For the past week or so, I have been battling my upstairs neighbor for hot water supremacy. Every morning, I wake up at 5:30am and stumble into the shower. I usually get about 1 minute of hot water before it disappears because the bastard upstairs gets in the shower at seemingly the same time as me every morning. Trying to correct the problem, I usually crank up the hot water, which works for about 30 seconds before I am blasted with scalding hot water. Now imagine the little dance I do every morning. A few days ago I got so mad I screamed "MOTHERFUCKER!!!!" towards the ceiling, hoping they could hear me.
It wasn't until this morning that I realized that the problem wasn't my neighbor. My neighbor was probably counting sheep at 5:30. Turns out my plumbing takes about 5 minutes to reach a stable temperature. What I thought was the sound of my neighbors shower upstairs was actually my own plumbing, so I've been cursing through the ceiling at no one.
Maybe this isn't funny to anyone else... but I laughed to myself when I realized what a total idiot I am.
kara [email] said at 2:27 PM 06-04-2004: Youre lucky it EVER gets stable.
Our toilet leaks, so it makes the shower go hot cold hot cold as the tank refills.
So you have to turn the toilet off, and even then youre at the mercy of everyone else in the building, seemingly.
myriam [email] said at 2:29 PM 06-04-2004: ha ha, this is exactly the kind of thing that earned me the nickname "dippy" in college. it IS pretty funny!
ed [email] said at 2:38 PM 06-04-2004: One time I got scalded by a shower in a hotel and I couldn't remember how to work the faucet so I was making this incoherent noise partway between a wail and a scream. You lose all coherent thought, and bailing out never even occurs.
I wasn't laughing then, but I still chuckle to myself when I think about that incident. I've never heard such a noise, before or since.
amy [email] said at 3:29 AM 06-05-2004: we just moved into an apartment after 5 years in a house. ouch. the thing i hate most are the random noises. or the not so random, oh fuck, is that my neighbor peeing noise? yuck!!!!!
anotherben [email] said at 4:42 PM 06-04-2004: do you people that have been blaming your neighbors on your hot water woes not have your own hot water heaters?
amy [email] said at 3:25 AM 06-05-2004: we have our own hot water heater but it has no knobs of any kind to adjust it with. go figure. try shaving your legs in cold water buddy. wooohhoooo.
