I hope I don't die

[Black Sunday]

so it is cold. really cold.

i am renting the basement of this idiot's house. that was my first mistake.

the furnace doesn't work. it is freezing in this house. the guy who owns the house is with his girlfriend, i keep caling him pleading with him to call the furnace repair man. he claims he did but the guy isn't answering his phone.

i know the furnace is simply not going to get fixed because this guy is a idiot. ihate this guy. he simply does not care. he is at his girlfriends house so he doesnt care how cold i am.

it is now 55 degrees in the house and falling. at this rate it will be in the 30's in here tonight, i hope i don't die. i have nowhere else to go.

[soothsayer]

If you can go upstairs and camp out in the kitchen with the stove on or something. I hope the stove is electric but if not just be careful and get some heat in that room. If I could help you I would but my hands are tied. I've been in bad situations before and almost froze to death.

[phee]

If you die, can I have your stuff?

[soothsayer]

Phee ~ that's cold. Now look what you made me do. :laughing

[Black Sunday]

If you die, can I have your stuff?

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yes, my laptop is password protected though......the password is screwyouphee!

i will leave it in my will :grin

[soothsayer]

yes, my laptop is password protected though......the password is screwyouphee!

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:laughing :laughing

[phee]

Danke

[LuluVox]

Get your ass outta the basement. Drink hot beverages. I hope you have a hat on (I'm sure your mother taught you that most of your body heat escapes through your head, right?) and something on your feet. At this point, layers of clothing + blankets are your best friend. Bundle up, baby.

Also, I'd watch it with the stove... it could cause some serious damage to the ceiling of the kitchen... and besides, stoves are weird anyway; I'd hate to hear that you carbon-monoxided yourself to death whilst trying not to freeze to death. That's not to say I wouldn't have a little chuckle about the irony, but... you know. Dying is bad. Stay alive.

As Morrissey said (and I know how much you love Morrissey!), "just do your best and don't worry".

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Oh, and also... if you can light a few candles, that actually might help, too. Just don't go crazy and burn the place down.

[Black Sunday]

yeah

i am not in the basement

i am wearing lots of clothes and blankets

the furnace is still not fixed

it is now 52 degrees in here

fuck my roomate

p.s. regarding morrissey, i'd prefer to hear Nelly right now....."it's getting hot in here"

[LuluVox]

Yes, but then you'd "take off all your clothes"... and then you'd die for reals.

[Black Sunday]

Yes, but then you'd "take off all your clothes"... and then you'd die for reals.

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if i took my clothes off i think it would be anyone near me that would be the ones suffering.

[LuluVox]

But maybe you would inspire them to give you their jacket!

[Black Sunday]

and this guy has a space heater, i just got to pick it up but my car is in the shop. I ask the jackass if he can pick it up for me and he tells me that he's on the other side of town and can't do it.

i'm seriously consideting beating his ass.

either way i am moving out this week. this is unnacceptle.

take off your pants and jacket.

[FarrIL]

Turtenecks, hats, stove, candles, hot drinks.....

Lotsa blankets........

And for pity's sake, find his GF's house and pitch a fit or just look for another apartment and bail on his ass. Or call the furnace guy and charge your roomate. ;P

[Black Sunday]

Turtenecks, hats, stove, candles, hot drinks.....

Lotsa blankets........

And for pity's sake, find his GF's house and pitch a fit or just look for another apartment and bail on his ass.  Or call the furnace guy and charge your roomate.  ;P

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see I tried to call a furnace guy on my own but my jackass roomate said he wouldn't authorise any work without his approval and that he wanted to look at it first.

[Soulrev]

Might want to look into your local laws and see what your rights are as a tenant.. I think in most places if your landlord fails to make necessary repairs after you have consulted him/her so many times, you have the right to terminate the lease contract or call a repairman and deduct it from your monthly rent.. All depends though.. Check this place out, helped me out some time back when I had landlord problems - http://www.badlandlords.info/cgi-bin/BLF/YaBB.cgi

Personally I say go get his couch, bring it downstairs and light it on fire.. Tell him you were cold Lol

[FarrIL]

Personally I say go get his couch, bring it downstairs and light it on fire.. Tell him you were cold Lol

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I second that!! OO

[Daevion]

so it is cold. really cold.

i am renting the basement of this idiot's house.  that was my first mistake.

the furnace doesn't work.  it is freezing in this house.  the guy who owns the house is with his girlfriend, i keep caling him pleading with him to call the furnace repair man.  he claims he did but the guy isn't answering his phone.   

i know the furnace is simply not going to get fixed because this guy is a idiot.  ihate this guy.  he simply does not care.  he is at his girlfriends house so he doesnt care how cold i am. 

it is now 55 degrees in the house and falling.  at this rate it will be in the 30's in here tonight, i hope i don't die.  i have nowhere else to go.

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Wow, thats complete bullshit. If i were you I would refuse to pay any rent till he gets that fixed. Some people won't get off thier ass till you cost them money.

[Black Sunday]

thanks for the suggestions everybody!

the other guy that lives here came home (he was supposed to be away for the weekend) and brought me a space heater! So I was warm all night! I insisted he use it since it was his but he is a hardcore christian and gave it to me. his name is jason....

so jason calls up the homeowner and he too asks him to come home and take care of this problem. the homeowner got pissed at him and when he finally came home at 2 AM he was pissed at both of us for bothering him about the furnace, he said it wasn't a big deal and to just wear eaxtra clothes.

can you believe that? we are freezing and he is mad at us for bugging him about it. well i still have this awesome space heater so I'm fine.

I found out from Jason that this isn'tthefirst time this happened, it happened in the dead of winter and it was 25 degrees outside! and the furnace didn't get fixed for 3 days......I'm glad I wasn't there for that one.

[phee]

Sooo... you didn't die I take it....

[Black Sunday]

Sooo... you didn't die I take it....

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man i would be so goth if i was posting as a ghost.

but eh, no....you can't have my stuff phee.

and by the way, i didn't mean this as a joke thread either, part of me was worrying yesterday that if it got down into the 30's inside the house, how safe I would be. I know you're not supposed to sleep in extreme cold conditions i was just unsure at what point it would be too cold.

[phee]

Ah... well if you ever actually are afraid of dying due to weather, you can always crash at my place and sleep under the enormus dog we own...

[Fierce Critter]

On December 4, 2002, we ran out of propane, which fueled the only heater in the ancient house we were living in Lillington, NC, the first house we lived in when we moved here (an in-wall heater that heats the whole house, not a little portable unit). We were supposed to close on a house purchase on December 6, so we were gonna run electric heaters & let the electric oven run here and there until we closed and not pay to have a bunch of propane delivered that we weren't going to use past 1 day.

Then on the 5th, the ice storm hit. And the electricity went out.

So Jon's at work, and I'm using our limited-minutes Tracphone to figure out if our closing is going to go down on the 6th. And I'm only getting busy signals and answering machines. You see, if it even gets to about 40 degrees, businesses start closing. Major ice storm with lots of trees falling on wires means EVERYTHING SHUTS DOWN. Including realtors & lawyers offices.

So I spend the day with the animals in the truck with me (just a dog & 1 cat at that time), driving around trying to stay warm in the truck with the heater going. I stop in at Jon's business where they let me use an office & phone to try to get into contact with the realtor. I finally go camp out on the doorstep of the realtor's office, waiting for them to open up.

Once they do, they try to figure out what's going to happen. Long story short, closing AIN'T gonna happen on the 6th. And the way things are going, looks like it ain't gonna happen until after the weekend. NOT GOOD.

So the night of the 5th, we go to bed in a ton of clothes, with every blanket & large towel available on the bed, and we snuggle together TIGHT with the dog & cat under the covers with us. If the rabbit wasn't so darned squiggly, he'd be in there, too. It's a fucking NIGHTMARE. Most uncomfortable night I've ever spent in my life.

Luckily, by the next day, they find a different lawyer to do our closing, and we manage to get it done by 7:00 at night. We move only the bed & some necessary clothes/toiletries over to the new house and enjoy the luxury of central heating.

NO heat sucks. MAJOR. Get all over your landlord's ass - and good luck to you.

[Onyx]

man i would be so goth if i was posting as a ghost.

but eh, no....you can't have my stuff phee.

and by the way, i didn't mean this as a joke thread either, part of me was worrying yesterday that if it got down into the 30's inside the house, how safe I would be.  I know you're not supposed to sleep in extreme cold conditions i was just unsure at what point it would be too cold.

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Glad you are okay, and you are right, it's no joke! People really do freeze to death in their sleep right here in our lovely state.

Your landlord is a real ass and it is a good thing you are going to get out of there.

[JaneDead]

i thought you were going that one day to get a space heater??

i can't believe that the landlord let that happen with the furnace. what a jackass!!