THE SAGA CONTINUES

Because the shower leaked into the bedroom and stained the carpet in the closet/vanity area AGAIN, I decided to try out the new online maintanence requests. It was like 5 in the afternoon. Not an hour later, the off-duty maintanence guy shows up in plain clothes to see about my shower. I'm a little confused at the speediness, so I ask him if they said it was an emergency (it's been leaking for months now, this is the 2nd request) and he says that they just called him in to look at an emergency leak. I apologize and show him the problem (again). Whatever, they come back the next morning to fix it, we don't use that shower for all of last week, the carpet dries out.

They finally kinda fixed the leak by caulking the hell out of the shower. The didn't caulk where B and I suspect the water is leaking out of (which I pointed out to the maintenance guy, but I'm a girl, what do I know), and since they didn't actually remove the old dried up caulk or even clean the surface first before re-caulking, I'm sure we'll be back to square one in a few weeks...B says we can remedy the situation by just turning the shower nozzle towards the wall, but I feel it simply shouldn't leak, no matter where the nozzle points.

Yesterday, 2 different maintenance guys show up to 'fix the leak in the shower'. Confused again, I tell them that they already fixed it, but they look at it again anyway. I asked them if they can check for mold in the carpet and try to remove the stains in the carpet as I am VERY sensitive to airborne irritants, and well, that's where we sleep. It REALLY smells, even after repeated cleanings of the bathroom.

So the carpet guys show up out of the blue today, telling me that they are here to 'dry out the carpet'. I say it's been dry for a week now, but it's pretty stained. Okay. They'll take the stain out. I ask them if they need me to move anything, they say no. Five minutes later they leave me with a still stained, newly damp carpet that smells like lemon murphy's oil soap cleaner (gag) and a GIANT fan that they say must be run for the next 2 days.

They also moved all of the stuff I asked about without me. (don't TOUCH MY CRAP!) I now cannot get to the bathroom without setting up a basecamp at the bottom of the fan. It's also going to be a bit like sleeping in a wind tunnel at NASA. If that crap makes my clothes smell like lemon fruit loops I'mma be 75 kinds of pissed off.

Arrgh. Now my nose is burning a little and my migraine is getting worse...