telling me that all day she thought about paying rent but couldn’t find one house or café (forgot to mention libraries where access is free) where to access the internet? She’s thought abt it all day, but couldn’t find ONE.PLACE.TO.GO!!????????
T: Rent will be paid, alright? It’s on its way.
L: I don’t believe you. You canNOT be trusted. I really hope that your new landlords somehow gets to know me and I have a chance to explain your true character to them. I have waited 5 weeks for this payment, you haven’t paid for March yet, and I am still waiting. You have lied to me more often than I can recount, telling me you are paying the rent you owe and then going back on your words, and the contracts you signed with me, over and over and over again. Month after month you haven’t paid rent on time, what is wrong with you? What is your problem? You have problems. I am more fed up than I am able to express right now. You never tell me the truth, you never explain what is going on with payments, you only lie!!!
T: Well, yeah, rent is on it’s way. Drivel drivel.
L: I ain’t going nowhere, I am waiting here for you, you will bring the rent in cash, now.
T in his most pseudo-genuine, pseudo-nice yet super-derogatory tone: I am not able to do that. Rent will be paid.
L: Goodbye.
Click
L waves a friendly goodbye to stunned co-workers.
No money is deposited into LandLady’s account.
L goes and purchases her fave fast food. She struggles to park and get out of the parking spot again, such is her anger. She is well pleased with herself for not showing it to the fast food staff.
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A few hours later L and her sister enter the messy flat. These people must have lived in abject horror and filth if they think they left the flat in a clean state. See pics – though not great, they show some dust, grease and grime. It’s everywhere, as is the smell of smoke. In the living room all 3 lightbulbs are bust; they don’t use light?
more than the usual numbers of these little guys at my flat currently. are there grease & grime mites, too? smoke mites?
I do understand lying on occasion. My fab knowledgable older sis even calls lying a fundamental survival technique, one we have to use on occasion.
Why, though, lie 4 times in less than 24 hrs, saying that rent will be paid, now? Why lie 3 times in less than 5 days about someone being hired to clean the flat, that someone was there cleaning the flat, and that he, the liar himself, had been up til 2am cleaning the flat, when NO ONE cleaned the fucking flat? The only place which wasn’t dusty, grimey or greasy were the kitchen drawers, for which we, being kind girls, actually gave them some credit: either these people, who obviously drank loads of beer and smoked and I assume use other types of drugs aswell (I am judging, yes judging, from their appearance and their common dysfunctional personality traits) all of which tends to make people less likely to consume much food, didn’t have any food in the kitchen drawers hence nothing to tidy up, or they hoovered the insides of them bc we found no evidence of rice or flour or spaghetti or biscuits or nothing there. Did find rice in the black box full of beer glasses, though!
I’m not that angry anymore. And I have moved my aversion in regards to types of people from white trash (as in uneducated smoking pregnant mothers) to the sociopaths of this world. That feels rewarding, as the former deserve my assistance and empathy. The latter deserve a kick in the groin. I am gleefully awaiting the opportunity …
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