Smoking
So the tenant downstairs is smoking. The smoke wafts up a ventilation duct from his bathroom and into mine. Making my room smoking. Now, I love a good smoke like the next man, but when smoke comes uninvited, I get annoyed. So I went down to ask him to stop, knocked on the door, heard the tv and him get up, come to the door, and then … nothing. I kept knocking for a while, but you can’t fight passive aggressive, so I left. My game plan is to:
- Come back randomly until I get ahold of them
- Rat them out to the landlady
- Get an anti smoking injunction
Fortunately, the “no smoking” thing is in my lease, so if they don’t stop / aren’t force to stop, I can just recover my deposit and leave, since my lease has been breached.
This entry was posted on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 11:00 pm and is tagged with ventilation duct, smoke wafts, landlady, game plan, ahold, injunction, downstairs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.
on February 5th, 2008 at 4:15 am
Elliot, I’m a smoker myself. However I can’t stand smoke indoors. It lingers, gets stale, smells for days, etc. I ALWAYS try to go outside out of the respect for others… But I guess someone’s got to be ignorant, right? Good luck, and hope that no flames break out from that smoke!
on February 5th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Why not fix the ventilation duct so it doesn;t convey smoke? You’d solve the problem of cooking odors as well.Or don’t you care about cooking smells?
I wonder where all these hypersensitive squawkers come from. Back in smoking days–a mere twenty years ago– you never heard a word, I suspect you’re a recreational troublemaker as well as a smoker. How do you feel about quitting yourself?
on February 5th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I like smoke, just on my own terms. I bet I can think of some gases, like SF6, that you wouldn’t want floating around, but could find a use for from time to time.
on February 6th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
You’re a smoker who is allergic to smoke,huh? Since there is no such thing, you must be a troublemaker., You neeed a whuppin’.
on February 6th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Not liking smoke at all times is a matter of preference, not biology.
on February 20th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Your lease has been breached, have the landlord
take care of this or bolt.
on June 14th, 2008 at 12:14 am
They’re polluting your flat, they know it and they don’t care. Improve your environment and get some maybe considerate neighbours - tell the landlady.
It’s not ratting - what loyalty do you owe to someone who won’t even speak to you?
You have a better relationship with the landlady. Maybe she deserves to know that someone is cheating her. If I was letting a flat I wouldn’t want it left stinking and nicotine-stained. Then there’s the fire risk too.