Proper Condolence For A Petite Pet

# 22 Real Estate Man

The Warwick Apartments were Philadelphia’s first skyscraper..

This point is relevant because the amount of floors above, is in proportion to the amount of shit you get below, if the main drain backs up.( dealing with a vastly different subject but same concept of Socrates’ famous “And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make”).

It’s a physical law that the overflow from above will exit through the nearest opening above the blockage. In this case the obstruction was in the main drain servicing 7 bathrooms above. That’s a lot of….

Real Estate Man’s story:

It was a Monday on a cold day in March. After a rough weekend, I staggered into my office hoping for a slow day. Regretfully, it was not to be. Problems started when I checked my office voicemail for the first time since Friday.

On the voicemail were a series of messages by the tenants in Apt #14 on the first floor of the Warwick. The messages were left by David, a fellow whose complaints in the past must have been so tactfully stated that I can’t remember if there were any. David’s roommate/partner ironically, also named David, was the same way. As tenants and as humans, they were a pleasure to know. I couldn’t even tell which one was which in their…