Grow up. You aren’t a special snowflake, and everyone doesn’t need to bow to your demands-I’m going to go out on a limb and say that he likely wasn’t polite or friendly when making the previous requests either. He doesn’t seem to understand that his needs, on mere merit of being HIS, don’t automatically trump the needs/wants of everyone else. Alan chose to live above a laundry room-if he is THAT sensitive to smells, be it because of allergies or just personal preference, then this was a pretty stupid move.

And just because you don’t like something does NOT give you the right to take other people’s things from a communal area. There are lots of things in my building that aren’t up to my own personal preferences-do I steal them or make unreasonable demands to my fellow tenants? Nope. I chalk it up to apartment living, which is what Alan needs to do. Either that or he needs to find a quiet cabin in the woods, where the smells of the world won’t impede his awesomeness and superiority.

I have nothing but sympathy for people with awful allergies-but I have no sympathy for Alan, or anyone else who thinks the world revolves around them. What a dick.

If you’re going to live over a laundry room, you’d better be ready for anything.

You’re suggesting that the one person who’d have the pick of all the apartments would choose to live over the laundry room?

Uh uh. A landlord who’d have Alan’s problems would choose an apartment as far from the laundry room as possible and foist the crappy cubicle off on someone else.

Finally! Oh, finally! How I’ve waited! How I’ve longed! The One! His name is Alan and he lives in an apartment over a laundry room! All hail the Great and Powerful ALAN, our lord and master!

He is the one person out of six billion around whom the world revolves.

And, surely, the world must revolve around a man who moves into an apartment above a laundry room even though he is sensitive to artificial fragrances and goes to bed early, and who utterly fails to anticipate that living above a laundry room might result in smell and noise, and yet who has the power to command all his neighbors to accommodate his personal preferences.

You do know that if the government wants to keep allergic kids out of public schools they have to provide the computers, microphones, headsets, internet service with tax dollars to the kids at home right? The parents would not be legally responsible to provide any of that. So that is still going to raise taxes a whole bunch and it really is not necessary for most food allergic kids. Only a very very very rare amount of kids are allergic to a point that just smelling peanuts could cause a reaction. My son is not that bad. He only reacts badly if it is on his skin or he eats it. Even if it gets on his skin he just gets a rash that while unpleasant is not going to kill him.

I have never tried to dictate what other people’s kids eat and I resent you say that about me since I am the EXACT opposite of that!!!! I have had moms tell me they didn’t want to let their kids eat their pb sandwich around my son and I told them they could no problem. Just wipe their sons’s hands off afterwards and not sit right next to him. They were surprised how cool I was about it!

There are plenty of places to work where he would have no contact with peanuts. Just not in food establishments like restaurants or factories but for anything else it would cause no problem. Just do like he does now. Bring his own food in. Wash off counters and tables before eating. Adults are better about washing their hands and being neat eaters than kids so no problem there. It would cause no problem to work in an office.

I can come up with lots more solutions to fit differing circumstances (euthanasia comes to mind, where’s the kid gonna work when he grows up? Or should every workplace now ban peanuts so your child can be employed? Euthanasia, disability check, or do you think he’ll likely telecommute if not self-employed?), but this oh wise one thinks he’s made his point that acceptable accommodations can be made for your child without adversely affecting the healthy by depriving them of what they’d normally enjoy (peanut products) were it not for the presence of your death-defying child.

I’d have thought that you above all else here would know that sometimes we have to accept that we cannot do everything all of the others do because of our particular health concerns. That we have to live in a society not necessarily designed to accommodate our every need because a large majority has other needs.
But I guess not.
We’re willing to give up a few parking spaces for you, so you think we should make our children give up foods they like because of your child as well?
Well, depriving our children of Snickers bars, Reece’s peanut butter cups, etc. isn’t the same as giving you a parking space.
My children were home-schooled, but we were by no means rich. We did what we had to do and made the necessary sacrifices to get that done. My girls are both college grads now.
Perhaps you may need to sacrifice a little for your child as well. No one said being a parent was supposed to be easy, and it’s not the government’s job to make it any much more easier for you if you happen to have to make some hard choices along the way such as telling your kid, “Hey, Little Fella, you’re too sickly to go to school with the other kids.”
But no, you’d rather teach your child that all of the other children should not have PB&J sandwiches because he’s more important than them having a sandwich they enjoy. That the world should revolve around his needs.
Thing is, the other kids like PB&J sandwiches, and you have no right to dictate what everyone else’s child may enjoy at lunchtime should they choose to provide that lunch item for them.

Maybe next time you should consider the location of your unit prior to signing a lease… ASS.

Sounds kinda like that pussy cousin of Kyle named Kyle on South Park. Always complaining and whining about everything, allergic to everything, can’t digest this and that kind of food. Hypochondriacs. These types are better off dead! LOL