New Carpet

Posted by jafer

November 17, 2009

Last night I was in a mood. I’ve been bothered by the carpeting in our living/dining room because we’ve steam-cleaned it so many times that it started getting all loose and wrinkly, so I asked my snookey to phone the landlord and tell them we wanted something done about it.

He phoned, they had the ‘carpet expert’ who had installed it come in and say that they could stretch it and pull it tight again. However, that was not good enough for me when I was out there looking at it and thinking that it looked moldy around the edges – which may well be since we’ve steam-cleaned it so many times in 12 years of living here… maybe the edges never got dry.

Anyway, I called the landlord last night and had a little hissy fit. She, of course, was going on about how cheap our rent is (implying I guess that for rent this cheap, we don’t get new carpeting), and I, of course, going on about the improvements we’ve made, how well we’ve kept up the place and done repairs and been good tenants.

She finally seemed to be the calmer of us both and said something to the effect of us being the tenants if we were to get new carpeting we should at least be paying half. To which I said, “sure”.

So tonight the owners, my snookey and I hiked off to the carpet place to choose a carpet. And – big AND – the carpet is going to be installed tomorrow. I guess that carpet place is not too busy, but I don’t care about that – it’ll be done tomorrow! It’ll be done in time for the two dinners we’re having this weekend – one Saturday, one Sunday, and for the show I’m having in-house next weekend. And the carpet will only cost me $735 for my half (fuck, carpet is expensive).

So I’m a happy camper. Maybe sometimes a hissy fit is a good thing in helping get what you want. My snookey and I had talked about buying new carpet before but I said that I wanted the landlord to at least pay half. That’s exactly what we’re getting – only it’s now ‘her idea’.

The carpet is a nice beige and taupe texture that the guy says is very stain resistant (except not that good with coffee). So I’ll try to spill only my beer on it – not coffee.

I can hardly wait to get home from work tomorrow night. Oh, that’s right, I’ve got a meeting tomorrow night. That’s a good thing too, I guess. Maybe by the time I get home, my snookey will have all the furniture put back. The scariest thing will be him trying to rehook up the TV, Blu-Ray, PVR and Receiver. We may not be watching any TV tomorrow night.

Domestic Crap

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