Posted: Jun 17, 2008, 12:56 AM CST
I don't know if it's the best... but it's got all the makings of one of the coolest.
Today was hard. I haven't had a shower and the AC has been out. It was a day too hot to sleep & full of construction trucks & drilling noises. Both my AC & my water main were broken. Most landlords let sleeping dogs lie until the last possible second... but not mine. He's a human. He drove out & spent the whole day with me, as if to make sure I wasn't suffering alone. He even offered to buy me a hotel room for the night but I have two sick kitties right now & can't drag them into a foreign environment. So, what did he do? Everything he could. He got every workman jumping & even managed to somehow get the city water dept to send out a crew to deal with the water issue pronto.
Here it is quarter til 2am & I now have AC, running water, chicken in my tummy(he bought me food) and a case of spring water to drink... all to make sure I was comfortable. Now all this is pretty impressive, granted... but there's one more thing my land lord did to make up for all the drama...
He knew that I had wanted hard wood floors when I moved in. The floors in my place are... well, crap. The carpets suck & the wooden floors underneath were destroyed years ago. I had offered to split the cost of installing a new floor but I couldn't afford to even split the bill so it never got done. I had an interesting design in mind & doodled what the room would look like. The LL saw my doodle & we got talking about it. Well, he has outdone himself... he has just offered to foot the entire bill as a little peace offering for all the trouble I had to go through today.
...ummm... wow...