Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Direction of the Drip



Ring

"Hello.   Falling Water Apartment Homes, how may I help you?"

"I'd like to know, is the water falling from the ceiling?"

"Excuse me?"

"If the water's falling from the ceiling, I'd want an upstairs apartment."

"Uh..."

"Seriously.   I don't mind my water falling on someone else, but I'll be damned if I'll sit around and let other people's water fall on me.   You know what I mean?"

"Sir.   Sir, that's not what it means.   We have water fountains!

"Oh great, you're into that?   Never mind, I'll try Hanging Gardens instead, I'm feeling suicidal anyway."

Click

6 comments:

D said...

Actually, this was the furst attempt by the little known architect Frank Lloyd Left, at Urban Design. He later moved to a suburb of Phoenix.
Curiously, this tragic story was later adapted into a story by Ayn Remmington, launching her career as a bodice ripping novelist.

Lavi D. said...

Frank Lloyd Left, I get.

But Ayn Remmington?

Is this somehow related to Ayn Rand ???

-Clueless in Sin City

D said...

ding! went the bell on her typewriter. A Remmington Rand typewriter...

Did you get the link to Mr Left and your apartment complex name? Or the location of the house? Or the story?

I admit, the bodice ripping was simply obfuscation.

The_Scum said...

Whoops. Person above me overflowed the bathtub...I was getting ahead of myself.

D said...

Perhaps it was the Esteemed Management of your Cinci hotel that resettled in Vegas to make Lavi's Latest List.

vinnymoe said...

Type writers never crossed my mind.

I thought Frank building stick and stucco apartments was nicely analogous to Ayn penning bodice rippers.


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