OCD owner

[Geek King]

Oooh, I can help with that. From where I'm sitting I can see seven swords, two daggers, an axe, a halberd, and a war hammer.

You know, axes and blades are fine for day-to-day work, but nothing really matches the satisfaction of beating that special someone with a mainframe keyboard from 1976. Thanks IBM!

[wagegoth]

You know, axes and blades are fine for day-to-day work, but nothing really matches the satisfaction of beating that special someone with a mainframe keyboard from 1976. Thanks IBM!

Those keyboards were insane. Not ergonomically correct in any way; keys were placed in odd places; they made weird "tock" sounds when depressed; and the keys would die one by one.

[MTNLaurelPoacher]

If the lady is going to fly off the handle and threaten to kill someone over a few tiny things like where the remote is placed, and the direction of the salad forks, she is asking for trouble. If you are going to be that obsessive about your stuff in your vacation home, why rent your vacation home out? Just lock it up and don't rent it. Barring a natural disaster or an act of man, your salad forks and blender will go unmolested till her return. Then you can whip out your carpenter square and make sure the deck furniture is at a 90 degree angle.

(I know it is expensive to own a vacation home on the beach and that people put them in rental pools to offset the cost of ownership.)

I fear for the day when something gets broken, stolen, lost, scratched, stained or rearranged. Those houses do take some hard wear and tear.

[Gabrielle Proctor]

I can think of a few directions those salad forks could go instead...

[protege]

I can think of a few places those salad forks could go instead...

Edited for my amusement

Seriously though, I can understand wanting one's residence to look nice. When I go on vacation, most of the hotels and private homes are spotless. I shit you not, folks--Cape May has some seriously expensive buildings, so it's only natural that their owners take care of them. However, very few of those places go to this extreme. Their view, is that if the grass is cut, the porch clean, fine. They simply don't have the time to adjust forks or make sure rugs are square with the floorboards.

[Evil Queen]

That guy is a little too.... uh... hmm.... yeah.. nevermind. I don't want to rent from him.

[Broomjockey]

I don't want to rent from him.

Pfft. Why NOT?! Half the fun of that vacation would be leaving the place juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust out of order, and taking pictures and sending them to the owner, thanking them for providing such a wonderful place to vacation.

[protege]

Now that's just *evil* Broom Funny as hell though--I'd be tempted to do it, just to send him over the edge!

[Evil Queen]

Why Broom! Your hiatus has made you evil!

Excellent!

[Broomjockey]

Why Broom! Your hiatus has made you evil!

Excellent!

I've always been evil! Just not the moustache-twirling, cape-wearing, cackling kind. I'm a subtle kind of evil.

[hinakiba777]

Guest: Dave, I am livid. I am the owner of a property and I am staying here now and I have a diagram in my unit of how everything should be set up yet I come in here and the salad forks are facing the wrong way, the blender is not sitting on the counter the way I have it in the diagram, the deck chairs are supposed to be placed around the table at 90 degree increments so that there is an equal amount of space between each chair, and the shower curtains must hang outide the tub, oh and the remote control is supposed to be flush with the edge of the end table. I even took pictures of it for you so you'd have something to go by. Why is not done properly? You know I shouldnt have to worry about it. I thought to myself surely they'll have it done right. Thank God I'm not a renter...surely you get complaints about stuff like this all the time.

As I read the crazy demands of this lady, I am perplexed by the curtain statement.

OUTSIDE THE TUB?! What the hell? Then the floor would get wet. Everyone know that you need to keep the shower INSIDE the bathtub, excluding the times when you are expressly taking a bath. That's the rule!

Anyway, the lady seems like a nutter. You should probably warn the property manager for her life.

I think I would have fun placing the salad forks....IN THE DESSERT SPOON DRAWER! MWAHAHAHAH!

[draftermatt]

I fear for the day when something gets broken, stolen, lost, scratched, stained or rearranged. Those houses do take some hard wear and tear.

A few years back we were renting a condo with another couple. On their night to cook they broke a serving spoon. So we went out and bought a replacement.

I'd like to think the owners weren't bothered by this, but now I wonder.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Pfft. Why NOT?! Half the fun of that vacation would be leaving the place juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust out of order, and taking pictures and sending them to the owner, thanking them for providing such a wonderful place to vacation.

The other half of the fun would be demanding discounts from the owner for every little thing that was out of place.

[mharbourgirl]

I'm a librarian. It's how I deal with my own OCD tendencies. I could drive your special owner batshit insane very, VERY easily. Shifting everything in the house exactly one degree from square would probably cause a terminal case of brain fusion. Just as a start. I could do so much worse, too, all without damage to property.

I even have a reduced rate for traveling to some place warm. *glares out the window at a bright sunny day with a windchill factor of -35C.*

[TonyDonuts]

Pfft. Why NOT?! Half the fun of that vacation would be leaving the place juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust out of order, and taking pictures and sending them to the owner, thanking them for providing such a wonderful place to vacation.

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