Rented houses

I don’t know if my luck of rented houses is very bad or these miseries are suffered by all naives. But any one looking for a rented house should be careful about a few things I believe.

One, the possessive tendency of landlords. One of my landladies had an excessive possessiveness on the house. She barred us from hammering nails so we could hang curtains. She clearly told us that she loves that house so much that when a nail is driven in the wall she feels as if its heart that is being nailed.

She taught me the second important lesson of possessiveness too. She lived above us. Her exit was absolutely different. There was a small garden with open boundary. So all day, all sorts of animals used to come and go. Starting from cow to ferrets. We made the mistake of feeding a few canines and she got absolutely ballistic. So, even if your entrance is absolutely separated from your landlords never feed strays. That was the lesson I learnt from them.

The next landlord has mentioned it in the deed. But he did not mention it in the deed that his rooms are under one feet water every monsoon. And the two years I spend there were perfect nightmares. On the first year three or four days water invaded the rooms but on the second year it invaded for more than ten days. He taught me to never trust landlords, brokers and self-interest driven people. Because that house was finalized via a broker and a man who had very serious business connections with my brother. My brother’s living near him would have been immensely advantageous for him. As for the broker…. Well we all know about them, don’t we?

No matter how much your landlords try to mix with you, if you are not a very diplomatic person you should keep a cold courteous relationship with them. The further they are the better for you.

Another bizarre thing occurred during my tenancy in this house. We did not had an independent access to our rooms. The main door was controlled by the land lords. I often used to have a feeling that someone entered my rooms while we were in office.

Then one day it was semi confirmed. We lived in the back portion of the house. My kitchen window opened in the courtyard of the next flat. I was cooking when a vendor woman boldly confronted me. It was an unexpected leave of course, I bunked office because I was feeling unwell.

That woman told me that she has brought the bucket which my mother asked her for. I told her that I live there with only one more person and he sure is not a woman.

She confidently described my landlady and said that she has asked her from this very window for a bucket which she did not had on Saturday, so she told her that she will bring it on Monday. She repeatedly told that this was the window from which the order was placed.

Now that meant only one thing, that our rooms were used behind our backs with duplicate keys. Purpose? It can be any thing starting from saving own electricity to stealing.

Haunted Cell-phones

How many of you face them? I sometimes suspect that my cell-phones are haunted. Or they are all crazy.

When the problems used to happen in earlier stages I used to share them with others, and they used to blow away my words, saying that they can’t happen. Then I started to collect the evidences. Then only they agreed that my cell phones act weirdly.

My second connection was a Vodafone connection. A number which drove me crazy. The mistake might have been my own. I used to keep it in my office desk and leave the seat sometimes. I left that job but the ghost remained in my cell. The phone used to send ghost smses to my friends. Received smses as per its choice. That is half of the smses never reached me. Or the phones never rang. Whereas the friends used to say that the phone rang alright but no one picked it up, or it was giving engaged tone. Where as I have hardly one or two friends, who rarely call, so engaged tone is out of question and what about the missed call record if they called and no one picked it up?

I ultimately stopped using it.

Then I got two airtel connections. One my own and one previously used by my brother. Initially they seemed to do alright. Then weird things started to happen. Now I don’t even bother about them any more. The two things which surprised me most were-

1. I had two handsets at that time, one a Nokia black and white handset the other a Sony high-end phone. I keyed in a number from the nokia handset to the Sony handset and called. I talked with the woman and disconnected. Then when I opened the Sony handset to save the number in the address-book I saw that the number which I have dialed has vanished and in place of that my second number was showing. I even showed it to the shop owner he said it was virus.

2. Second thing has started recently. Every time I send a sms, the delivery report is shown instantly. Attached with the money deducted message. Usually a message takes a few seconds to get delivered, right? Then more added to it. I noted for a few days that after once sending the sms to the desired person it was sending it to a second person free of cost. It was first showing “delivered to M” then after a few seconds “delivered to A”.

It started to wake me up at odd times, playing its own merry tunes. Though it can ring alarm only once a day. And even that was turned off. Yet it used to drag me out of bed at 3 AM singing songs.

How many of you face these weird problems? Of my cell-phones are haunted?

A fair warning

In my long run of blogging i have met some people who dont mind stealing other people's works on net, or harassing others. i have been harassed to no end by a gang of trolls for more than two years, WORST PART IS THEY USE MY BLOG NAMES, AFTER SLIGHTLY MODIFYING THEM OR OPENING THE SAME BLOGS UNDER OTHER WEBSITES. That is why i always keep my friends informed about the blog sites i am using/not using. I hope my friends wont ignore these words.

I dont want them to be fooled by any troll or favour seeker using my name. i recently even deleted a remote desktop connection file from my computer, and my brother said these files are mainly used by favour seeking spammers... "please help me in transferring millions of dollars my husband left in a foreign bank before dying :)"

so... WHEN I SAY SOMETHING .... BETTER KEEP THAT IN MIND. There is one thing i can certainly vow about, I WILL NEVER ASK ANY ONE ANY KIND OF FAVOURS, IF SOME ONE ASKS YOU SOME FAVOUR THAT WILL NOT BE ME. :)

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