"Time Warner Cable (road runner) lends you a cable modem when you sign up. you must return it to officially cancel your service. I left Ithaca before my roomates, and they asked if i could leave it on until they left. I said (with caution) that it was okay if my roomate promised to return the modem, and the other promised to mail me my hub.
Needless to say, neither of these things happened.
The hub isn't the end of the world, but annoying. the modem is. Because I just got a $115 bill from TWC for the past 2 months, including late charges. So I'm pissed. But that isn't the reason for this rant.
So I hope my roomate pays me the $115 (if we can't get the charges taken away). I haven't heard from her yet. She might be ameanable to that. But I was thinking about worst case scenarios. I could go to Ithaca and demand the money. I thought about taking her laptop until she paid, but my sister told me that was illegal and would result in a restraining order probably.
Then I had a stroke of brilliance! I never paid security on the apartment! My 3 roomates did. That gives me leverage. I can threaten to DESTROY the apartment, robbing my roomates of their $500 in security. It would be way cheaper for them to pay me. AND I wouldn't have done anything illegal. It isn't a crime to mess up your own apartment. That's why you pay security. A bucket of red paint on the carpet and a fridge through the window could look like an accident even!
But here's the part that gets me, and the reason for this rant: the person who hurts the most in that scenario is the poor apartment complex, who is faced with $1500 worth of damage to repair. Granted they'll get the money to cover it, but it is still horrible for them to deal with. Hiring contract labor, new fridge shipments, etc etc. And most likely I won't be able to stop at exactly $1500, leaving them to foot the difference.
So I thought, what if I went and told them my plan. That way, they wouldn't have to deal with all the repairs. I figured that is the gentleman thing to do. Why should they suffer? Here is my offer: I won't destroy their apartment, AND they can keep 1.5 large! That's win win for them! But not so. That plan would never work! They wouldn't do it. I can't even imagine the response I'd get for mentioning that! It would never work. The only way to actually do it is to friggin put a hammer through the shower wall! And that's what is pissing me off.
Nice guys always finish last."
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