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well the thing is that there’s REAL economic downfall, and then there’s fancy layer caked economic downfall. comparing the two is beyond absurd.
*rob*
DIBS;
Very quick summary:
-when we moved in, some of asked the Board to install pictures in the lobby. Board refuses.
-Four families in my building (including me) chip in to buy pictures.
-Some pictures are stolen by delivery people going in and out of our lobby. Same families pay our porter/super to screw in expensive mirror that we purchased.
-Board announces that the porter/super will paint the lobby. Since porter/super will be doing painting, and I am in Israel last week, I request that he take down the mirror.
-Board refuses to have porter take down mirror. They say that I must contract with porter (i.e. pay him a fee to take it down) as the wall hangings are “personal property”
-I refuse to pay. Basically, I told the Board to go to hell. I’ve already contributed more than $300 out of my own pocket to install these paintings for the improvement of the common lobby, and I wasn’t going to be nickled and dimed on this trivial issue.
-Board relents. DOUCHEBAGS!!!!
“LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!”
OK, everybody clear the deck and just let rob and cobble go at it for a while.
cobble, you live in cobble hill and somehow have managed to still live there throughout this whole thing and you found a job. i dont see how you can relate to those people in any way. im pretty sure as hell they would scoff at the notion that some chick in some uber expensive nyc neighborhood feels their plight. c’mon now, let’s be real.
*rob*
“is it customary in america to congratulate people when they get married? that seems so odd to me.”
The classy conduct is as follows:
1) If the couple are there in front of you, or if its just the bride, you say congratulations and beam a smile.
2) If its the groom alone, you pat him on the back, give him your commiserations and offer to buy him a buy a stiff drink.
Yeah, I figured it out cobble. I read her new article. Doesn’t really say much. I left a comment.
“is it customary in america to congratulate people when they get married? that seems so odd to me.”
Rob, crawl back under your rock.
lechacal, You know, that Mommy, over on the Brooklyn Paper.