Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Squishiest Carpet I've ever had


I had a wonderful experience this morning. I awoke to the beautiful sound of rushing water. This was so refreshing until I found that my defective apartment had once again led to major disaster.

The soothing sound was none other than that of the small, yet strong fresh water hose leading into the back of the toilet reserve tank in the empty room opposite mine. I quickly sloshed through the living room ad bedroom to the bathroom to get sprayed with water (thankfully clean), in the face. I reattached the hose and went to get clean laundry from my laundry bag in my closet.

Sidenote: this next occurrence is very typical of my stay at Coventry apartments... it gets worse.

I go into my closet to find that atrociously familiar "squish, squish." My toilet had leaked under the wall of the bathroom into my closet. Not the clean water either. I quickly washed my feet threw on sandals and squished back in to save my newly washed clothes. The clean untouched clothes on the bed, the tainted clothes back to the laundry. I then pulled my paper missionary planners from 2/3's of my mission from the floor to find them soaked completely through. (They had been stacked nicely in the corner to stay safe.)

I call my apartment manager, who is out of town. He calls maintenence who is going to get there in 7 or 8 hours. I leave to take care of my things. 10 hours later i get a text saying that the maintenance is held up they won't come till tomorrow. They come and say there is a leaky seal, and that they will be back later. I stay out of my closet and wait for maintenance to clean or replace the carpet; they never do. I call the manager tell him about the very pungent mildew smell and ask he get it clean or replaced. He called me, from the inside of my apartment, and said he smelled nothing and that I needed to just buy a fan and blow air on it till it dried. As he left my apartment he informed me that my apartment was filthy (rememberme throwing my clothes everywhere) and he would be coming back to inspect my apartment this week.