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I'm going to put up my mover abused pole. Burrs and all. So, I go to remove a light fixture... find it to be UNREMOVABLE, decide to take off the shade and tape it to the ceiling. I use my stud finder, it doesn't see joists. I tap test. It all sounds the same. I nail test, and 10 nail holes later, I call my leasing office and ask how far apart the goddamned joists are, cause I wanna install a PLANT HOOK. She says, "Oh, we can install that plant hook for you" I say, "..What if it's not a plant hook. What if it's a DANCE POLE" She says, "Oh, I dance!" I say, "..Cool. Where do you dance, blah blah blah, now I know that you'll ease this process for me, cool blah blah blah we should dance some time NOW ABOUT THAT INSTALLATION" She says, "I'll send someone over tomorrow" Today, someone comes over. And they're like, "..What are we doing here?" Me.... "I need to know where a joist is" Him, "..Oh, you need to hang something?" Me,""I need to put up a dance pole" Him, "But the people upstai--" Me, "There are no screws" Him, "I need to get my stud finder." Me, thinking, "You mean you don't know that stud finders DON'T WORK ON THE CEILING HERE?" Him, thinking, "I just need to get out of this house so I can ask my supervisor if I really should be telling this woman where to put her dance pole" He leaves. 300 years, or maybe an hour later, someone else rings my doorbell. I need to fill out a stupid form. An, "Intent to Alter" form. I'M NOT ALTERING ANYTHING. So I go to fill out a form. I state it's COMPLETELY REMOVABLE. and that I intend to REMOVE MANY TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF MY LEASE. That I have REMOVED MANY TIMES IN SIMILAR BUILDINGS and that the most it has REMOVED IS ONE OF 3000 LAYERS OF PAINT. ... I turn it in, watch him read it. His face tells me that I will be declined, but he goes through the process of turning it into his boss. .... I am going to whoop these people's asses. I am going to install it in the neighborhood center with it's exposed joist. I am going to whoop. whoop. whoop. ass.

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