Comments on: Short fuses over shorted fuses

By: mystic_eye_cda

mystic_eye_cda — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:21:09 +0000

The last apartment I lived in… admittedly 7ish years ago had fuses but they were in each unit.

They said they would come and replace them if they burned out (and lightbulbs, who the heck expects the landlord to pay for lightbulbs), we said that was stupid and they left us a bunch of extras so we could change them. We never needed to, possibly because the wiring was fine and possibly because we didn’t use things like hair dryers, toaster ovens, etc.

Someone should talk to building management I bet they would pay for them

By: Calantha

Calantha — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:33:26 +0000

Why is it that there are so many brain dead people in the world that thinks its alright to steal fuses? And then there is the other half of passive aggressive that leaves a note! I love it! I love my cat!

By: Nunavut Guy

Nunavut Guy — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:41:09 +0000

At seven bucks for two that adds up fast.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:37:16 +0000

Someone stole them and replaced them with lower case letters.

By: TippingCows

TippingCows — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:43:30 +0000

Nice pun!

By: kermit

kermit — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:49:02 +0000

I don’t think it has anything to do with stealing (or people being jerks) so much as the fact that the communal laundry room is not your own personal storage space.

Just like the office fridge is not your own personal fridge where you can store your groceries for weeks on end. I don’t know where you people work, but most places have a mandatory rule that the fridge gets cleaned out on Fridays. If you’ve left stuff in there by Friday night, it gets thrown out/taken.

As someone already said, unless the laundry room has a communal storage space for tenants to store stuff, you have no business leaving stuff there.

By: Catt of the Garage

Catt of the Garage — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:17:06 +0000

Circuit breakers are safer than fuses, not because of technical reasons, but because people are idiots who will fit the wrong fuses and/or use pennies, bits of wire, etc. etc. – and in an apartment building, it’s not just your own household who will burn to death as a result of your stupidity. Having lived above crazy neighbours, I say yay circuit breakers!

By: Catt of the Garage

Catt of the Garage — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:14:15 +0000

Am I the only one who finds it bizarre for apartment buildings to have the fuseboxes in a communal space? When I used to live in a flat, our meter and circuit breakers were inside our flat, along with the water shutoffs, toilet, bed and other items that I considered to be entirely my business. The only fuses in the communal hallway were the ones for the stair lighting. Why would it be any other way???

By: oi

oi — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:10:48 +0000

How does it feel to be all up grown up and shit angela_G?

As CB said it’s one of the unpleasant truth of the world, people will steal, loot and plunder from others with full knowledge of what they are doing and if it’s easy to just grab it then even more people would do it. It’s not right, it’s not fair but it’s universal and ancient.

By: angela_G

angela_G — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:10:06 +0000

But you did know people who were so nice that they just randomly bought laundry supplies for the use of any of the people in their buildings?

If less people took things that they knew didn’t belong to them, maybe people wouldn’t have to schlep their laundry detergent back and forth to the laundry room.

Obviously that’s not going to be happening soon since some people think it’s a ok to take things that don’t belong to them.

By: Nunavut Guy

Nunavut Guy — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:41:27 +0000

I’m making a killing off the fuse concession at the local hardware store.

signed Jenice’s (sorry,,jenice’s) down stairs neighbour.

By: Nunavut Guy

Nunavut Guy — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:33:31 +0000

Do you have something against capital letters?

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:35:21 +0000

I’d never assume that laundry supplies left in a communal laundry room were there for the taking unless my lease said that “X” amount of dollars of my rent was used to buy laundry supplies.
But I wouldn’t leave my personal property (my laundry supplies) in the laundry room unattended and assume no one would use them any more than I’d leave my car keys in the ignition and the car door open when I leave my car in the parking lot.
People steal. If you offer up easy takings, there will more than likely be someone who takes advantage of your generosity.

By: Rattus

Rattus — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:46:21 +0000

If the office fridge contains lunch bags and yogurts and Cokes, I know that people have brought them in for their lunch. If I saw a box of detergent and a bottle of bleach sitting in the laundry room week after week, I would assume that they were there for communal usage because I have never met anyone, ever, who didn’t take their stuff with them when they left the laundry room.