Whacked Out Weekend

Well the weekend started out fairly normal - Sara and I went to Monk's on Friday night for Burgers and Brews and it was pretty good. Monk's specializes in Belgian beer, hamburgers, and mussels, and they come highly recommended. Sara and I both got a burger and fries and each tried a different kind of beer. The food was really good and we had a good time, it was a nice start to the weekend.

I worked a double shift Saturday at the front desk so I was there from 7am-11pm. The company is in the process of redoing the building so they can sell the units as condos and this weekend they started to work on the front desk area. So they needed to move us somewhere else and they decided to put us by the side entrance. It was quite the set up, we had a folding table out there with all your stuff on it. Unfortunately there is no heat in that area and it was cold Saturday morning so Wynona and I had to set up little space heaters to keep from freezing to death. We working the electricity so hard that we actually blew a fuse at one point - oops.

The rest of the day was alright until about 7:00pm when things started to go crazy. Wynona was actually on the phone with Sara at the time and Sara started to hear a weird noise. Then the fire alarm went off and Sara realized that the strange noise she was hearing was our neighbor's fire sprinklers. Next thing we know Dave1 was standing in front of Wynona and I soaking wet telling us that his sprinkler had randomly started to go off. (They still aren't sure what caused the sprinkler to go off. Dave says he was just hanging out but the maintenance workers say that it wouldn't have just gone off by itself; something must have prompted it.) While Wynona called the maintenance guys I went down stairs to see if I could help Dave with anything. When I got down there it was ridiculous. I don't know if you have ever seen a fire sprinkler going off before but it basically looks like a downpour only inside - very unnatural looking. Seriously one of the weirdist things I have seen in awhile.

The maintenance guys got down there as quickly as they could and shut off the electricity and the water supply and then did their best to drain the pipes. By the time the water stopped Dave's apartment was pretty much trashed and there was so much water that it had gone through the wall and come into our living room, ruining the carpet. The maintenance guys, Sara, and I spent about 3-4 hours cleaning things up in Dave's apartment and in ours. The carpet needed to be taken out of our living room so once again we are without carpet. (For those of you who don't know this is the second time we have flooded while at this apartment...In less than a year) It looks like we are going to try and move upstairs - Look out higher ground here we come.

Of course through this all I was still technically working so I was bouncing back and forth between the basement and the front desk. The most aggravating part for me was that tenants were getting annoyed that the fire alarm was sounding sporadically (they were attempting to reset the system) and kept calling down to the front desk to complain. Very annoying - especially the guy who threatened to call 911 if the Alarm went off one more time even though he knew it wasn't an emergency, he was just annoyed.




1. Names have been changed to protect the "innocent"