Dear Customers,

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

Please have your roommates refrain from having sex in the next room while I'm on location at your house.

Never visiting you again,

~Your tech.

Comments

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Ew.

Might I offer you a cup of brain bleach, a good stiff brush, and a bottle of the booze of your choice?

[kuangning]

I am trying to envision one adult attempting to restrict other adults from having sex in (presumably) their own space and home just because the first adult has a service person visiting. I think this falls squarely under the category of "I know it's squicky, but honestly, nothing I can do."

Agreed.

[nebbors.livejournal.com]

Much as I hate to admit it;
Your job is to go into that house and do Your Job.
Unless you can honestly say it is hazardous to your health (needles on the floor).
Deal with it. I recommend a good stiff flushing with your favorite alchoholic beverage.

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no kidding.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

I dunno, "GIVE IT A FUCKING REST, THERE'S A SERVICEPERSON HERE" has always worked for me.

Not to mention, "SHUT THE FUCK UP, THE REST OF US DON'T NEED TO HEAR YOU SCREWING". But I lived in share houses for about a decade. Been there, done that.

[kuangning]

Only if I didn't then need to be on good terms with my housemates would I ever do that. And if it were I and my fiance having sex in our space that we pay for and our housemate dared to say anything along those lines, let alone like that, we'd be leaving in short order and our rent money would be going with us. As long as we pay rent and we're not disturbing your sleep or having sex in the common areas in front of you, we'll be the ones who decide when we have sex. It's one of the definite perks of being grown ass adults instead of teenagers fumbling around in some shared housing that Mommy and Daddy paid for.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Well, that kind of thing is generally yelled with some sense of humour. And I don't think I implied I'd be telling people NOT to have sex at all, just to give it a rest in terms of volume.

"Grown-ass" adults don't usually feel the need to have ostentatiously loud sex that can be heard in common areas, much less when strangers are in the house.

One of the responsibilities of being an adult is to engage in your sex life with some discretion - if you want to have noisy sex, have it when no-one else is around, or find your own place. SRSLY.

[kuangning]

If we're paying rent, it is our own place, is the point. And if you brought a tech in while we were busy in our space, that's your tech's problem and maybe yours. Indiscreet is making love in the common areas or forgetting to shut the door. That you can hear us in the room right next to us, which is what the post stated? Tough luck, but you'll get over it. If it helps, feel free to pretend you're at a hotel, in the room next door to newlyweds you don't know. Or would you expect them to cater to you, too?

[shirenomad]

So, you're saying you can be as loud as the hell you want when you're making love?

*giggles.*

[kuangning]

You have no idea how much I wanted to quote that but didn't. But yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. ;)

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's extremely rude. At the very least, they should have offered to let you join in.

[mix-hyenataur.livejournal.com]

Couldn't, since I didn't have a port multiplier.

[fragbert.livejournal.com]

That's going to metaquotes!

[lunatic59.livejournal.com]

Couln't you have just hacked in to the backdoor for a quick download? ....um ... where did I put that bourbon?

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

Now *I* need that brain bleach.

[lunatic59.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with remoting in to the router to eliminate the need for an on-site service call? Or did you think there was a different meaning?


***thinking about it***


EEEEWWWWWW! (hehehehe)

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

C'mon, in this community? You know that's where our brains went.

[thenakedcat.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that Faramir is the BEST possible choice to go with that icon text. Gondorian daddy issues FTW.

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, totally.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Thus the need to carry a megaphone and media player with a wide assortment of extraordinarily strange noises on it.

[attackgypsy.livejournal.com]

When I was doing AC repair years ago, we had an apartment complex under maintainance contract. We'd have a crew there every day, and we'd all pull at least one day a week there. The systems were so simple it took 15 minutes to do the maintainance on them.

We notified the next set of apartments on the Friday before that we'd be there on Monday. We knocked on one door, and there she was, robe gaping open, and letting us in. He was coming out of the bedroom with a robe on himself. I told him later 'I hope we didn't interrupt anything" He said "Yeah, you did. But its cool. The AC hasn't been working right, and we just want it fixed. We can wait."

We giggled through the entire service call.

[laurajpetri.livejournal.com]

Wait until it's over then laugh loudly. "Is THAT all you got?" or if talking to the customer "Is that all he's got?"