renegadeRICEcracker

my building manager

some of you are already well-acquainted with my friendly, intrusive, talkative, boundary-less building manager. he is a nice man, but amazingly OCD. i would include the little story about the one time mimi borrowed his key to my place and said she would return it by 10am the next morning, and i got 4 messages that night, a visit from him at night, and 4 messages the next morning leading up to 10am (both on my home and cell phones), during which time he said he NEVER should have given her the key because he NEEDS them, and then a follow-up call at 10:05 to let me know that she returned it, so it was okay now and i didn't have to be concerned anymore, but it would take too long).

i received this note on my front door on 3/31/05 (he leaves notes the day before rent is due and whenever your mailbox is too full, in which case he usually also checks it for you and puts it in your apartment for you):

"-- [landlord] came today, he put back the 4 on 104 [because it fell off]. he noticed you have not cashed his refund check of $12 dated 1/9/05 -- please cash it as soon as possible.

-- could you place your rent checks due 4/1/05 [i have 2, because i'm renting an extra parking space] in my mailbox tomorrow morning friday 4/1/05.

-- sunday nite 4/3/05 set your clock ahead 1 hour - daylite savings time."

[building manager name] [building manager apartment number]

the next day i received this message on my answering machine:
"yeah hi connie, this is [building manager] in, uh, [building manager's apartment number], it's saturday night. ahem. yeah, uh the other day when i left a, uh, the, uh, note on your door, i gave you the wrong information regarding the daylight saving time. uh daylight saving time is- is this sunday, um, its uh december 3. no, uh, uh, uh let me start over, is this sunday, uh, ap- april 3, okay, and the, uh, and you have to set your uh- your clocks a- ahead one hour, but you do that on saturday night before you go to bed, not- not sunday night, but saturday night. so right now its april 2, so when you- when you go to bed tonight and you set your clock ahead one hour uh so that uh starting tomorrow on uh april, uh, april 3, that, uh, the, uh, you have the new time there. but um, i thought i'd correct that. because the note i sent- you should set your clock ahead by one hour sunday night, but you should do it on saturday night, before- before sunday. yeah. yeah, okay, thank you."