Close Yours (Now With An Exciting Update!)
Do you smoke? You do? Then I hate you. Really. For like the fourth time, this afternoon I went to the leasing office to ask if they could do anything about the smoke literally pouring into my apartment, flooding my bedroom and bathroom (it comes through the bathroom vent) with smoke.
It makes my clothes smell bad. It makes my eyes burn. It makes my throat hurt. IT'S NOT FAIR.
A person should be able to get away from things like second-hand smoke by going into their own home. I don't do things that attract the attention of any neighbors when I'm inside my home. No loud music. No bad-smelling foods get cooked. No random bouncing of balls in the middle of the night (13th floor, I'm talking to you). No construction at random times of the day. No thumping base turned all the way up at 6:16 a.m.
No. I hold the elevator for people, I ask where their parents are when toddlers come running towards the pool without any adult-looking people running behind them, I don't throw garbage off my balcony. I am a good neighbor, a good tenant.
Some people say things like, "If you don't like it, buy your own place." Those people are assholes, who probably are as inconsiderate as my neighbors. I understand that smokers get dirty looks all the time when they try to smoke in public, and want to think they should have the right to smoke in their own place. And that's almost logical. Except when it's affecting others, which, in this case, IT IS. Why can't they go smoke on their balconies, so the smoke doesn't get sucked into their vents and come out of mine?
The leasing office suggested they can close the vent in my apartment, blocking the smoke from coming in. But tomorrow when they get here, I think I'll ask them to close the vent in the apartment rented by the smokers instead.
It makes my clothes smell bad. It makes my eyes burn. It makes my throat hurt. IT'S NOT FAIR.
A person should be able to get away from things like second-hand smoke by going into their own home. I don't do things that attract the attention of any neighbors when I'm inside my home. No loud music. No bad-smelling foods get cooked. No random bouncing of balls in the middle of the night (13th floor, I'm talking to you). No construction at random times of the day. No thumping base turned all the way up at 6:16 a.m.
No. I hold the elevator for people, I ask where their parents are when toddlers come running towards the pool without any adult-looking people running behind them, I don't throw garbage off my balcony. I am a good neighbor, a good tenant.
Some people say things like, "If you don't like it, buy your own place." Those people are assholes, who probably are as inconsiderate as my neighbors. I understand that smokers get dirty looks all the time when they try to smoke in public, and want to think they should have the right to smoke in their own place. And that's almost logical. Except when it's affecting others, which, in this case, IT IS. Why can't they go smoke on their balconies, so the smoke doesn't get sucked into their vents and come out of mine?
The leasing office suggested they can close the vent in my apartment, blocking the smoke from coming in. But tomorrow when they get here, I think I'll ask them to close the vent in the apartment rented by the smokers instead.
Aforementioned Exciting Update: This afternoon I went
back to the leasing office to follow up and the office manager offered to come
over to my apartment "right now" to check out the smoke situation. As we
walked she expressed hope that I was happy with everything else, and I took that
opportunity to mention the draft situation of yore. When we exited the elevator on my floor, the office manager wrinkled her nose, told me she had a cold, and announced that the hallway STANK of smoke. When we went into my apartment she smelled it. Standing in my bedroom, she looked at my polka-dot blanket and
nodded. I feel so vindicated.
The smoking issue is aggressively being worked on. I also pointed out to her how the blinds move from the drafts even when the windows are closed. The office manager
was horrified on my behalf, and will have people here on Monday. That's what I'm talking about!
posted by Green at 10/04/2007 11:16:00 PM
5 Comments:
I have a friend in Chicago going through this exact same thing except he bought his place, so there's no landlord to complain to- the management company just keeps telling him, "well, they own their place, they can do with it what they want." Not when it's affecting your ability to enjoy your place they can't! I like your "close theirs" idea.
Is this a vent with a fan? Would leaving it on help? Or is this a heater vent that is shared? Inquiring minds want to know.
It's shared. I feel like leaving it on would blow even more smoke into my apartment.
I am sorry for the actions of my fellow smokers! ; ) My hubby and I both smoke but we do not smoke in our OWN house!! Funny, huh?! I don't want my clothes to smell like it any more than they do, I can't smell it when I eat food or I'm nauseated. You'd think I'd just wisen up and quit. Hopefully soon!
Second hand smoke fucking sucks. I'm highly allergic and so any time I am inflicted with it when I shoudn't be, I get pisssssssssed. Going to a club, I know I'm in for it and take my chances.
I appreciate it so much when people who smoke are considerate of how their cigarette smoke affects others.
My nose is so sensitive, that if the person in front of me at a stoplight is smoking and has that cig in hand out the window, the air intake brings it into my car and therefore invades my space. Ick.
I hope you find resolution to this nastiness soon.
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