I had already shopped around and knew which one I wanted--from Sam's Club. Best price for the kind of mattress we wanted.
Of course, Mark didn't want to pay the delivery fee, but since we don't have a truck/big SUV and neither does anyone we know, I told him to stop being cheap and just pay the fee. But he insisted, and he strapped that baby on top of our little car and drove it home (I put on sunglasses and hid my face. Some BYU girls walking down the street pointed at our car and laughed, and Mark stuck his head out the window and laughed back at them. That actually was pretty funny.). So we brought our new purchase home without paying any delivery fees or getting pulled over, so I have to give him that one.
At least we used rope.Speaking of cheapness...
Our landlord is having new doors installed on all the units, and while they are very nice doors, I am a little annoyed he got rid of the screen doors. I liked having a screen door. While the note the landlord left us said that he was having a friend install the doors, I don't think his little handyman friend thinks too highly of him.
He was this little old Cambodian man with a very thick accent, and he was pretty funny. Now, I learned pretty quick that our landlord is a DIY kind of guy when I realized that to get the outlet to work in the bathroom the lights had to be turned out, and Mark says the texture on the wall looks like it was done by an amateur. He also comes around and mows the lawns himself once a month, and hand delivers the gas bill instead of mailing it like a normal person. But our little Cambodian friend was like, "What kind of landlord mows own lawn?! You ever see that? He very cheap."
The landlord didn't even want to pay the guy to paint the wood around the doors (now bereft of screen doors, boohoo), saying he'd do it himself.
The handyman wanted us to realize just how rich our landlord was. I was like, "Yeah, I know. I send him a check every month."
But, our landlord does keep the place up really well. I almost feel like something is wrong because I'm not calling in work requests every other week to report some new disaster.
It is nice to not live in a place that is constantly threatening to tumble down on top of us.
Still, I do wish the the guy would spring for bigger water heaters. I haven't shaved my legs all week.
