Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!!

I am so flipping ticked off. The apartment complex where we live has been doing renovations for the last 3 months or so. It does look nice, however we have been bombarded with these little notices that they leave all rolled up in a little scroll on our door. These little scrolls are to inform us that they will be cutting down our trees, gaining access to our back porch to break our tomato plant, un-plugging our freezer so that they can forget to plug it back in and leaving all of our meat to defrost in over 100 degree heat and the list of disturbances could continue, but I am sure you get the picture. So now on to the most current problem we are having with our lovely management. Apparently, notices were left in a scroll on our door on the previous Friday to inform us that they would be re-sealing our parking lot today beginning at 7:00 this morning. I honestly did not receive this particular scroll. I had today off. I awoke to someone knocking on my door before 8:00 a.m. By the time I got downstairs to answer the door there was no one there. I did see them cleaning our parking lot with the blowers though. I got a cup of coffee and about an hour later I heard something rather loud and rumbling outside. I walked to the kitchen and looked out my window to see that there were no cars in the parking lot. I ran out to talk to one of the workmen and he said cars were being towed and that notices had been put on the columns in the parking area informing us that we needed to have our cars removed by 7:00 a.m. or they would be towed at owners expense. I immediately got on the phone with the manager of our complex. I asked her what right she had to have my car towed. Her reply was that the notices were hung yesterday. When asked at what time they were hung, she said that it was between 6:15 and around 8:00 last night. I told her that I was home from work before then and never saw the bright gold notices posted on the columns at such a late time. I also told her that I had never received a rolled up scroll the previous Friday. It was then with great passion that I told her that I would refuse to pay that bill for having my car towed and I swore to her with all that was holy that she would be the one to pay for having my car towed. I then asked where they had our vehicles towed to, she replied that they were out on the main road outside of our complex. I went and located my car.

It is apparent to me that they have not handled this situation properly. Had I known that my car was going to be towed if left in my personal parking lot, I would have moved my car. I was not the only one to have my vehicle towed, there were many. I would suspect that most of us residents living here in this complex are responsible mature adults, who when asked to remove their cars for re-sealing of the parking lot on a particular date, would have been only too happy to oblige. The mere fact that so many vehicles had to be towed, only reiterates to me that the only notice ever given was the one posted on the columns after most of us unsuspecting residents had come home from our workday.

Well, I guess I just needed to vent. Sometimes writing about something just purges the frustration of daily life.