Monday, July 23, 2007

"What's a sewage bill?"

Maybe Jilly can back me up, but most of the time being a landlord sucks out the ass. I showed the house yesterday to a woman. She was very overweight, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but she only could take five steps before she had to sit down. The house is empty so she sat on the fireplace ledge.

She brought with her Marilyn Manson. Well, I thought it was Marilyn Manson but I found out that it was her son. “He’s not goth,” she told me twice. “He goes to church.”
I asked who would be living in the house. Well: her, her 17 yr old son (Marilyn), her 19 yr old son and her dog and a cat. Uuh, no. This is a two-bedroom bungalow. Here is what else I learned in the twenty minutes I spent with her:

1. She doesn’t think kids are adults until the age of 20 “It’s eighTEEN. It’s nineTEEN.”
2. She has to have the air on at 60 degrees because she gets hot.
3. The doctor warned her not to have more kids after the first one because she has “back problems.”
4. She didn’t know the difference between gas and electricity”
5. She didn’t know what a sewage bill was.
6. The place she lives in now has a mold problem and “the board of health didn’t do anything about it.”
7. She likes the kitchen island.
8. She goes to three different churches.
9. Her mother will visit a lot.
10. She brought her son with her “for protection.”
11. Apparently all her son knows how to do is to stare at his shoes.
12. She was worried that she wouldn’t fit in the bathtub.
13. She didn’t want me to contact her existing landlord.
14. She told her two sons, “If you live with me until you’re 20, and mind me, you can do whatever you want with your body.”
15. She liked the big bedroom.

Need I say more?

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

yikes!

schell said...

Did she like to drink a lot of tea?

Anonymous said...

Oy. - blu

Jenny Robin said...

good laugh

UrbanStarGazer said...

Scaaaaary but, nice that she didn't know better than to be honest.

Bert Bananas said...

Need you say more? You mean besides, "NO!"?

Clank Napper said...

She was gonna turn your house into a house of burlesque. For men with Fat Fetishes.

Emma....you could be a madam! What a fab new career move. I think I might change my job to that myself :oD

P.S. Finished Harry Potter :o)

Anonymous said...

Oy vey.

Orbie/\;;/\ said...

so we will not be having any jolly stories of fire rescues from bathtubs and unusual body piercings?

damn damn damn your conventional mind and good sense!

Anonymous said...

I'm still laughing, thanks for sharing. That lady is the type of customer Sprint tosses out for calling too much to bitch about nothing. Also, how bad do you have to sin to need to go to 3 different churches?

The last three people who looked at my rental place said "you don't have to run a credit check...." i smiled sweetly and said "yes, i do." and if i can't call the current landlord, then you can't move in.

I also pay for a background check. After the crazy convict on the run from the law criminal that my tenants moved in without my knowing that lead to great stress and legal issues, I don't take chances.

jilly

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Anonymous said...

That post made me feel like taking a shower. Lubee**

Waltzing Matilda said...
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Roger said...

Dear Ms. Emma -

I have the honor to represent one Marilyn Manson, a poor but honest entertainer, whom you have libeled by the above post. This is to call upon you to retract your libel or, in the alternative, to give Mr. Manson and his faithful retinue a rent-free home for the next sennight.

You don't have to call his current landlord, trust me.

Sincerely,
Larcen E. Pettifogger

Clank Napper said...

Hahahaha roger!

Anonymous said...

Did you ever see that crazy religious woman on Wife Swap? Either Wife Swap or the other wife swapping show. That woman was amazing. She would scream "gargoyles" at the mention of anything pagan. Said she was catholic.

This message has been brought to you by The Nagual.

Anonymous said...

emma, you've had to remove a lot of comments recently. i hope the plague upon you lets up.

jilly

Anonymous said...

Naggy,
That was Marguerite Perin and she was NOT Catholic---just CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!

and a big nutjob


-eema

Anonymous said...

This is the Nagual speaking:

No....I watched both shows that she was on because she was the absolute most insane religious person I had ever seen. In one of them she plainly said she was "Catholic".

There are a very few groups who use the name improperly but I've never heard of her being in one. Since I intend to one day be Pope I will research this.

Anonymous said...

This is The Nagual speaking.

Hmm....No real results. She has a "forum" and a websight but is rather cagey about her religion on it. Sometimes she is identified by others as "christian" "fundamentalist christian" or "catholic".

Some point out that on one of the shows she stipulated that the other family should by a "King James Bible" which is of course not a catholic bible.

Some say that she forced the pagan family to go to a catholic church because the pagan woman started out catholic before becoming a "unitarian universalist" before becoming a pagan.

Do you have a source that says she is not catholic?

Anonymous said...

Naggy,
She DID force the pagan family to go to a Catholic church to pray---but only because it was geographically convenient to their home.
She specifically stated words to the effect: "A Catholic church is better than nothing."
Marguerite is NOT Catholic...she's a fundie evangelical nutjob who saw Satan behind everything wrong in her life.

At the end of the program, each mom got to decide on how to split up the $50, 000 awarded to each family.

the pagan family wanted most of Margaurite's to go to the stomach stapling procedure she despararetly wanted to have. She blew a gasket about the whole experience and screamed that she didn't want ANY of the money BECAUSE IT WAS TAINTED!!!! She screamed and ordered the cameramen out of her house and she wanted nothing more to do with anything about the show.

The show rolled a little postscript stating that when all things were said and done, Marguerite DID in fact accept the money. (Big surprise) whether or not she had her stomach stapled remians to be seen.

A nutjob---But she did make for excellent tv.

Anonymous said...

Yes....she did do the stomach stapling. Then she did another episode of the same show where she was sent to live with a family of black racists. She was less insane in that show....even after you factor out how insane the black guy was.

But...How do you know that she took them to a catholic church because it was convenient to them?

On the internet the general concensus is that she is catholic....but as I said she herself is rather cagey about it.

Nagual