My new home . . .
I have been living in a REALLY nice apartment for the last eight months paid for by the company. Call it a perk for being relocated to a tropical shithole. The place is brand new, never been lived in, new furniture, etc. It even has four bathrooms. What? Four bathrooms you say? What on earth do you need four bathrooms for? Well, there´s one in each of two bedrooms, one in the living room area, and one in the laundry room for the maid. Yes, the maid. She comes once a week and she is one of my favorite people in the world.
But alas, it is no more. In mid-June I walked into my co-worker`s office and happened to read a letter that was sitting on his desk. I read as much as "we, the tenants of apartments 3A and 3B will be vacating as of July 1st" before realizing what was actually happening. My co-worker purchased a house and was moving out of the apartment next to mine. This I understood. I also understood that I had a flight moving my ass home to MN set up for July 15th. So, who is the mastermind that decided that I don´t need a place to live for two weeks? Here is his inner monologue:
"Huh. One months rent is more expensive than 15 nights in the hotel down the street. We´ll just move her there."
Had he actually said this to me I would have responded:
"Remember that I told you that my little brother is here until July 7th, so the hotel fee will be double occupancy for a week. Remember that I have a cat that cannot stay at said hotel. Remember that if you move me into a hotel you´ll have to pay for my food and laundry service."
At which point he would have said:
"Sheesh, it would cost the same to keep you in your apartment so we might as well do that. You don´t want to stay in that shitty hotel, do you?"
And I would have replied:
"Hell no. That hotel is ASS shitty."
More on the shitty hotel later . . .
But alas, it is no more. In mid-June I walked into my co-worker`s office and happened to read a letter that was sitting on his desk. I read as much as "we, the tenants of apartments 3A and 3B will be vacating as of July 1st" before realizing what was actually happening. My co-worker purchased a house and was moving out of the apartment next to mine. This I understood. I also understood that I had a flight moving my ass home to MN set up for July 15th. So, who is the mastermind that decided that I don´t need a place to live for two weeks? Here is his inner monologue:
"Huh. One months rent is more expensive than 15 nights in the hotel down the street. We´ll just move her there."
Had he actually said this to me I would have responded:
"Remember that I told you that my little brother is here until July 7th, so the hotel fee will be double occupancy for a week. Remember that I have a cat that cannot stay at said hotel. Remember that if you move me into a hotel you´ll have to pay for my food and laundry service."
At which point he would have said:
"Sheesh, it would cost the same to keep you in your apartment so we might as well do that. You don´t want to stay in that shitty hotel, do you?"
And I would have replied:
"Hell no. That hotel is ASS shitty."
More on the shitty hotel later . . .