Month: September 2009
Stop screwing with me, Gas Monkey…
You know what is worse than waking up to a water-heater that refuses to work when you go for your morning shower?
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Having the fucking thing finally work, after you finished taking your cold shower.
There’s a poltergeist in my house, and it has a really stupid sense of humour.
Evicting the previous tenants…
My new apartment comes equipped with a pigeon coop: fresh pigeon eggs for breakfast every morning, straight from my balcony…
Note to the genius realtors who spruced-up the place before I moved in: enclosing the entire balcony in a metallic net to protect it from these flying rats, was a very good idea with laudable intent.
It would have been considerably more effective, had it not resulted in trapping an entire pigeon family on my balcony, inside that net.
When everything else has failed…
An apparently distraught software project manager, turning to the gods of Meiji-Jingu with a slightly unorthodox ema request…