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crazy_arcade · Joined: 05 Nov 2006

Came home after school today and the water wasn't working in my place. "That's weird," I thought to myself after trying every faucet several times.

I was annoyed because I had wanted to take a shower before I headed off to Korean class. Oh well.

I went to my Korean class and then out to dinner and arrived home 20 minutes ago to a room full of steam. I had left the shower faucet in the hot water position and it turned on when the water came back on.

So now all the wall paper is damaged. It's all bubbled up and wrinkled in most places. I'm moving next week anyways, but now I'm worried that I'm going to end up having to pay to have it replaced. I'm thinking about trying to iron the walls and ceiling.... Laughing

Hanson · Joined: 20 Oct 2004

Friggin' AWESOME story!

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Join Me · Joined: 14 Jan 2008

Just let it dry out a few days...it should shrink out all the wrinkles on its own. But if that doesn't work try a steam iron and place a towel over the wall paper.

crazy_arcade · Joined: 05 Nov 2006

flakfizer · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject:

How long have you lived there? It's customary for the landlord to change the wallpaper for new tenants anyway unless you've only been there a very short time.

Hanson · Joined: 20 Oct 2004

crazy_arcade · Joined: 05 Nov 2006

crazy_arcade · Joined: 05 Nov 2006

I'd now like to turn this thread into the apartment mishap thread. Maybe the mods could retitle it and move it over to general discussion?

About 5 months ago on a Sunday and my girlfriend was coming over for her birthday.
I spent all morning getting the place super clean, making a birthday cake, and making dinner. I had everything dialed and then the kitchen tap began to leak. It wasn't just a drip drip leak but a pretty good constant flow.

So the maintenance guy comes up and wrenches everything on the tap as tight as he possibly can, effectively stopping the leak. He then tells me that they'll fix it better the next day.

Fastforward and hour later, it's 3 pm and I'm due to meet my girlfriend at the subway station. I've got one shoe on when all of a sudden I hear a loud thunderous shaking from the kitchen faucet. I turned around and it litterally exploded. The hand shot straight up to the ceiling and I had a freaking water geyser in my one-room.

Not knowing how to shut off the water and not having any decent tools I decided to run and get the maintenance guy again. I found him in the garage and repeatedly yelled, "MUL, MUL, MUL!!!!!!!" He doddled, slowly found his tools, and slowly followed my as I ran back up. I got back to my place and there was already a good couple of inches of water on the floor.
It took the guy another 5 minutes to get it under control. My place was totally flooded.

At this time, my girlfriend shows up at my place wondering why I didn't meet her at the subway statino like we had planned. She's in shock for a minute and then we spent the first 3 hours of her birthday celebration sopping up water, moving furniture, and sopping up more water. Fortunately, she's a trooper.

Couldn't imagine what would've happened if it had exploded a minute or two later than it actually did. We would've come back to my place and there probably would've been a foot or two of water.

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

The swear filter screw-ups definitely helped that story. Very Happy