Landlord Story Part 2
There was also the time when we had a suspected minor gas leak from the cooker just after Christmas, it turned out that the gas was escaping from one of the knobs on the cooker and the cooker needed a new knob, which he fixed very well actually, it was just the way he described the problem to his brother over the phone in order to get the part:

“I am in Superkitty’s Kitchen now there is a problem with the cooker and I am smelling the knobs, yes there is a smell coming form one of the knobs, Super kitty come here, can you smell the knob, it is this one yes?? Get a knob and bring it over so I can fix it!”.

I should mention that my landlord has a middle eastern accent, and this exchange was frankly hilarious. And maybe a bit dangerous as he was waving a cigar about at the time!

There are more, like the time the ceiling was leaking in the flat and I called him to tell him of this thinking that, hey this is a top floor flat he might want to check on this as the roof could be fucked! But no his advice was “Have you got a pan or a bowl? Well put that under the leak that will take care of it”.

The fact that the window ledge in the living room was rotten so instead of replacing the window frames he just built a new frame and rested it inside the window to hide the evidence, unfortunately this meant that the window was un openable and the flat was like a sauna all summer until we ripped it out ourselves in desperation.

I am sure I will think of lots more examples when I get home and have a look around as he is still my landlord, but I am in another flat now!
(superkitty is neither super nor a kitty, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)