It's been three days now since our boilers in our room have stopped working. We live on the top floor and the floors are very cold. Even now, my fingers feeling the chill while we type. We've been calling the landlord's representitive for three days now, with him reassuring us that they're sending boiler men on the way. This is bullcrap! We haven't even spent one week here and now we get to shiver? It just started snowing for the first time yesterday! What do I pay $699 a month for? I'm pretty sure heats included in that price! Gurr. And why do they keep saying they're going to do something when they haven't? It's so rude and ignorant! Our money, GET TO IT. I'm pretty sure there's laws regarding apartments having to have adequate heat. Worse yet, I'm too anxious to call the landlord. My boyfriend has been doing it. I shouldn't be nervous about calling him, it's HIS JOB and MY money. I'm just so angry right now! Why can't I just progress in life without some silly obstacle? And hasn't anyone else in this building complained? There must be 20 other residents!
I also feel badly because I was supposed to call my Uncle today but I couldn't because I was too shy. For some reason, certain family members I feel odd about calling – since I guess correspondence has always been done by parents. Even when I go to my Aunt's, I don't feel like an adult and I have a difficult time relating to any family member from my childhood as a friend or an 'equal'. I understand that sounds weird. This even applies to my parents! I can't drink with them (so they think I don't drink which isn't true), and yeah. Anyway. I was supposed to call him because he was going to drop off a table at my apartment so we could eat. But last night Mom and Dad told me that he was working night shifts and that it was better for me to contact him on the weekend. Apparently, unable to get a hold of me, he just dropped the table off on the front porch, and his daughter (my cousin), told me he thought that I had forgotten. I feel terrible for not calling him because I mostly did it based on my anxiety! It maybe a good thing, though. Uncle is early 50's and walking up three flights of stairs with the table set may have been a little painful. This weird nervousness around family may make them think I'm snotty or just don't want to be their friend's, when this simply isn't true. I wish I could explain to them. I don't understand why I have this weird anxiety!!!
I'm going to keep feeling frustrated until they fix these heaters. Guurrrr and burrr!!!!!!
Utilities are a basic right to any tenants living in an apartment. You have the right to with hold rent until they get that fixed.
Don't feel bad about being nervous around your family. I feel the exact same way when I'm around my extended family. I also have anxiety when talking on the phone, so I know I would have felt the same way you did when you thought you had to call your uncle. One of the reasons I tend to not like holidays is because I usually have to go eat at a relative's house, and there's always tons of family there. Sometimes I feel bad for feeling like this, but I just have to keep reminding myself that it's my social anxiety, and it doesn't mean I love them any less.
i feel the same about my family. i feel that im not the same as them AT ALL. and i always obsess about why and how they are different to me. drives me nuts. i wish i could fit in but i cant …