at deaths door
A few years back when i was living in England i worked for the electricity board. For various reasons i had to deal with local authorities to gain access to council properties. To be fair most councils were pretty good and sent a man round with a set of keys at the agreed time.

It was during one of these visits that i got the following story from a council maintance worker.

It seems that about a year previous a tennant had comitted suicide in his council flat. Nothing unusual there normal story, after a couple of weeks the neighbours complain about the smell enviromental health goes in and finds the rotting corpse.

This particular winner had killed himself by hanging himself over the back of the bedroom door. After a while he had sort of started to leak fluids.
The council cleared the flat ready for the next tennant HOWEVER
As the corpse had leaked the thin plywood door had absorbed his juices so there was a permant man shaped mark on it.

Given these circumstances any normal person would throw the door away but not the council. Instead they elected to paint over the door . Result a man shaped stain on back of door in semi gloss.

The stupid thing is that this council has its own joinery facilities to make doors , it would only have of cost them an extra 10 quid or so to do things properly.

In this qotw people are moaning about unnessecary expenditure but in this case who would begrudge it ?? Would you want to move into a flat with this sort of reminder of the previous tenant??

So Letchworth town council managment for being such tight arsed cunts I say fucking know it all wankers.
(welgar, Wed 1 Aug 2007, 8:49, Reply)