The last of the toilet..

Well it was a very busy weekend and thats why this has taken me so long to write this up. Our non speaking maintenance man came of Friday with a big grin on his face and a toilet tank in his hands. "Senorita" he said "This third time I come." I said "Yes, this is the third time you have came but the 5th time as a crew of fixing people to come." So he got to work on replacing the tank of the toilet. It did not take him very long and now we can sleep in peace. The only problem now is getting used to the new tank. You see the handle is on the side of the toilet instead of the front and that toilet seats dont stay up. But its an economy toilet and it works as a toilet and not a monster!

Toilet update..

Well folks I wish I could say this will be the last post about my poor toilet but its not..
The non English speaking maintenance man came again with his handy dandy friend who changed our light bulb. When Stefen talked to them on the phone this morning he told them that it was still emptying and filling up and they said that they would come replace the whole toilet. So as these 2 men entered my home I got a very important phone call. I put the lady on hold so I could hear what was going on. The jist is he replaced everything AGAIN and possibly the flapper valve. But remember this guy can speak like 4 words of English. I tried to insist that they have already done that and it would not fix a dang thing. So Stefen and I looked in the toiled when they left and some piece was leaking. I said "I hope till the cows fly that the thing dripping water is suppose to do that." He blankly stared at me and said its not. But listen to the toilet and see if it empties." So before I left for work it did not. But guess what I heard!? You guessed right folks! It emptied and refilled. I think its getting less and less frequent but by golly jeeze guys I just want my toilet to be a toilet not some scary thing in the dark bathroom. I will update you on the status of this monster!

The toilet..

My frustrations with the our master toilet as of late are to high. Such a simple device such as a toilet should not cause so much stress. Now people don't go thinking that I am talking about now frustrations that people have with a toilet. I am talking about the fact that the stupid thing feels like it should not be a toilet any longer. 

For several months out toilet was dripping and leaking on the inside in the bowl. At first it was a soft quiet non harmful sort of leak. But then it just got worse and worse. So Stefen broke done and called the maintenance man. I love the fact that we live in an apartment complex that will pay and do just about anything we ask. So this nice although non English speaking man who kept calling me seniora came to fix our wonderful toilet the first time. In not so many words because I can understand about 4 words in Spanish and he could speak about 6 words in English, I was informed that a flappy would be fixed. Yes folks this is all I could understand of this man. So he left to get the flappy and I went to work. Later to find out he meant the flapper valve. I came home from work hoping to hear nothing but the peace of a quiet house. But woe is me I did not. I heard the annoying kerplunking sound of the leak inside the toilet. Stefen said we should wait a couple days and see if it will fix itself. (Don't you wish that inanimate objects would fix themselves? I sure do :)) So I waited 3 days until I finally insisted that he call the maintenance man and tell them that they better get it fixed this time or I would be sleeping on their office floor till it got done. 

He called on a Sunday and by Monday afternoon they were here to fix it. Now I was not here this time when they came but they left a note saying the replaced the whole insides of the toilet. I was happy, No joyous, No ecstatic! There was no longer dripping or kerplunking just peace and quiet. Until I heard it. Something I think is slightly more aggravating and more annoying then the first noise. Folks my toilet at this point would empty itself and fill itself back up. Which does not sound as bad as the dripping noise but it was worse much much worse. Sometimes you would go 4 or 5 hours without hearing it fill itself. Other times it would do it 10 time in a 20 min period. Thats right you read those numbers right last night every 2 minutes it would empty and refill itself. Stefen being the mechanic he is thought he could fix it. So he attempted 4 times because he didn't think that the maintenance man needed to come for something so petty. Well he time he touched that dang toilet it seemed to become more and more frequent. So he broke down and called them yesterday. They came first thing this morning and I explained to the guy as this was a different man what all they had done and he opened and said "I see that it has all been replaced. Are you more worried about the water usage or the noise?" I looked at him in the most odd way as he knows that our water bill is split between every single tenant. We dont pay much for water as it is. So I looked at him and said "Mr. I dont really care about how much water that toilet is using. I would just like to know what it feels like to not be woken up by the stupid toilet every hour." So he informed me that he would replace the flapper valve...

Once he was done he came to me and said if it is still doing it in a couple days we will replace the whole toilet and he left. So 10 minutes after he left as I am folding laundry guess what my toilet does? Yep you guessed it! It emptied and refilled itself. As I sit here typing this story it has done it 3 times. So tomorrow I am insisting that Stefen calls them and have them come again. As much as I dont want or need my bathroom torn apart I guess if we want peace and quiet it will happen.

I will let you know what happens to my toilet that seems to hate us....

Can I just get my money back?

So Stefen and I dont have a very big tv and we dont have cable or dish or anything like that. We just have a small collection of dvd's and thats it. So last weekend we were bored and we came up with the idea to borrow my moms Netflix account (thanks mom) and watch it over the internet. But its kinda a pain. So Stefen thought we could just buy a cord to connect the laptop to the TV and everything will be perfect. So we went on Amazon found what we thought was the right cord for cheap. The description verified that it was what we wanted. So we bought it. Well it came in the mail yesterday and we were trying to hook it up and it just wouldnt work. We tried EVERYTHING! Well I decided this was stupid and I wanted my mom back. So we wrote a letter to the company and this is what it said.  (Please note we dont have a Wii it was just to get our point across)


Your product details are stupid!! We have tried to use this cable to connect to everything!!! A tv to monitor and dvd to laptop a wii to monitor. And NONE of it works. I was so excited that I found this product for cheap and then I cant use it for ANYTHING except to waste space in my tiny apartment. I am VERY disappointed with your company and this product. You need to post a better description saying that this product is defective and does not work!  That would be more accurate then what you have. I would like my money back but I do not think that it fair that I have to pay for postage to send the stupid little thing back to you when you clearly wont be able to use it either since it is broken and has no other use then to say hey look I am a bunch of random wires that thinks I can do something and I cant.
So the whole point of this little email is to say that your product is a waste of space and peoples skills to make the thing when clearly they dont have knowledge to create a proper product. And you clearly dont have the brain matter to create a correct product description. So even though I only spent $3 on the thing, I am in college and I can use that $3 for a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread. So I want my money back.

Thank you

Did you have a good laugh? Stefen did he was in tears when he read it. Well I did get my money back by the way. Have a good day.