Very funny…
A woman left a note in the door of my duplex. She thinks it is cute and wants to rent it. The note was written on a scrap torn from a cigarette package. I laughed out loud and saved it.
I don’t think so, Pamela. I don’t rent to smokers.
Smoking involves a certain level of detachment from reality and most smokers I know think they are in good health, not addicts, entitled and special. If you consider the propensity for incremental suicide, stinking clothes and breath and wasting time, for starters, then I agree they are special. In addition to being special you can add the constant litter and active porch junkie addict mentality and so on. I worked in a high-rise office and in the course of an average day the smokers from one office spent up to 1.5 hours a day tending to their addiction. I seriously doubt this time is factored into their flex day. Here it is at least three times a day: round up the fellow junkies for the elevator ride down, walk over to the elevator in the parking garage and go up to the designated smoking area, smoke a cigarette (why not two, it took so-ooo much effort to get here and I deserve it because I’m special), finish the smoke, talk, ride the elevator down in the parking garage, take the elevator back up to the office and commiserate about the suffering you must endure as a smoker (I had to listen to one of these pathetic whining conversations on the elevator)… Poor things.
The standards/target market for the duplex is long term renter with professional background, my comfort and resale. Like the last multi-unit property I was involved with at any given moment I will be an occupant in any one of the units so there is a base level of comfort, efficiency and ease of maintenance included in all remodels. I have detail drawings of new built-in cabinetry including breakfast nook/booth, storage/shelving, bookcases and entertainment center. The damn thing is I’m still in LA and there is no time off from July 6 thru Aug 15. Want to trade jobs?? Actually, my eyes are wide open and have been since August ‘07 and I made a personal commitment last fall to finish this project regardless (unlike some). A lot is going to happen in the next 4 weeks.
The other day I watched the rain roll in while releasing a ghost and trimming loose ends (beneficiary changes, threw away a Continental Airline voucher from an aborted trip last August and sent a memoriam to a foreign land).
Mars out.
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