< Cagney Mode>

There's this tenant, see?

Well, she had this visitor, see? The visitor parked his car in the middle of the parking lot, see? So, see, that's against the rules. The manager has instructions from me to have any vehicle so parked towed on sight.

So, this manager, see, she's pretty nice. She's the nice one, see? I'm the mean one. I'm the one she gets when being nice don't get it, see?

So, she thinks she knows who the owner of this car is visiting, see? So she sees the (teenage) daughter of the tenant, and tells the girl that if she knows whose car that is, she should ask them to move it 'cause otherwise it'll get towed, see? So this guy comes and moves th' car.

So this tenant, see, she comes out of the apartment and starts screaming at the manager, see? I'm not sure what about, but it apparently involved a bunch of invective, see? And as part of it, the tenant said she was going to report the manager to me, see?

So some other tenants heard all this and thought it was funny. So the next day in a grocery store one of the tenants saw the tenant who had done the screaming and made a comment to her, see? And the tenant who'd done th' screaming screamed some more at the tenant who'd heard the screaming, see?

So, the manager tells me all about this and about how th' tenant is going to call me to report the manager, see. So I tells the manager, I says, "but you know you're supposta just have those cars towed. Why'd you try t' find who owns it? Also, you don't have to take the abuse from anyone; why didn't you issue her a warning?"

Now, y'gotta know that warnings are serious business. You can only get two warnings. The third time there is an incident, you get evicted, see? And there's no time frame. It ain't three events in a year; it's three events. Period.

So, that shoulda been th' end of it, see?

But, this tenant, see, she called me. To report the manager. Because the manager had no business sending the daughter to have the car moved; the manager should have come over herself, see. And, of course, see, although th' car wasn't in a parking space, "it wasn't in anyone's way", see.

Now, me, I acts all surprised and I says, see, "you're right! I have to talk to her 'cause she ain't doin her job. She shoulda had th' car towed without warning." So this tenant, she says "but the car wasn't in the way" and I says "but it wasn't in a parking space and if its parked anyplace but in a parking space we tow immediately."

So, this tenant, she says "Yeah, the manager isn't doing her job."

Go figure. And the tenant probably figures she won the exchange with the manager, see?