The Showdown (part 7 of 8)
Ok, it’s Monday and our place is organized, just needed cleaning. A cleaning woman (Susan) who has worked for JD’s family for several years came to clean. The momma told me that Susan has a dog and 2 cats and loves animals! La madre gave the momma a really great idea. Put me in daycare (yay!) and board the cats for the day. Also, put the litter box and all cat toys in the garage at her house. So now there are no signs of cats! Ken showed up at 11 am with the terminix man. The momma told him that he was supposed to come at 4pm. Ken said that terminix needed to inspect my place for bugs and mice. The momma told him that there were no bugs and definitely no mice in our place but they should check next door since there is a strong odor over there. Ken then asked if he could come back at 3 instead of 4pm so that maintenence would have time to patch up any holes and fix my toilet. The momma told him that would be ok. So, Ken showed up at 3:30 and the place is spotless! Ken looked around for while the maintenence guy (Sam) is fixed the toilet. JD also showed up around 4 to give the momma some support. As Ken was leaving:
Ken: Well, I’m going to head back. I appreciate you getting the place cleaned up.
JD: Ken, I came over last week with a few other people and none of us smelled anything.
Ken: Well there was a strong animal odor in here that I smelled last week. And maintenence was with me and they smelled it too.
The momma: There’s no way an odor strong enough to cause Keith’s place to smell bad could have come out of my place.
Ken: Well, there certainly was a strong animal smell here.
The momma: Look! I’m a veterinarian AND a scientist! I think I would know if a strong animal odor existed here! There was no way my place is the cause of the odor next door!
Ken: Well, I’m not going to argue with you. Sam, are you almost finished?
Sam: Yes, I just need to get the new CO detector put in.
Ken: Ok, I’ll head back and let you finish up here.
Then Ken left.
JD: Sam, were you here last week? [to the momma] Sam is one of the good guys. He is honest and very trustworthy.
Sam: I smelled a slight musty odor, but it wasn’t as strong as next door. To be honest with you, it’s not that uncommon of a problem.
JD and Sam left a few minutes later. The momma wanted to wait until 6 before picking all of us up at daycare.
5pm, the momma’s phone rang. It was JD.
JD: You are going to love what just happened!
The momma: what?
JD: I ran into Ken after I left your place. He asked me if you still had 3 animals. I told him that they were staying at a friends until you could work out some sort of arrangement. But, I also told him that your copy of the by-laws didn’t mention a limit of 2 pets and if the new situation didn’t work out we would take it before the board to get a special waiver to keep all of the pets. He said, really? it’s not in her copy of the by-laws? Hmmmm. I guess as long as they don’t cause any problems we can always look the other way.
YES!!!!!!!!!!
The End!
