How It Ended With 9am
So I went to Mexico for the wedding of Golden Boy to Crazy Girl. 9am asked if while I was gone he could have people over to see the apartment, including my bedroom, and he would try to get two people to take over our lease. As in sub-lease. Which we're not allowed to do. Which I said yes to anyway.
When I got home from Mexico, I didn't have any e-mails or voicemails from 9am. I had no idea what the results were of 9am's quest to replace us. Which, by the way, he'd been confident he could do. Before I even left he'd found a guy to take over his portion of the lease, and that guy said he had a friend who would almost definitely take over my portion (which I doubted).
Last Monday I was able to talk to 9am. Apparently he'd had a long talk with the manager of the leasing office, and had found out all the things I'd told him the week prior, which he'd ignored and refused to believe. He asked me if I was definitely moving out. I told him that like I'd informed him back on April 14th, yes, I was still moving out. He told me he was moving out on Wednesday. Two days from when we were talking. This was a change from what he'd previously said, but I'd gotten so used to him changing things on me related to our living situation that I didn't even blink at it.
So last Wednesday 9am's uncle came over and helped him to move out. Weeks earlier I'd given him a checklist of things that needed to be done before we moved out related to cleaning the apartment. 9am ignored it, and simply cleaned the sink, two counters, and emptied out the (my) toaster. He left all his food in the fridge and freezer. 9am tried to tell me to take his frying pan that he bought months earlier (to replace my frying pan that he'd ruined).
I hated his frying pan. It was heavy, which I don't like, too big in diameter, took a long time to heat, and I could never get my scrambled eggs to come out correctly using it. I graciously told 9am he bought it, and he should take it. He told me no, he bought it to replace mine, so I should keep it. I said no, that was okay, he should take it. 9am urged me to reconsider, telling me it was very expensive. Thing is, I'm not that kind of girl - I won't simply like something just because it costs a lot.
I told 9am that I was planning to buy a new frying pan because his didn't work for me, but thank you, so he should really take it. 9am was completely shocked. Ultimately he took his frying pan and left.
On Friday when my friend was at my house packing, I showed her all the food 9am left. The meat and pasta in the freezer. Guess what she ate for dinner?
Saturday was my moving day. While the movers were over, while my friends were over, 9am walked through the front door. He proceeded to stand around watching what was going on. This pissed me off, so I ignored him after saying hello. My friend was more direct, and said to 9am, "I thought you moved out?" He was flustered and did some more standing around watching. This practice of his drives me nuts. Once while I was telling a friend all about an experience I'd had, 9am stood in the hallway watching and listening. Wait, let me make that more clear - 9am, wearing his jacket and holding his keys, on his way OUT when my friend came IN, stood there, listening to us talking. I even passively-aggressively turned to him and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, did you need me for something?" to which he replied "no," and continued standing guard against the wall in the front hallway.
So now, on moving day in response to my friend, 9am mumbled something about having left a few things and got told we thought he'd moved out a couple of days earlier, so my friend had taken his half roll of toilet paper home with her.
I believe it was the same day I moved out that 9am gave his keys to the front office, and that's the last I saw of him. 9am emailed me his work address, asking me to mail his security deposit back to him there. I do not think he realizes that since he didn't clean most of the apartment, he won't get the majority of it back, since I will split the cost of the cleaning with 9am's security deposit.
When I got home from Mexico, I didn't have any e-mails or voicemails from 9am. I had no idea what the results were of 9am's quest to replace us. Which, by the way, he'd been confident he could do. Before I even left he'd found a guy to take over his portion of the lease, and that guy said he had a friend who would almost definitely take over my portion (which I doubted).
Last Monday I was able to talk to 9am. Apparently he'd had a long talk with the manager of the leasing office, and had found out all the things I'd told him the week prior, which he'd ignored and refused to believe. He asked me if I was definitely moving out. I told him that like I'd informed him back on April 14th, yes, I was still moving out. He told me he was moving out on Wednesday. Two days from when we were talking. This was a change from what he'd previously said, but I'd gotten so used to him changing things on me related to our living situation that I didn't even blink at it.
So last Wednesday 9am's uncle came over and helped him to move out. Weeks earlier I'd given him a checklist of things that needed to be done before we moved out related to cleaning the apartment. 9am ignored it, and simply cleaned the sink, two counters, and emptied out the (my) toaster. He left all his food in the fridge and freezer. 9am tried to tell me to take his frying pan that he bought months earlier (to replace my frying pan that he'd ruined).
I hated his frying pan. It was heavy, which I don't like, too big in diameter, took a long time to heat, and I could never get my scrambled eggs to come out correctly using it. I graciously told 9am he bought it, and he should take it. He told me no, he bought it to replace mine, so I should keep it. I said no, that was okay, he should take it. 9am urged me to reconsider, telling me it was very expensive. Thing is, I'm not that kind of girl - I won't simply like something just because it costs a lot.
I told 9am that I was planning to buy a new frying pan because his didn't work for me, but thank you, so he should really take it. 9am was completely shocked. Ultimately he took his frying pan and left.
On Friday when my friend was at my house packing, I showed her all the food 9am left. The meat and pasta in the freezer. Guess what she ate for dinner?
Saturday was my moving day. While the movers were over, while my friends were over, 9am walked through the front door. He proceeded to stand around watching what was going on. This pissed me off, so I ignored him after saying hello. My friend was more direct, and said to 9am, "I thought you moved out?" He was flustered and did some more standing around watching. This practice of his drives me nuts. Once while I was telling a friend all about an experience I'd had, 9am stood in the hallway watching and listening. Wait, let me make that more clear - 9am, wearing his jacket and holding his keys, on his way OUT when my friend came IN, stood there, listening to us talking. I even passively-aggressively turned to him and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, did you need me for something?" to which he replied "no," and continued standing guard against the wall in the front hallway.
So now, on moving day in response to my friend, 9am mumbled something about having left a few things and got told we thought he'd moved out a couple of days earlier, so my friend had taken his half roll of toilet paper home with her.
I believe it was the same day I moved out that 9am gave his keys to the front office, and that's the last I saw of him. 9am emailed me his work address, asking me to mail his security deposit back to him there. I do not think he realizes that since he didn't clean most of the apartment, he won't get the majority of it back, since I will split the cost of the cleaning with 9am's security deposit.
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posted by Green at 5/07/2009 10:32:00 PM
8 Comments:
9am sounds like your typical douche bag lawyer. Good riddance. Hopefully, you'll never see him again...
I hate people like that. People who just hang around, evesdropping - despite the fact that they know that other person knows.
Um. He doesn't get his security deposit since he did not give you proper notice and.. uh, since he did not clean out his shit.
If you think you're going to be nice and fair about it and send him any portion of the security deposit, just think about it as a valuable lesson he NEEDS to learn. You will be doing him a favor. Really.
As a chemistry student...it really pisses me off that he has a degree in chemistry, with the amount of cleaning that we have to do in every lab, putting things away, wash all dishes that are used, etc. I find his behavior hard to believe, specially since you have been so nice to him. Do him a favor and don't give him his deposit back, like Mama Nabi said, he broke the rules of your lease, he doesn't get anything back!
Good luck with the new roommate!
I can't believe he is a lawyer. I guess you can chalk it up to youth- I notice the some "kids" I am in the graduate program with are just as clueless.
Hi,Green, been reading your blog for a couple of years now. I've worked in a few small law firms, worked at a courthouse and then worked for a city in the City Attorney's Office. I was able to get out of the legal business last September (don't know how long it will last but it's a relief, I really can't stand working for lawyers). Going to college part-time so maybe I can avoid lawyers altogether in the future.
The reason for my note is: I swear, lawyers are born, then educated. The lawyer my age in the City sounds just like 9am. They don't change...they just get older and weirder.
So tell us about your new 'hood!
Well, people. Why not give 9am a break here? Why should he not get his security deposit - or at least some parts of it - back? Because he did not clean stuff? How much does this cleaning cost? How much was the deposit? AND I would be - well - dissatisfied if I had bought an expensive replacement pan and learned just now that the person I bought it for hated it. I am quite sure he really wanted to do a good thing by leaving the pan behind, so I don't really see the point in mocking him for it.
Finally: The standing around part is strange, indeed. That he apparently forgot some things when he "officially" moved out and wanted to check whether they were still there (and I am quite convinced that it was more than half a roll of toilet paper), is just human, IMHO.
Anyway, sorry for not patronising all that much, I still enjoy reading here.
I think it's totally reasonable to hold back part of his deposit against the cleaning he didn't do, and I also think it's reasonable to give him the rest back.
At least you won't have to endure him standing around watching you any more. That would drive me INSANE.
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