What a wonderful smell you've discovered!
Well, on a whim, I decided to see the movie The Island this weekend. I had fun with it. Sad thing is, the movie is a victim of false advertising. The trailers and commercials make it out to be this slam-bang action movie, when at heart its a good sci-fi thriller that happens to have some action sequences in it.
But that's not why I'm here. I'm here to talk about the foul smell I have to endure maybe three times a week or so. Right around maybe 6pm a pungent smell starts coming from one of the neighbors apartments through one of the AC ducts. I don't know if its from the type of food that's being prepared, or that the oven is in dire need of some cleaning. All I know is that it really makes it hard to breathe in my apartment. It's like from the movie Austin Powers in Goldmember when Fat Bastard is describing his own flatulence, "You know when you go into an apartment building and you smell the other people's cooking on each floor and you go 'What are they cookin'?' That, plus crap!"
I've tried several remedies.. a TrueAir air purifier, which does little; spray air fresheners, which only help the problem for a few minutes; stick-up air fresheners near the AC ducts, which dried up too fast.. nothing is a really solid solution. Its so bad that its one of the main reasons I want to move when my lease is up.
Anyone have this problem? And if so, do you have any solutions? I'm suffocating here.
posted by Quizibuck @ 6:00 PM
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I am sorry to hear about your smell problem. Mostly, I just responded because of the wonderful title you borrowed from Star Wars! We grilled recently on our apartment balcony (which is legal here if you use an electric grill). According to sources (our front office staff), the smell 'ruined dinner' for our downstairs grumpy old fart neighbor who is retired and has nothing to do.
So, in return, we have started "project parking lot." This neighbor is continually a bastard to all around him...including kicking a dog who was 'in his yard'. He parks next to his ground-floor patio...which is also an abandoned area of the parking lot. Because of his tendency to believe that all the area around him (including where he parks) is HIS property (in an apartment complex), we came up with our plan.
All inhabitants of building 600 are now going to start parking in the abandoned area, 'his area', of the lot. Sound silly and childish? Of course! But that is what makes America a great place...bastard neighbors and the things you can do to annoy them!
My suggestion is to come up with your own 'project parking lot' plan for your neighbor. You just can't tell someone that their food stinks, its just rude. But you can do what you want to annoy them...that is what this country is all about.
good luck--Tupelo
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