I’ve lived in my current apartment for more than six years, and for five of those years I’ve lived in the room that has roof access. This has translated to: various handymen, roofers, and landlords crawling in and out of my window when there’s a hole or a leak or an air conditioner problem (not that we have central air conditioning…the store downstairs holds that honor).

For a while there was a roofer named Willy who consistently called me before he was scheduled to come over, so that he could ask me if it was going to rain. I tried a few different approaches to this once I realized that “I don’t know” or “I don’t think so” weren’t working. Finally I told him that it wasn’t currently raining and that the forecast said it wasn’t going to rain until four (this was true). He called back an hour later and said it was going to rain so he would come next week.

(it didn’t rain)

Given all of this I was thrilled when my landlord decided to cut a hatch in the roof so that he would be able to access it directly from the store and bypass navigating through my window. Someone came, crawled through my window a penultimate time, cut a square in the blacktop, and then crawled back in and shut the gate for good, I hope.

My roommate, during the time this was occurring, was out of town at a bachelor party. He got back a few days later after little sleep and multiple flight delays. When he finally reached home he settled in to take a nap, only to wake up twenty minutes later to the sight of a shirtless, mustachioed man’s torso sticking out of his roof (where, as far as he knew, there was no hole), as the man swung a hammer loudly and randomly around.

(nap time over)

He captured some of this on video and it’s one of the greatest things I’ve seen. For reasons of decency and privacy I won’t post it but will instead share the three other things that have made me laugh that hard in the past five years:

1. http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

2. http://thebloggess.com/2011/06/21/and-thats-why-you-should-learn-to-pick-your-battles/

3. (make sure you click through the images)

Oh the humanity.

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