{"id":1440,"date":"2016-12-03T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2016-12-03T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T16:17:29","slug":"1440","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Apartment Dweller Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This memory was dredged up by https:\/\/www.aboveaverage.com\/watch\/above-average-presents\/everyones-upstairs-neighbors\/<\/a><\/p>\n

One day I was sitting in my 2nd-floor apartment in a multi-family home. I was the meat of the apartment sandwich: a family below me, and a family above me. The house was owned by our very good friend Val Scott Barker<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One Saturday afternoon I was quietly reading at home when a tremendous crash echoed from upstairs. I, like so many apartment dwellers before me, stood under the source of the sound for a long moment and wondered just what exactly happened up there.<\/p>\n

My wonder only increased when several minutes later the ceiling fan in the middle of the room started dripping a whitish fluid. Inspection was inconclusive because it was tinged reddish-brown. Had they killed someone with a can of white paint up there? The lamp had a steady stream for a short while, and dripped for almost an hour; I caught it in a small cup. Upon further inspection it appeared to be milk that had picked up dirt from between the floors.<\/p>\n

Several days later the mystery was put to bed when I talked to one of the occupants. Their toddler wanted something on a high shelf in the fridge, and had pulled an entire shelf out — one that included a full gallon of milk. Most of the milk disappeared into the hardwood floor before she could clean it up.<\/p>\n

We moved out a couple of years later, into a house of our own. Bill and Laura had created a second small adorable child, but they never topped the milk pouring out of the ceiling while I was there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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