On 12/19/02, Kay wrote:
> Depending on how sensitive you are - do watch out for the
> grout. They do make less toxic grout than the regular.
>
Well, great. And where exactly IS this "less toxic grout?"
Can't anyone point me to a BRAND NAME or a source, or anything
CONCRETE? This is like being told, "to avoid damage and
disease, THINK GREEN! Yes! Try to use LESS TOXIC STUFF! Look
for it!" and it is extremely frustrating.
Like many Seattle residents, I am dealing with an incompetent,
ignorant, frankly STUPID manager - hired by the vicious
management company that runs these apartments for the Owner,
who sits bubbling in a pool of slime somewhere, feeding on the
tears of working people.
I am fighting cancer, and and I really should not be working
with toxic stuff. I am desperate to find a less-toxic
alternative before our incompetent, shifty-eyed manager has to
deal with it. I want to live.
If I ask for my rundown bathroom to be re-grouted, I will get
one of the following, plus a bonus:
1. NO ACTION. EVER. It simply will not be dealt with, except
for the rent increase which will be explained as being "do too
the Manny extensatorious repare's Reqired too make hear
Reecentley."
2. The cheapest possible "plumber," a moronic glue-sniffing
hick who'll come in and looks at me dazed and wall-eyed when I
say the word "toxic," then look around panicked, and mumble
something about "this stuff is pritty good, people like it."
He will open a can of DDT and plutonium and something labeled
CARCINOGENIC IN ANY AMOUNT: DO NOT USE and smear it all over my
bathroom. He will contaminate everything, and still miss
hitting the area between the tiles in the shower. He will
bellow "huh?" when I ask him to leave so I can go to sleep, and
the tiles will tremble. The mold holding them together will
crumble from the toxic fumes of the DO NOT USE stuff. The wall
will cave in. The entire apartment will flood from the broken
plumbing exposed by the crumbling wall, and the building will
collapse. They will raise my rent. Other Seattleites will
wonder why I can't be nice about this, since we "have it so
good."
3. Greasy-eyed suspicion that I "did something" in the ten
years I've lived here to "cause" the 30-year-old grout to fail.
A retaliatory rent increase. Creepy wheezing like a cartoon
ferret, and bad dreams.
BONUS: A RENT INCREASE JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT.
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