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July 26, 2006
Bad timing
Dear Housing Management:
When the residents of housing, along with everyone else in Europe, is doing every conceivable thing to stay cool, you may want to reschedule things like POWER OUTAGES if there is a killer (that's a literal killer) heat wave outside. So as to not deprive the people who live here of the only thing they have to stay cool in your stupid non-A/C allowed houses- i.e. electric fans, water coolers and being able to get ice out of the freezer without fear of the whole lot of shit going bad. So please- if you are going to cut my only sanctuary- wait until the temperatures get out of the ninth ring of hell range, please. Might make you seem a little less like heartless demon guttersnipes from the bowels inside the earth.
And no, I don't give a shit that it was only 2 hours. Do you know how hot it got in here in 2 hours? It was 86 inside of the first 45 minutes. You should have waited until the heat wave broke. It's not like it was contracted work. It was the same dude who came up here to fix my ceiling fan last month, and patched that hole in the wall in January.
Asshats.
For those who don't live here in German Base Housing- no we have no A/C- you knew that, as I have told you- but the Government also disallows the military members to go spend their own money to get one and put one in- even a little one for the bedroom or something. "We the people" are to stupid to follow a possible set of guidelines they might distribute saying if you get an A/C it has to be under "this much" for power needs, lest it blow your breakers. The BX sells A/C units for Christ's sake; with a big sign saying people who live on base can't have it. What the shit is that? Nones for you- suffer, bitches. Of course these assholes who make the rules no doubt work in air conditioned offices.
Never mind that a heat wave 3 years ago wiped out almost 15,000 Europeans.... and this heat wave thus far has been worse- so I am sure the numbers are going to climb. It is told us that the rule has something to do with average temperatures and such- so long as global warming keeps up it's steadfast pace, shouldn't be long until they are authorized- however- it takes the government decades to do anything- so by the time us poor bastards are allowed to get an A/C- we'll be in the next ice age.
Posted by TheFreud at July 26, 2006 1:16 PM
Comments
WTF? Thats insane. We lived in base housing (we're Canadian Military) and never had a restriction like that. Aren't there AC units that don't have to be mounted in a window?
Posted by: Jennifer at July 31, 2006 7:18 PM